Welcoming Our First Guests

Like many Americans, we spent the day at an airport.  Dave's cousin marries a German on Saturday, so his mother, uncle, aunt, and cousins arrived this morning for their first trip to Europe.  I planned to work and let Dave do the airport pick up solo, but I changed my mind this morning.  I love airports and wanted to experience our first guests arrival.

Frankfurt International Airport serves the most people of all airports in Germany and the third most in Europe.  It also serves the most international destinations in the world.  We arrived early and parked our car in an 11 story parking deck.  Still not reading signs properly, we rode the parking elevator up where a middle age couple entered and then back down.  They read the map and started walking with authority so we followed them.  Later, we discovered they were the groom's parents.

We spent the next two hours in the airport waiting for people and their luggage and taking pictures:

Dave's cousin Courtney - the bride, with her father, mother in law, and significant other

Dave and his cousin Taylor

Courtney greeting her granparents

Dave's cousin Lindsey and her grandfather  (This flight was his first one overseas)

Though these two went to school, I had to include a picture.  They helped me set up our ten and a half foot dining room table yesterday.