Elder Nelson's visit to Hamburg, and interpreting again

I don't think I've posted about this yet. On the other hand, it made me write in my paper journal for the second time in about four years (the first time was a couple of days earlier when Stella peer-pressured me into writing an entry).

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Rahel and Christian

Last Saturday, Rahel and Christian came to visit.

( Complicated family relationships. )

They came over to Hamburg from Bremen for a day. Debby, Stella's sister, also came down from Kiel to meet them; she had never met Rahel and Christian before.

Rahel looked pretty much the same as she had done when we were in Switzerland last summer: about five months pregnant. (It's a body, apparently.)

We went to Planten un Blomen, a park in central Hamburg( and had fun there. )

We had arranged to meet Sister Gysler at the exit at 7 p.m.; she said she would call us on Stella's mobile phone beforehand to confirm the appointment, in case we decided to leave early. Someone had called while we were at the balloon game, but I probably hadn't heard the ring because of the background noise. So I wasn't sure whether she would be coming.

( More complicated family relationships. )

She had a big package she wanted to send to Switzerland (to her sister, I think) and wanted to take advantage of her relatives' visit by passing the package on to them. She did show up finally with her companion, Sister Morley. Poor sister, she's only been in Germany for two weeks and when Sister Gysler talked with her relatives, she didn't understand a word. On the other hand, neither did I; Swiss German is essentially a foreign language for me.

We talked for another little while, took some pictures of the group, and then went home. When we got there, Debby took off for Kiel again and then the others left fairly soon afterwards as well.