Good morning:
After a good nights sleep and almost an inch and a quarter of nice steady rain the morning seems different.
Lets remember Rehe. Who sent that good picture of the scenic setting of the Christliches Erhohlungs Heim? Edith & Harold occupied that one room off that balcony and I had the other with Fred & Angelika's family on the other side.
There is so much more to say about Rehe. Remember in Rehe we were the group of 16.
In other words I suggest we go by the name the "Rehe 16". Go Figure!
It was great to have Esther & Ted with us on that part of the journey. It was the proper introduction to our Ukraine visit. With Fred's family returning to America after Rehe and Ukraine by crossing the Atlantic on the water as our forefathers had almost a century ago one might say, as they did in Germany when Germans returned from the Soviet Union to Germany after having left that country by invitation of Catherine the Great more than two hundred years ago: "Der Kreis ist geschlossen." Does anyone know the significance of "Zerbst?"
herb
I believe that Zerbst, Germany is the birthplace of Catherine The Great.
ReplyDeleteI (with Sandra's help)submitted the photo of the tranquil setting at Rehe. It was a lovely spot!
ReplyDeleteI have other photos I would like to post, but haven't quite figured out how to do that, especially so that they appear with a caption.
Herb says Go figure! My figuring tells me we were "Rehe 15", and just to inform the non-Rehe relatives who was there from North America, here is the list:
David & Barbara Fransen, Ted & Esther Fransen, Fred & Angelika Fransen with children Katharina & Nicolas, Sharon & Jeff Landis with children Hannah & Kate, Herb Fransen, Harold Regier & Edith Fransen.
After Rehe, Ted & Esther departed on their own adventure; Fred & Angelika's children stayed with their maternal Oma in Germany, and Suzanne Marie (Fransen) Hitt of Ohio joined us at the Frankfurt airport and so we were initially 12 in our Ukraine group, until Johann Dueck of Germany joined us three days later.