Wörlitz!

Wörlitz was so neat! We had some awesome weather, for one, and we got to go run around in a massive park all day. Also, gondola rides, which are sort of terrifying but fun all the same.

The Wörlitzer Park was sort of the obsession of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau. He did a tour of Europe (which was the norm for all the fashionable rich kids in the 18th century) and came back to Germany wanting to create an English park of his very own. Thus the Wörlitzer Park was born: complete with a Temple of Flora, a palace, a baby Vesuvius, grottos, and a column Leopold brought back from Pompeii. Basically, it was like the 18th century German Disneyland; people would come there to learn more about other places they couldn't afford to visit otherwise and got to see Leopold's palace and the like.

Duke Leopold was a nice guy, wasn't he? His wife wasn't so happy about people touring her palace, so he built her her own house so she could go off and brood. Smart chap, our Leopold, haha.

So we had some nice weather, I got some good pictures, and we had a good time running around the park. Very good day!