The Wonders of Germany, Part III

So while we in Germany, we went to Oberhausen to check out the new Christo exhibit. Here's the building it was in...

 It was called a gasometer, and was used to store the municipal gas works before it was repurposed by Christo for an art exhibit called Big Air Package. Don't believe me?

That's from the inside.

And that's looking down the outside.

So how tall is this thing? Here's a plaque at the highest level of the building, Level 11.

That's German. But it's tall in any language.

Google tells me that's over 360 feet. Now, there were two ways to travel up and down the exhibit. You can take the glass elevator along the inside of the wall of the gasometer. Or you can take the stairs up the outside. Guess which way Scott, Adam, Gray, and I took?

Yeah. Those are stairs.

The exercise way. Up! Then back down. Then take the glass elevator up... but you gotta walk down. 

That's at the beginning. The last trip was too graphic for the Internet.

So that's three times up 600 stairs. Yes. We counted. That was to occupy our minds on the last trip. You know, as distraction from the burning pains in our legs. 

That's the spirit!

We spent about an hour on the stairs, and two minutes looking at the actual exhibit.

Gang of Three! Plus a photobomb.

Scott wussed out on the last trip. He wanted to sip his tea and look at the art, rather than go up/down more stairs. I don't understand him sometimes. Anyway, he only took two trips so he couldn't pose in the Gang of Three picture.

Cheers,

Isaac