All of our German friends keep asking "why aren't you blogging" and the answer is, we have not had any Internet for a week. Today we are in Hamburg for the District Conference and finally can make a new entry. The week has been fantastic but now we are all experiencing "overload." So many new people and places! Plön was beautiful and our hosts were all great. We saw a gorgeous country estate of Price Hesse, visited the Plön Castle, had a short but fascinating visit to Lübeck, and visited a Museum in what used to be East Germany which showed what the old Iron Curtain was like. Next it was on to Otterndorf where we were finalize able to stay together in the same place; that was nice. We had vocational days, traveled to a moor for a nature lecture, unfortunately all in German, but the scenery was beautiful and our hosts translated some of it. The next day was excellent with a tour of a Naval Air Base, a visit to a Air Museum featuring Zeppelins, and a visit to the Emigrants Museum in Bremerhaven. Our host Hans-Peter Weber took us for a swim, bought us pizza, and left us alone for the evening. What a nice man! Today was very long - getting up very early, a train ride to Hamburg (without coffee!!!), the team walked around Hamburg and I spent time at the Conference. We ate lunch with the outgoing German team and Wolfgang Janus and did our presentation this afternoon. We got a chance to relax and will be attending the festivities tonight before moving on to Bordesholm sometime late.

The old Iron Curtain.

On the Moor.