Weeks 3 & 4 Germany

Welcome to weeks 3 & 4 in our lives here in Frankfurt...Melody has been busy "nesting" and making our home more attractive. A little bit of color, rearranging and some shelving make our once impossible little kitchen quite workable. (Gary will expect better meals now!)

Gary leaves for work (all the way across the parking lot!) at or before 7 am while it is still fairly dark. The missionaries he works with are up early. You can see from the number of lights already on that Gary's not the only one "up at at it"!

Last Saturday, the Whiddens called as we were tying on our scarves for a trek downtown. So, instead we headed for the quaint university town of Marburg.

Throughout Europe there are still plenty of specialty stores. The bakery, the shoemaker and the all important "brush store". Some of the little brushes had smiley faces on them.

Here we are are on a typical street in Marburg. We love the narrow pedestrian-only streets.



Our friends, the Whiddons are just ahead of us on this downhill slippery walkway.

The following week we head off for a Senior Missionary outing to the Deutches Ledermuseum (The Leather Museum) in Offenback. It turned out to be more than shoes and purses.

We pose in front of a fiersome dragon made of leather.

Native American art in Germany? Go figure! Gary acting as docent and

explaining to Brother Fankhauser the meaning of life.

We continue to try to meet new people who might be interested in learning about the church. This guy was a bit stiff necked and hard headed.

It was interesting to learn that the gold leafing was affixed to books and

other leather objects with egg white.

Here we learn the origin of the unicorn. It was a Norseman who found a long (very long) tooth from an ancient large fish. When he returned the story mutated until, as the legend goes, it had been found on a mystical animal.

The designer, Louis Vitton, got his start in creating a great travel trunk.

He soon created many other leather pieces.

Melody is intent on getting the right view of these leather crests.

We end our 4th week with a trek into downtown Frankfurt. Melody has been dying

to get a photo of this great ancient tower justaposed with the modern skyskrapers.

We usually don't have the camera or it's dark out.

Till next time...