We arrived in Germany on the Wednesday after our USSTAG training camp at the Chicago Match Race Center over the weekend. Our flights all made it on time, inspite of some early delays in the USA, which resulted in close connections.  Molly and I arrived between 8:00 and 8:30am on different flights.  We found each other in Hamburg Airport, and then went on the adventure of figuring out the bus system as our way to get to Kiel. There was a direct bus to Kiel, but then we had to find the right bus that went to the sailing center. We managed and enjoyed a 50 minute ride from downtown Kiel out to the sailing center.  We checked out the local city and took in the culture a little. Debbie arrived later in the day at the same time as our USSTAG teammates so she hitched a ride with them up here.  It was a long day for all of us, as none of us really got much sleep on the plane and then we forced ourselves to stay awake until at least 8:30pm before we could go to bed.  And that¹s all we made it to before we had to go to bed. And then slept until 8am the next morning.