Guten Abend von Köln! We are finally here after feeling the effects of old Mother Nature in Pittsburgh on Saturday before we left. The first group of nine people got out a little late, but they took an unplanned side trip to Albany instead of going straight to Newark. They made it to Newark after a bumpy and sometimes harrowing puddle-jump, but they missed the connection to Köln.
The second group of 18 never made it out of the Burgh on Saturday, at least by air. Our flight was cancelled, and we set off for Newark in three minivans because there was no way to get to the East Coast until at least Tuesday. After driving through a white-out in Somerset, we stopped for the night in beautiful Carlisle. After an authentic German breakfast (see below, Waffel Haus), we drove to Newark on Sunday to meet up with the other group for the evening flight overseas.
All has been going as planned since we arrived in Köln. Many of us feasted on Meters and Liters at the Sion Brewery on Monday night, and that made up for a lot of our travel troubles. (Yes, the three of us ate that meter of sausage before us.) Today was an equally-good day with our day-long visit to Bayer and our dinner at the organic brewery, but I will leave that story to someone else.
Tschüß!
--Matt
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