Kalkar!

This is the cooling tower at the Kalkar nuclear reactor, its more than 148 feet high, this nuclear reactor never ever worked…... It was completed in 1985, but there were so many protests in the country that the government in 1995 decided to close Kalkar for ever and now it’s turned into a “Theme park”.

Friday afternoon after school we immediately left for Germany to Kalkar where Grandma and Grandpa gave their 50^th anniversary party. Man what did it take long before we finally arrived there; it took us 3 hours to get there, one traffic-jam after another. When we arrived there Grandpa and Grandma were waiting for us at the entrance of the hotel.

After we had put the luggage in our rooms we immediately went to the restaurant where we had a drink and a nice bite to eat. Man there was lots and lots of food and you could choose what ever you wanted to eat and you could go as much to those food-tables as you wanted. I went back every time to those tables, sometimes to get a nice fish and sometimes to get a nice ice-cream…..... mmmmmm....so great man!

After awhile Ruud and Femke and the children also arrived and we all had a nice dinner. After dinner we gave Grandpa and Grandma their present. We had made a very large bride and groom basket with in it 50 presents for all the years they are married. Grandpa and Grandma loved it!

The present we gave Grandpa and Grandma....

After the present we have been to the cellar of the hotel where we had a drink.

Here we are in the cellar bar of the hotel......

Saterday morning we had a delicious breakfast, there was so much to eat that it was imposable to try everything… .. mmmmm.... it was all great.

After the breakfast there was a guided tour around the park. It was a pity I could not follow the guide it was all in German I couldn’t understand a word of it. I however, did see the cooling tower (photograph 1) from the inside which was pretty cool man, there was a great echo in there!

The cooling tower from the inside... it's completely empty now...

The upper part of the tower seen from the inside of the tower…......

After the visit to the tower I have been with Kim, Roy and Michiel to the theme park and we went in the roller coaster more than 6 times, that’s so cool man!

Here are Dad and Grandma leaving the tower and here you’ll have a very nice view over the entire park.

Here we are all in the roller coaster; I’m sitting in the second carriage with the dark pullover on.... Man that went fast!

Afterwards are we went racing… man that went fast. Here I’m in the I first car.

After that we watched Ruud and Roy they went drag racing. Those racecars go so fast man they go from 0 to 63 miles per hour in 3 seconds and that on a special track. That is so cool man I have never seen that before. You must really drive that car accelerate and change gears by yourself, you really drive a real racecar. To bad that I wasn’t allowed to drive such a car you’ll have to be 15 to do so. Roy was lucky; he just turned 15 a few months ago so he was allowed to drive! Roy did very well; he became first in one race, great eh?

Here Roy in its own racecar just beside his father... Roy won that race....

After the dragrace Michiel, Rand Femke went Quad driving all through the mud......

This photograph was taken by Mom just before we went home and the exit from the theme park.

Man it really was fantastic weekend, much food and drinks the entire day as much as you liked and riding the roller coaster... what a great, great time I had.

Grandpa and Grandma Thanks for the fantastic, great, great weekend, I want to go back there!

But now I’ll go upstairs to bed… must rise at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, yes just an ordinary school day tomorrow…. bye…see you later!