Alaskan LeAnn visits GERMANY!!!

My awesome friend...and former roommate, LeAnn Rees came all the way to Germany to visit me!! I mean sure she is spending her Christmas in Switzerland with friends, but she still came to visit me. We had just over 24 hours to hang out. So it was busy and it was right before all of the BFA students left so my Palmgarten girls got to meet LeAnn. She followed me around and said repeatedly to me, "Bonnie, I like your life." That is a pretty sweet compliment.
I took LeAnn to downtown Kandern on Thrusday. Every Thursday the people of Kandern have a Christmas celebration. The sell brats and gluwein (warm wine) in the Bloominplats (Kandern town square). Here LeAnn is with a large burning log. The Germans will sand near to keep warm in the December cold while they enjoy fellowship and food.

LeAnn and I enjoy the beautiful Hauptstrasse, Kander's main street. It is beautifully decorated with lights.

Ahhh the Euro Airport. This is a place where I come often. At the beginning and end of each term, I get to drive here and pick up or drop off students. It is called the Euro Airport since it is in Switzerland and France. I am on the French side right now.

LeAnn is loving her cultural experience and the fact that she can check off a couple more countries she has visited just by coming with me to the airport in Basel.

I had a joint run with 12 students going to the airport. I drove a van as did another dorm. Here is the end of the train of students taking their bags to fly home for Christmas. We had the middle eastern crew.

I also got to go into the airport just to make sure everyone was able to get out and that their bags were not too heavy to fly. Here brother and sister "D" and "K" wait patiently in line. They are flying to a "closed" country to see their parents.

After LeAnn and I dropped all of the students off we went to Freiburg, Germany for MEXICAN food....yummmmm. On the way there we stopped off at the Birkenstock store and found this lovely horse stature next to it! LeAnn and I have a tradition of posing next to random things. This tradition began on our New England road trip we took in Oct. 2007.