Made it! Can't post pictures from here, but I'll try and put in a word now and then. We left Houston (after a surprise snowfall!) on Thursday at noon. The plane took off at 4:30 PM, and we made it to Frankfort for breakfast. Now I can say I've been to Germany, although they even took US currency in the airport. $6 for a bottle of water!

After Frankfort we landed in Kuwait(and I can check that off too!), dropped off a few people and went into Saudi. Their security there is tight- they took pictures and fingerprints of everyone. One woman's baggage went to Bahrain, but eventually we all made it to the hotel. Total travel time- 26 hours.

More later, including a thrilling surprise visit!

Another teacher has a blog- mrheiden.blogspot.com. He's been entering lots of stuff (he packed a laptop) so check out his site to find out what's really happening.