I made it!

I took off Thursday morning at 10 from Central Wisconsin Airport and landed in Chicago at O'Hare about 40 minutes later. My flight from Chicago left about 20 minutes late, but 8 hours later I touched down in Frankfurt in foggy-drizzly weather at 7AM local time, Friday morning. (Despite it being warm on the plane and getting stuck in a center seat, the long flight went really well.)

It was super fun to have many of the CSM people greet me at the airport... and so early in the morning! How nice. Somehow I managed to come out the "wrong" exit, but I eventually found them at the gate they were expecting me to come out of. : ) I found them though, wearing... one in a tuxedo, one with a weird hat, a Bears jersey (yes, people actually wear those in public) and a welcome sign with a Packer G! Pretty fun!!

We grabbed Starbucks and chatted for a bit before heading out. Unfortunately, the coffee did little to help me stay awake. I was majorly dragging - I didn't sleep at all on the flight over. But after doing a little running around and starting the paperwork for my military ID card I was able to take a good nap.

I'm staying at the Cadence Hospitality House until I find more longterm housing. Friday night is their ministry night, so I had a chance to start meeting some folks in the area which was nice. I crashed around 11 and slept the whole night through!

Sunday I'll head to chapel and continue meeting people and on Monday will start working on other things to get settled in.

All in all, doing well and happy to be here. Thanks for your prayers!!

Big prayer request... getting my military ID card. That's the first step to being able to do anything around here (get on base with ease, drive, mail box, etc.)