Many of us have arrived in Berlin. Steve and Sig Routh, who arrived in Germany to visit family, had a great time in the countryside, and now are at Pension Peters, a B & B where many of us are staying. Also here are Kathy, Paula, Judy, Sue, Pattie, Jan and Pastor Andy. Sue, Pattie, Jan and Pastor Andy had quite an adventure getting here. We (this is being written by Pastor Andy) were on our plane from Philadelphia to Germany when, 3 hours into the flight, there was a problem with the navigational system and the plane turned back to Philadelphia. At 11 pm in Philly, we were told the flight was cancelled, and we'd have to call an 800 number to rebook. The agent on the line told me that the earliest we could leave was on Saturday - either that or ask for a ticket refund. When we searched for a hotel, we found that all the rooms in Philadelphia were booked - we ended up 20 miles away in New Jersey, arriving at the hotel at 230 am. We are very thankful for Bill Snider, our travel agent, who got us out of our Saturday flight onto a plane from Newark, NJ, the very next day. In order to get to Newark, we had to fly out of Philadelphia at 930 am, which meant leaving the hotel at 7 am, which meant we had very little sleep that day.
We arrived in Berlin at 8 yesterday morning and had another setback - Patties luggage did not make the plane. 24 hours later, it still has not arrived. Still, we enjoyed our first day in Berlin. Judy, Andy and Jan took a walking tour of East Berlin - a fascinating blend of sight-seeing and history as we saw the Brandenburg gate, Museum island, the memorial for Jewish victims of the 3rd reich, the Reichstag, and much, much more. Kathy and Paula went on the hop on, hop off bus tour. So did Steve and Sig, though we did not meet up with each other until this (Saturday) morning. Pattie and Sue had a tour of one of the opera houses by Sue's cousin, who lives in Berlin.
The tour begins tomorrow with a bus ride to Wittenburg, where Luther lived and taught. Today, again, we go our separate ways to sightsee in Berlin. We'll need to experiment on how to post pictures - when we figure that out, we'll have sights for you to see. More later. - Pastor Andy
The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.
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