Travel Day

Thursday we left DFW at 3:55 pm on Lufthansa Airlines, which we highly recommend, by the way. Great experience with them! We had a direct flight to Frankfurt, so we spent about 10 hours in the air.

Matt and Suzanne picked us up at home with Sonic and some sappy story about how we've seen each other pretty much every 10 days, if not more, for 7 years. Thank goodness they are coming to visit in July so we don't have to wait the entire 10 weeks to see them again! We certainly are thankful for great friends like the Speighties.

We are happy about boarding in a few minutes.

Probably somewhere over the northeast US. The sunset was really beautiful from the plane.

Our first glimpse of Germany. We got a very rainy 'willkommen' to the country!

We made it! It was 1:45 am Texas time, 8:45 am Frankfurt time. We hadn't slept on the plane at all, thanks to a screaming kid and a less than thoughtful person in front of us, but we watched lots of movies and were feeling good when we landed. That is an act of the Lord, truly.

Ok, now we've picked up our luggage, walked what felt like at least 10 miles with our bags to the very last train platform. We were less than thrilled, but still feeling ok. It was about 4 am Texas time to us by the time the train arrived.

We didn't take any pictures of the train. It was a relatively stressful experience with all our luggage and weren't even totally sure we were on the correct train (we were, thankfully). We weren't able to sit together and Ethan's seat mate was our luggage. Poor guy. It was a two hour train ride and we stayed awake the whole time because we didn't want to miss our stop.

Our landlord and his wife picked us up at the train station. They are amazing people, believers, and were very warm and welcoming. He is a doctor in Goettingen. They showed us around the apartment and told us where the nearest grocery store was. Then they left us to rest. Again, we are so thankful to God for the blessing they are already! 

The Williams family (our wonderful friends from SWBTS and church) came over last night and brought pizza, candy, flowers, ice cream and groceries. We had such fun hanging out with them and their precious kids. We had been awake for about 30 hours at this point, so we were pretty out of it. Thankfully, they understood!

Sleep was very welcome last night! We are still feeling pretty tired and out of it, so I'm looking forward to sleep again! Our friends, Kevin and Lauren, arrive tomorrow and we are so excited to see them!!