Hamburg mach Spass!

I am just at the Hamburg airport preparing for my flight to Zurich and a reunion with my family.  I barely slept last night so excited.

Martin Luther at St. Michel

Just a minute to write, I wasn't able to log on while I was in Hamburg but I survived the HORRIBLE security experience in Tel Aviv, which left me in tears and which will also take me a long time to recover from.  I have a new appreciation for the American ideal of being innocent until proven guilty which is not the mod is operandi of the Israeli airport security.  After two hours of interrogation and inspection, I was ready to leave without looking back.

Thank goodness for the respite in Hamburg.  I will post photos later, but I have spent the last three days with my German sister, Karen, and we have had so much fun talking together, visiting markets, cooking, taking a tour of lovely Hamburg and just relaxing.  Every morning as well I was able to bike with her children, Alex and Sophie to school and take in the pastoral beauty of their small town on the outskirts of Hamburg.  I even managed to shop in a supermarket all by myself so I could find ingredients to prepare an American meal for the Ehm family.

I have gotten to practice my German quite a bit, but it still has a long way to go, I considered it small victories when I could make a small conversation with Karen's children.

Now to Zurich and I then will complete the last leg of this journey.  I have grown, and learned the people of this world are not so different, we all have our concerns, we all have our problems and we all need one another.

I will post photos hopefully tonight from my little hotel in Appenzell.

Neither have aged a day.