MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Wir Sind Hier!

Greetings from Germany! We arrived last Friday evening, after a long day of travel that began Thursday night (we lost 7 hours to the time zones). T., our host, was there at the Nuremberg airport to meet us and take us back to her home. After about a 20 min ride, we were there, meeting her husband K., and daughters A., L., and S (ages 9, 7 and 3). How strange to meet after we've been emailing back and forth about a home-swap since about last November. But it has all worked out great-- they are wonderful, friendly, generous people and we've had a great time socializing with them until they left for our house this afternoon. Our plan was to come to their house a few days early so we could all get to know each other. Now we will stay in each other's homes for a month.

Their house is beautiful-- we couldn't have asked for a better place to stay. I had wondered if there was a Scandinavian influence in the architecture here, because their house and all the houses we see in this part of Germany are very airy and light-filled with white-walls and blond wood, big rooms and lots of windows-- a very lovely Ikea style. Our hosts said that this is just a European style. There were 10 of us in the house for the last few days and we weren't crowded at all.

Friday night they treated us to a typical Bavarian supper-- wurst (sausages and lunch meats), brot (bread and rolls), cheese, veggies, etc. Sehr gut (very good)!

Our time clocks were all screwed up that night. I had hardly slept the night before on the plane, and I did fall asleep okay after we stayed up late talking, but then I woke up at 3 a.m. and couldn't fall asleep for 1.5 hours.

Well, I'll write more later (I'll try to blog several times a week at least, depending on our schedule)-- I want to send this off to let everyone know we are here and doing fine. I had thought we'd have more time this weekend to blog, but we are still figuring out our electronics and their computer. So donät mind any misspellings in this-- their keyboard has letters in different places than at home.

Don't forget to check out Bob's blog at http://albatross.org He will be putting pictures up there once we get everything figured out. For now, hallo from Germany!

Posted by sapphire at July 31, 2006 9:59 AM