Beautiful Fall

It's coming to the end of a beautiful Fall day here. We wish we were in Austin at Dean's blessing. Sorry, we hope he didn't scream through the whole thing like some of his forebears.

We have officially arrived in our apartment. You know this is true because we have three locks on our door (one is a chain kind), a peephole in our door and we have a "kaufwagen" to go to the store and get groceries. Hopefully a picture of Ginny will appear and you can see this wonderful apparatus. Actually we are now part of those of our same age. It can hold enough to fill your refrigerator and then some. The refrigerators here aren't very big so you get to go shopping at least twice a week. We were carrying our groceries home from the store in our hands and arms but they got heavy so we resorted to doing it the way most of the people here do. Saves the back and arms.

We've also attached a picture of the method for drying our sheet. The washing machine works great (takes about 2 hours to wash the sheets and pillow cases and that's all that can go in the machine) but with no dryer and the temperatures outside, the posters on the bed work great to dry our sheet so we can use it that night. Where there's a will, there must be a way. Yesterday was a busy day (that means we were on the move the whole day. A new couple arrived early Saturday morning and they will be going to Heidelberg to work in the Institute program there. They needed to be oriented to the mission before they got on their way to Heidelberg so the office staff met them at President Ninow's home where she had prepared breadfast for all. Yes, the Ninow's are very busy to say the least.

In the afternoon we had the chance to just wander around in the old city of Frankfurt and see what's there. This was our first chance to do that so I'll try and put a few pictures for you to see what some of Frankfurt looks like. I think if you click on the picture it will get bigger and you can see more if you like. These pictures are of Roemer Platz (Roman Place) because the Romans where here for quite a while and had quite an influence on this city, its politics and religion.









There were a lot of things going on at the square and because the weather was pretty good a lot of people were out going for walks and just wandering around, (like us). I'll try and get a couple more pictures here just for practice.











We found a really fun antique and new Steif teddy bear store. Ginny can be seen with her new best friend. Pretty amazing stuff there. On the right is Charlemagne. He had quite an influence here on bringing together a lot of political and church delegations. I wish I had listened better in those history classes but it was hard to relate about stuff so long ago. I guess when we get to meet them we'll do a lot better listening.