Wednesday, 25/11/14
Day 8, Düsseldorf

We all awoke in our German houses, excited and ready for our day trip. We had a day off school (yay!) and instead we went too......

PHANTASIALAND (fan-tah-si-a)! A winter themed, well..... Theme park.
We all still had to go to first period, so a few other students and I went to an English class, all happy we could finally understand what was being said by the teacher. But we all couldn't wait until the clock hit quarter past 9, which is when we could finally leave. Another train and bus ride, and we were finally at Phantasialand. We were greeted by a massive carousal and snow! Already, everyone was taking photos and enjoying the scenery.

Everyone split up to do their own things. A large group of students went with the teachers to explore the entire park and go on almost every single ride. And then the unadventurous ones (me) and the ones who wanted to go at their own pace wandered off elsewhere, doing as they pleased. The best ride there was obviously the log ride, and I have the photo to prove that Harry and I were having SO MUCH FUN.
What mostly made the theme park was it's scenery and winter and Christmas setting. Sure, there weren't as many thrill packed rides as say, Movie world or Dreamworld (phew), but the visuals were absolutely stunning. Speaking of visuals, we all got to see a great 4D movie. Yep, that's right, 4D. The movie, unfortunately in German, was not only in 3D, but we wonderfully greeted with sprays of water and blasts of air to our faces and bodies. Because who doesn't want that when watching a movie about pirates?

Finally, once all was done, we met up for a picture run, which was basically the teachers herding us around to get pictures. We all jumped onto the carousel to end the night with the something. We were picked up from the Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof by our host families, and then all underwent whatever activities we did with our families that night.

We all fell asleep, once again happy that tomorrow would be another adventurous day - in Cologne. Hmm..... Must smell pretty great there to be called Cologne!
No … No one? Well I thought it was funny …

~Troy