Mercedes Museum, Mineral Baths and German "Corpus Christi" holiday

We toured the Mercedes Museum one day. It was really interesting and fun to see the all the cars and history. Comparing the Porsche and Mercedes museums we liked the Porsche better because it was more flashy, luxury cars and not as big. The Mercedes had 8 floors of cars! Really neat but a tad overwhelming and boring if you're not a huge car fan :)

The Pope-Mobile!

Naomi and her new friends!

Outside of the museum there was a lot of booths and tents set up for the German holiday weekend of "Corpus Christi". There were tons of people all over town all weekend for the event. They had really neat booths, an outdoor concert in the park and a huge children's event with learning activities.

            

             

At the children's event there were a lot of wooden, old-fashioned toys set up all over the park for kids to play with for free! There were wooden stilts, popsicle sticks for stacking/building (literally 11 ft high or more in the photo), a group building something out of recycled materials, this jungle-gym thing (shown above), air hockey without the air...etc. It was very fun!

On the weekend it was going to be very hot so we planned to go to the Mineral Baths for a nice soak!  We had a few errands to run before the swimming and it seemed like it was getting hotter by the minute. As we were grabbing lunch to take to the pools and eat there Chris remembered he forgot to pack his suit! We had gone to H&M for flip flops for Naomi and I earlier so we went back to grab a suit for Chris. Thank goodness for H&M! Most of the swimsuits are short European suits but we did find some nice long shorts for Chris. Then headed on our way! 

We went to Das Leuze Mineral Baths: "There are eight different bathing areas, with water temperatures of 20°C, 24°C, 30°C and 34°C, ranging from naturally cold to warm and relaxing.

The two healing springs have a high concentration of carbon and flow at 20° Celsius directly from the spring for swimming without chlorine. (All the pools above 20° C are heated artificially).

Das Leuze has 3 different healing and mineral springs, among them both carbonated water and briny water." We really loved the bubbly carbonated water and the kid area was really fun!