The Beginning of the Trip: Journey to Munich

 About to depart from the Fort Lauderdale Airport

 In front of the Marienplatz Neue Rathaus (famous for its Gloeckenspiel)

 Cousins Klaus and Heidemarie

Breakfast at our apartment

After a late night of packing and a sleepover, we headed off to Ft. Lauderdale on Tuesday, June 26th, at about 3:30 p.m., with plenty of spare time built in for driving and security.  Isabella was pulled aside for a extra screening, but laughed it off good naturedly with "They foiled my plan!!" upon her return.  Our flight out at 10:10 was fairly uneventful, except that Anneliese could see Tropical Depression Debbie outside her window, and that the stewardesses kept the lights on until about 2 a.m..  (Ugh!) 

With the help of directions from about 11 different people, we made our way through the Frankfort Airport Wednesday afternoon, and caught our connecting flight to Munich without too much trouble (Anneliese:  Johanna forgets to mention that we all had to sit in different rows, and that some of us were rather nervious about this.  However, Johanna asured me that I would sit next to the hansomest man on the plane and have lots of fun.  Guess who ended up sitting next to the good looking German just returning from studying in Oviedo, while the rest of us sat next to a sleeping women?  You guessed it, Johanna and Janik were having so much fun that they could be heard laughing throughout the plane.  Isabella and I say grrr. ).  Our cousin Klaus met us at the airport, and we took the tram to Ottobrunn and very thankfully dragged all our luggage downstairs to the basement apartment we had all to ourselves for the next three days.  Johanna