A Day in Paradise!

Today Tanja and Jürgen took Sophia, Tanja’s sister Sonja and myself to a place called “Badewelt Sinsheim” or swimming pool world in the city of Sinsheim.  It was about an hour and a half drive from Urbach.
You all have GOT to check out their website ( http://www.badewelt-sinsheim.de/ ) to see how pretty it was! It was an indoor paradise. They imported LIVE palm trees that are all around the pool.
In the pool has a bar that you can swim up to and sit at and the seats are even under water too! When you first arrive, they give you these wrist-bands that have sensors in them that they can scan at the bar to ‘add to you tab’ that you pay at the end of the day.
There was also a way to get outside from in the pool.  Outside was another pretty big pool area that had a lazy river in one part and these awesome things that shoot water with a TON of pressure – it was like a neck massage (aka HEAVEN!)
From the main, big pool, there was also an entryway that lead to the kiddy pool and also to the pool-pool.  (I swam laps for the first time in two years!)
There are also 3 other pools: one that is Dead Sea salt water, another is Magnesium water and the other is Calcium water.  Let me tell you – my skin is glowing right now (in a good way).  It feels so sofffft.  The only part that sucked was the cut on my finger in the salt pool. LOL!  But these ‘health pools’ were pretty dang cool, if you ask me!
Through ANOTHER entryway, you could get to the spa area which is ‘off-limits’ to children, so Sonja and I went so we could get to the saunas. You had to scan your wrist-band to get into this area and go through a revolving door thing.  We walked through the door and then… right there in front of me… OLD MAN’S NAKED BUTT!!!  Apparently we were in the ‘nude’ area.  I thought I can handle this.  It’s Germany.  This is normal here.  However, then I learned that bathing suits ARE NOT PERMITTED in the saunas!!!!  EEEEEK!!!  So, everyone, what did Keely do?  Guesses?? Guesses!?!?  That’s right – I hugged my towel and never let go! Towels were allowed (thank goodness)!! I had that towel clinging to me like a vacuum sealed bag around a steak!  I was totally cool with other people being nude (okay, not totally cool, but I kept my cool) but this girl was NOT going nude today.  Sorry.  I know that I was the weird one in the saunas for having my towel, but I did not care – it was not leaving my skin!  Talk about a security blanket, jeepers!
Anyway, the saunas were lovely – they were all SO paradise-y.  One had a theater in it with nature videos, another was deserty with a cow-skull and everything (but dark, not bright), another was the “coffee sauna” (yes, coffee.  Every now and then they come in and make coffee and serve it to patrons, however there were WAY too many naked bodies stuffed in that room come coffee time, so I skipped the free coffee today).
There was also a really nice restaurant in this spa area – they had fresh salads and mine was very delicious.  It was nice, but a little strange every time a buck-naked human being walked by… with everything hanging out.
In the end, it was a very lovely day.  The paradise of it all was very nice.  It was like Germany’s own Hawaii.  😉

Until next time…