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Well it was something like a beautiful day in Stuttgart yesterday. Just kidding, I wouldn’t know. I stayed up until 4am and then slept in until 4:50pm when I was woken up. But somehow last night I went to bed at 1am. Of course this morning I woke up at 5:30am. Great! Its pretty chilly today, about 55 degrees F but at least its not raining. I watched 50 First Dates (always surprises me that its a good movie, not just decent). Then I went for a bike ride to check out the town. Pretty cool I think. I took some video:

I also saw a very “safe” park

If you can’t tell, there are a lot of things to tilt on. I remember all the good times I had on the merry-go-round back in elementary school. When I left, they took it out. But seriously that’s where we’d play every day. Those things are so dangerous (I guess) but kids need the opportunity to get hurt. I never fell off the thing. I think it probably helped me with my balance.

A couple views of this cool, white building.

And the proverbial smart car

Then later that day, we went to an art museum called Staatsgalerie (State Art Gallery).

It was pretty cool. They had Picasso, Pissaro, Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, Degas, Madrian, and lots of German artists too. Also, a lot of Swabian ones. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Swabia is a historic region in southwestern Germany, including what is now the southern portion of Baden-Württemberg Land (state) and the southwestern part of Bavaria Land in Germany, as well as eastern Switzerland and Alsace. The Suebi are one of the five original tribes of Germany. Here in Stuttgart, you will often find Swabian dishes at restaurants. This tradition adds a different element to visiting Stuttgart than other Germany cities.

In the front of the museum, we saw this guy:

Relative!

And in the parking garage we saw this cool bottle/light display: