Sunday
To bed at 2 and up at 5! Left the hotel
at exactly 6 and arrived at the airport exactly on time to check in for my
flight to Hamburg. It’s not a long flight so maybe I was thinking that
maybe I can grab a nap when I get there but, NOOOOOO!
I was able to move into my room, shower and
get ready before Ronald picked me up to go to Wackelpeter, a very special shop
in Hamburg, founded by Jurgen Jakobsen, the boss of Membran and staffed by
handicapped people, two of which are his own. The shop and the people of
the area were celebrating their 3rd anniversary and I was there to sign CDs etc.
My first experience of this place was what
inspired Monica and myself to open a small version of it in the village near us
as part of the “Esperanza” project.
They had jazz bands, big bands and senior and
junior marching bands, beer, kebabs and just about everything you need to have a
good time. It was low-key and low-stress but it was a lot of fun.
We had dinner at one of the great restaurants
that my friends at Membran like to go to and they had made arrangements to sit
at a table close enough to the big TV screen so I/we could watch the race.
It doesn’t get much better than that!
Festivities
ended early. Everyone was tired from working hard all weekend and I was
thankful to get to bed early as we have a lot of meetings tomorrow.
