Thursday, August 23, 2018

We Left, 8.14.2018

Our escape from the US followed last minute frantic packing and frenetic preparations to leave for Europe for the next 5-10 months. We agreed to fly to Frankfurt, Germany with our oldest daughter, A, our first grand-daughter, I, and their dog Finn as our son-in-law W went ahead two weeks prior to start a new academic job.
We left PDX with Burgerville milkshakes for a 10 hour flight. Our 14 month old granddaughter was pretty excited but fell asleep even before take-off, waking just in time for a brief introduction to airplane movies animation. It was good that there was still food left so she could feed every animal in Lion King. Finn pretty much slept, we pretty much did not.



We arrived a bit blurry with 3 suitcases, a stroller, a crib, a regular backpack, a carry-on suitcase, a dog carrier, 2 day packs and a purse, basically full of half of everything A and W own.


Will met us and loaded the large rental car with all of the suitcases plus A, I and Finn and we took the train to Saarbrucken- our home for a month and their home for the next 2 years.

Entering the Frankfurt train station, it looked promising from the start.




Train vs Autobahn?
We arrived about the same time, and after some ineffective walking efforts with misspelled streets on google maps, they picked us up.

We came to our air B&B-England at Chez Josephine, (somewhat thematic? next door is Caribes).
Despite our preparedness, we then showered with dish soap.

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