Dateline 06:30 Birmingham, AL: The alarm goes off and it's time to get myself ready for Corey to pick me up and take me to the airport! It's been quite a long time since I spent an entire flight talking with my seat mate, but I met a woman who is a researcher at UAB (school of medicine, nephrology) and she made the trip to Detroit really fun, especially since she had lived in Berlin and Dresden!
I found myself sitting next to a young man from Portugal on the Detroit to Amsterdam leg (7 - 1/2 hours) of the journey. Turns out he goes to college in Michigan and represented Portugal in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and will be going to Beijing in 2008 to swim the 1500 meter for his country! So look for Fernando Costa next summer at the games. He was a very nice guy. And cute too!
I watched a great movie for all you Shambhala movie night fans...The Darjeeling Limited. Check it out.
You can see how excited I was to be in Europe by the fact that I took photos of the Amsterdam airport! Actually it was one of the glitziest airports I've been in with all kinds of sleek European shops and somewhat gaudy Christmas decorations. But not a Euro did I spend...perhaps on the way back, for all those of you expecting Swiss or Dutch chocolate or wooden shoes from Holland.
So 22 1/2 hours later Patrick had picked me up at the airport; we took two buses and arrived at 83 Hampstead Strasse and I was ready for a nap. It was 3 am Birmingham time!
We're off to a Christmas Market tonight and an old church...
Tschuss (good-bye),
Tschuss (good-bye),
Pat
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