If this is Tuesday . . .

Hey there loyal blog followers -

If this is Lorrach, it must be Tuesday morning in Germany. We had a great flight. We were originally seated about 4 rows apart in the cheap seats. We asked for seats closer together. Even though we had to pay for an upgrade to Economy Plus, we got 5 extra inches of legroom and got to sit side by side!

Our landing in Lorrach has been better than anything we could have hoped or imagined. We have an apartment, a car, a three minute walk to the train. The weather was described to us the other day as being Tuscany-like with cool mornings and warm days . . . I guess that explains the vineyards we can see from our apartment window on the the hillside just to our northwest.

We are getting settled, quiet nicely. We have made several trips into the city of Lorrach to go shopping. We have even been to the main train staition in Lorrach to discuss what is the cheapest fare to get us to Freiburg for language school. We have found ALDI, and several other "discount" grocery stores. We have also been to a couple that remind us of large American supermarkets. We have found a small cafe, bakery and pastryshop where we plan to eat breakfast 2 Saturdays a month - the koffee ist stark und die brotchen sind Himmlisch! There is a pedestrian zone downtown with lots of shops and restaurants.

God has provided our apartment. We have 2 bedrooms, bath, toilette, kitchen and living room. There are windows galore and we have a rather large balcony. We live on the first level of the three story building. Our neighborhood is very quiet even when the train goes by. That is one of the joys of electric trains. We are about 5 minutes walk from the Swiss border and we plan to visit Basel soon. God has also provided a car for us. It is a late model VW Passat. We drove over to Rheinfelden yesterday evening and found one of the DIY homestores that have become as prevalent in Germany as in the US. At the Haupteingang (main entrance) there is even a small eatery tucked into the "foyer".

Please pray for us over the next couple of days.We are excited about the next part of our missionary journey.

• We will go to register at the Lorrach city hall on Thursday. We must take care of that not so minor detail before we can open a bank account, get our cell phones and home phone and internet.
• More importantly, we also need to register to get our residence permit and our VISAs to be in Germany.
• We will begin language school next Tuesday at the Goethe Institute in Freiburg. We wanted to get the best language school we could to learn our language correctly.
• If we are to reach the lady that lives next door for Christ, we're going to have to do so in the language that she laughs and crys in. AND it has got to be correct.

Thanks for dropping by. We really appreciate your prayers and support through CP and LMCO. We'll do our best to not let you down.