In-Laws in Hamburg: Day 1

Everybody survived Gary and Shirley's first day in Hamburg. High points of the day:

• Picking up a very appreciative Hund at her Hundehotel, after a trip that took far longer than appreciated (German Word of the Day: Stau [traffic jam]).
• The obligatory one-hour cruise through Hamburg harbor (hopefully everybody got something out of my decidedly less-than-literal translation of the tour guide; as we were riding through the container port section of the harbor, and he started reading names off of containers and telling fascinating facts about each shipping line, I decided it was okay to cut back to translating the very high points)
• Wine shopping (we filled four of the six slots in Gary's wine holder, and we haven't even gotten to the real wine stores yet!)
• A long walk with the dog through the Planten un Blomen
• A nice dinner

And now it's off to meet Gary and Shirley at their hotel, from where we'll set off to catch the morning train to Berlin!

Posted by Kevin at April 20, 2004 06:14 AM