Germany

This is my second attempt to post today. The first got lost in cyberspace. I am
still tired and very grouchy from the two day trip.
Yesterday we arrived in Germany, at 6am. We had left Santa Barbara at 3am on Friday. We had a bathroom break, got our boarding passes and finally left the airport,with our guides at 9am. Those of you that know me know I was plenty "nuggie"
after three hours of messing around. We were in Frankfort, a beautiful, clean city.
We first went to St. Barthlome's church. Construction was started around 860 and the
church was finished in 1994. From there we went to breakfast, at a cafe and had
a beautiful euro breakfast of fruit, sliced meats and cheeses and fresh baked bread.
A welcome change from airline, airport food!.Then we had a couple hours of free time
to shop. Yes I found a beautiful mall with an H&M and wonderful shops! Yes the
American Express card is ACCEPTED everywhere.
Later, we meet up as a group and toured a small mosque in the Turkish community.
We learned some basics of Islam and meet one of the Iman's. He told us that his
mosque does NOT condone violence in the name of Islam and that they practice peace.
It was really very moving and beautiful.
Now for the drama part. Two people did not follow our group rules, one, a guy just
went off and did his thing, another, a woman told us she was going to stay in the
airport. She did NOT make our flight and we have not seen her since. Her luggage
was checked through so you know this delayed our departure, while they removed
her luggage. Also, the planes departing for the middle east our segregated and boarded away from the main terminal! There is plenty of extra security. We were
told that "jenelle" is in Germany and safe, that she is doing what she wants/ Way
too weird and I don't believe word one of it.. All for now.
Suzi