I woke up about 30 minutes before landing in Frankfurt. I love when that happens. THe fligh over was easy.. .. and we were gettign in at a decent time.. like 11:45 in the morning !. It was nice seeign the ended fields of germany from above. Alles in ordenung !

When we landed , our first theoughts were about fuinding Nova.. I hope she had a good flight. I wander if she was scaerd ? sleepy ? 
 we had seen on the internet that it could take up to 2 hours before we might see here. I found her tracker….

as it trunes out,she was thererwaitign for us in her crate when we got to the baggage claim. She was sititng there queitly.. and was SOOOO hapy to see us.. !

Gabe had rented a minivan to coem pick us up.. and he was only about 20 minutes behind us.. Nova was even more happy to see him !!!!!

we climbed in the van and had a nice one hour-ish ride to Gerbrunn where Gabe loives.. It was a beutiful day. It was DIanw’s (and Nova’s) first time seeign weehre Gabe lives.. 

We could also see where we live.. and it was (again) covered in snow !

Gabe gave us all a tour of hsi Apertment and his neighborhood. It’s such a buetiful place.. and such a great location.. Its abotu a 5 min bike ride, 12 min walk to his work.. and its about 40 seconds away from beutiful rolling famrland that he and nova can run around on 

Our challenge was to stay awake late enoguh to sleep through jet lag.. so we all got in the can and headed to down town Würzburg which is abotu 15 minuts drive away. We wnt through the Residenz’s gardens. THe residenz is an 18th centruy palace for the Prince Bishop.. THe grounds are amazing.. and it’s full spring here.. A nice break from snow 

we walked aroudn downtown.. includign the bridge where folks gather for local wine every night !

gabe is gettign used to the food.. he likes  it.. lots of meant.. Here’a. aign tht says it like it is “Meat  is my vegatables !”

lots of interesting public art in this town .. and beutiful sunsets !

then home.. to sleep (and perchance to dream !) 

more from here tomorrow !
nite all. nite sam
-me

Today is go time. !  (or as they say in German slang: Heute geht’s um die Wurst!  (today it’s down to the sausage !) 

We got out of the house around 8 and droce all day down to jfk. I. keeping with this winter’s theme.. it was snowing liek crazy until we fot out of Vermont ..  KInda cool that Nova came in to Vermont on a snow storm and is leavign this trip in a snowstorm !

we dreove straight throgh until abotu an hour and a half NW of the city and stopped at Sleeping Gant State Park.  it was a beutiful place to let nova get some fun ball chasing in..  It was a really beutiful place.. it was a sunny an windy..

Got to JFK at just about the time we waimed for.. 6-ish for a 9 PM flight. I drobed DIan and Nova at the terminal, while I drove to takwe  back the rental van.. I was told that cold take an hour.. but it wonly took 20 min.. Then We all went inside to check in.. Nava didnt knwo what to make of it.. whe was very nervous.. but shuch a good and calm girl. We had come to JFK and a booked a lufthansa flight becuse our normal airlien United no longer took dogs. .. Lufthansa is in the same alliance, and they have a great reputaiton for carrying pets…  Our only two chices were Newark or JFK.. and I’ll do anythig to miss Newark these days..

The good folks at lughtansa did not dissapoint !. We were met by a man named Mr Mutoo and his colleague Madalyne.. Between them thaty made sure we know everythign we needed to do help Nova have a good trip. We were told we could come back at the last minute, to shorten the amountt of time Nova had to be in her crate.. So .. we had alost 2 hours to hang out. first we went outside to the small doggie area and gave her soem dinner (ling with soem meds for nasea and anxiety). she ate well.. then we decided to walk around inside there was actually a lounge outside of security that took our Saphire card as membershi.. so the trhee of us got to go in there and chiol out..t hey hed us and got us drinks.. Nova got to hang out with us, which was so much fun. There was a woman with a cat who was flying to hing kong in there.. I was glad we had a realitvly shorter tri ahead

then it was time to get Nova loaded in.> Again My Muttoo and Madalyne wwere so helpful and calming. We took nova over to the special cargo place, and got her into her crate using some cheese as encourgment. She went right in.. .. she seemed to be ok with everythign. it was so weird to see her rollign away on the cart lookign back at us wondering hat was goign on !

I couldnt help noticing that TERMINALONE is also TERMIN ALONE .. I was pretty sad.. but knew however the trip went, she’d love to get back together with Gabe. 

We boarded about 8:30. and next thing I knew . we were landing in Frankfort..  !

More from Tomorrow !
nite all, nite sam

-me

Today was soooooooper busy at work. I had a bunch of things I had to get done before I left.. including soem stuff that had to travel to the UK this week. Pretty fun stuff that im excited to see work

After work, I headed to the airport to pick up a van we’ll be usign to derive to JFK.. we have nova, her crate and 4 big bags.. so we needed a van.

Leaving early tomoorw.   it’s gonna be an adventure !

nite all, nite sam
-me

We spent the entire day packing and getting ready to go. Tomorrow afternoon we pick up the car Tuesday morning early we drive down to New York.

its getting to be go time. ! 

nite all, nite sam
-me