Barbara Thompson

Nope, not playing chess. The day started with a trip to Neuschwanstein. WhooHooo! I do not think I am a fan of Neuschwanstein because it looks like a Disney castle. I think I am a fan of Disney castles because of Neuschwanstein. When I was packing, I paged through the dress section of the closet […]

Today was the big bus ride of the trip. Here is our bus driver, Oskar, and our tour guide, Joachin. Oskar is from Bavaria and was representing today! Joachin is not, but he was game to fit in. We had four hours from Czech woods to the Bavarian forest. The bummer part of that is

We visited Želeč, a small town in Czech Republic, today – for the third time. Someone (I have been working on understanding the web that connects all of the players in the band – who knows who and how each player got invited to play with the band) knows a great guy named Mike, who

We are doing pretty well with jet lag – as in we feel fine until we blink too long, then we are asleep. Keith slept during the trip to Meissen – still getting a bit better every day – and I woke up when we got there, not having planned to blink so long. Our

We enjoyed our final breakfast in Berlin and headed down the road to Leipzig. Keith is feeling better, but not all better, so he slept on the bus. The sun was shining hard in the back window of the bus and I was draping things over my head to try to keep from roasting until

We started with a city tour. Well. No. We started with day 2 of the best hotel breakfast buffet. I enjoyed the chocolate course to begin, then discovered Tomato Paprika cream cheese and focused the rest of my meal on that. Oh my good! Then we went on a city tour. We walked through the

We went to a museum about living in East Berlin. It wasn’t a great place to live and most people would have liked to leave. The most interesting part was the Trabant, a car made in the DDR. It was not what you would call luxurious – Keith’s favorite part was the fact that it

I wonder what happened in the last picture of the day. What was yesterday? Is it still yesterday? Flying east is truly a beast. Our Delta One experience was different. And by that, I mean different from one another. Keith’s main flight attendant, Sue, was terrific. He got exceptional service and loved it. My aisle

We had a slow-down checking in with our two tubas – not a tuba problem, but a computer issue. I felt so sorry for the workers, but it is Minnesota and we are a nice lot, so I heard no angries. We went to the Delta lounge. The food buffet was limited ( no, really.

We are leaving tomorrow, so today was packing day. I have been thinking about it, so it didn’t seem like much of a task to get everything ready. I love that I think that every time I have to pack a suitcase. I am delusional. 🙂 But really, today was not a big deal. I