12:52 CET
Schoeffengrund
Guten Morgen! We landed at Frankfurt (am Main) airport at 8:45 CET. When we crossed over from England, I started to see white, puffy clouds. Well, actually make that one thick layer of puffy gray clouds blanketing what seemed to be all of western Europe. The morning weather was a windless 4 degree Celsius. My uncle (Mother's brother) and his wife picked us up.

Snow is on the ground here and there. Not so much because it snowed recently or regularly but because the temperature stays so low that it doesn't melt during the day. So the landscape is brown or white with an occasional shock of green from some farmland covered by gray sky. Um, cheery!


Outside window of Helmut's house.

No pictures, sorry. It's kind of difficult to get a good shot doing 130 kph across the German country side.

Hopefully I'll get to connect here. Uncle Helmut has several PCs and a laptop with flat rate DSL plus satellite TV with a widescreen TV (~20in. CRT). (God, U.S. cable and telecomm sucks).


Gravesite of my grandparents.

(Your probably thinking, "Geez, the first thing you go to is where your grandparents are buried?" Trust me I was just being a tag-along).