Krefeld and Alfdorf, Germany

Up at 5:0. I got ready to go to the airport. In getting everything ready to go I was late leaving the house and still forgot to bring the cassettes with the church files on it. I arrived at the airport at 10 minutes to 7 to fined the airplane delayed 45 minutes, probably due to ice on the runway in Stuttgart. The girl at the ticket counter gave me the wrong gate number but I’d flow the route often enough not to believe her. Good flight. Arrived in Repa about 10:30.

The big disk was delivered but no one yet there to install it. They didn’t arrive until noon. At 6 p.m. the drive still wasn’t running so they said they’d be back tomorrow.

Bill Stevens and I decided to go to Munich to a Carnival (Fasching) Ball. After rounding up a shirt to wear (it had to be a “costume”) we left about7 p.m. and arrived in Munich about 9 p.m. We had dinner at McDonalds and checked into the Hotel Consul. It’s a very nice hotel. We went to the Regina Palast to the ball which cost 7 marks to get in. They had a very good band but not very many people. Bill found a girl (or vice versa) and about 2:30 a.m. we went to her place for “coffee, wine, or apple juice”. Bill has found something. She apparently has a lot of money. She has a condominium in Munich and a house in Frankfurt. The condominium is completely redone in wood from an old Bier Stüben from northern Italy and filled with very old pieces of furniture, some cost 10,000 marks and more.

I was back at the hotel at 4:30 a.m. Bill informed me that I had to make my own way back to Repa tomorrow!

Transcribed from my journal.