We took the train to the show and watched as lovely snow began to fall.  In the evening a few of us stopped at the huge Bierhalle for a wonderful dinner and listened and danced to the music of 2 German bands.

Thursday, March 12, 1992

I slept in as David proceeded to the show.  I drove in later with Mr. Boker.  This evening we attended a reception for all the U.S. exhibitors given by the U.S. Ambassador.  Very nice party.

Friday, March 13, 1992

David proceeded to the show and I took the ICE (fast) train in the midst of heavy snow to Hamburg, Germany (a very neat port city).  Another reception tonight with top officials in Germany at the City Hall.  As we leave the show for the City Hall on the tram the sun is shinning; we exit the tram downtown and are greeted by heavy wind and lots of heavy, blowing snow – so much that we could not see the building we were supposed to be going to.  But we made it and enjoyed good German food, live music, met more new people and had lots of fun.

Saturday, March 14, 1992

5:30AM train to Dusseldorf, Germany.  Erin was waiting there from her journey from the U.S.  Back to Hannover to the show and a big party at the Bierhalle for the American exibitors.

Night train to Hannover, Germany, leaving Paris at 9:35PM and arriving Hannover 8:40AM on Tuesday.  This time we have our Eurail passes from the U.S. for much easier traveling.  We quickly stashed our luggage into a train station locker and proceeded to set up the booth for the upcoming Cebit ’92 show.  The booth was sponsored in conjunction with the ITRC in Dallas and I was delighted to see Byron Cain there, allowing us to catch up on old times of our work days together.

In the evening (now Tuesday) we gathered our luggage and were driven to the home of Karlheinz and Erika Boker in Garbsen, a suburb of Hannover.  They were our guest host family, an older German couple who had traveled in the states; he spike some English and she spoke only German; lovely 3 story home; Karlheinz is a retired President of the Glassworkers Union in Hannover and still a member of parliament; Erika is the Vice Mayor of Garbsen.

Each morning we were treated to a German breakfast and lots of good company in the evenings.

We attended an English speaking, Scottish Presbyterian Church which was very quaint and David dashed off to show.

Monday, October 14, 1991

Repacking and closing down the booth at the show.  I’m determined to bring home a fichus tree and another plant David’s booth purchased for the show.  We don’t know if it’s legal across the border or not.