Trip to Frankfurt

 We were excited for an opportunity to visit Frankfurt and receive humanitarian training. It was so fun to meet all the people who have been helping us to past few months.

The Bates from Olympia are serving in Croatia and Turkey, the Canfields are serving in Rome, and we are in Romania. Since Sister Bates was an ordinance worker, we have friends in common. And I recognized Sister Canfield from the numerous books she wrote in my youth about self-esteem and the LDS woman. They are also on their fifth mission.

We loved visiting the Frankfurt Temple with our group. While we were there we met a group travelling from Croatia and Slovenia. The distance they had to travel was more than 15 hours long.

They have a little visitor's center across the plaza that was hopping.

After the session we walked to a nearby restaurant called Cafe Klatsch which had Belgian food. The potatoes were so delicious that we were too stuffed for dessert. We almost forgot it was election day. Living in the future means we would have to go to sleep without knowing the results. Almost like 2020.

Our hotel room was fantastic with tall ceilings and a large bathroom. The view out the window was charming in the morning.

I woke up at 3:30am and thought I'd check the election results. I knew the day wouldn't end until after midnight when our flight landed in Bucharest, but it was quite exciting.

We walked next door to a Chinese restaurant and enjoyed lunch with everyone in the department. Paul is so picky about his Chinese food now.

Since we had many hours before our flight, we went with the Canfields to the My Zeil mall. A kind employee in a cinema stored our luggage while we walked inside the mall and outside in nearby shops.

We found this pair having a showdown right next to this cute Amazon delivery vehicle.

At 6pm we called an Uber and went to the airport together. It was funny to talk to all 5 of our Uber drivers over the past 3 days. Each was very interested in talking about President-elect Trump. They were from Pakistan, Syria, Casablanca, and Germany.