Driving on the highway, we have already often seen the impressive airplanes of the technology museum in Sinsheim. We liked to follow the invitation, for the annual family excursion to Sinsheim on Saturday, October 13th, 2007. Our tripp was this time organized by Franz and Ulrike. A group of 12 adults and 3 children had met at the entrance at 10 o'clock. We began our excursion with a time travel in the 3D-dinosaur-cinema about the beginnings of the automobiles up to airplanes of every kind.
The morning high fog still let us be a little cold in the queue for the inspection of the supersonic jets. But it was certainly worth to see how it looked inside. We were surprised how crampedly it shut in these high-tech-airplanes. A look into the cockpits with the thousands little switches on the narrowest room let us hardly think that, the pilot still could keep the full summary. Some used a slide to reach the automobiles of the airplane exhibition again. Everybody could look around until lunch-time in the museum halls and admire his childhood-dreams into reality. Something was offered by everything: motorcycles, racing cars from all decades of Ferrari to Mercedes, special exhibition from 50s with minis in all variations, engines, steam-driven engines, electrical-fruit-machines and so on. Our childern admired a real russian astronaut-suit just like gigantic steam-driven engines from scrapped power stations.
We met for lunch together in the attached restaurant at 12.30 am. The fog had dispersed to our lunch dessert and we even could sit outside at a pleasant fall sun. News from different family branches were exchanged, acquaintances were deepened and further contacts agreed. Projects running this one like Internet appearance of the „Familiengemeinschaft“, the next family magazine as well as the coming family meeting in 2008 in Salzstetten were also discussed.
The second museum round in the afternoon led us into the impressive world of the 3D-cinemas with insights into the dinosaur time and the sub-water world. After the inspection of the next hall with the elegant yank-sledges from 50s and 60s, with Cadillacs and Chevrolets we took a look at many scrapped tanks and armed forces vehicles also in the outer area. The fascination of this military equipment and war scenes offered a nearly nightmarish view. Particularly the questions of our children, where the bullet holes come from or whether the pilot of the airplane wreck has survived , let us adults come into brooding anyway.
For common coffee and cake we met again at 4 p.m. We enjoyed the view of the impressive airplane over us at a blue sky and after that we went to our homes.