Key adventures

Every single time we leave the apartment one of us asks the other, "Do you have the key?".  This is because European doors LOCK and do not open without a key.   I guess that is a good thing for a heavily populated area.  It certainly isn't like Idaho where no one locks doors - at least we don't often.  Here we always leave the key in the door when we are home so that it is visible.

Thursday, when we went shopping, Dave had the key.  When we got home with all our packages he didn't.  We checked all our pockets and bags and car and could not find it.  Finally we had to go over the Merkels' home to get the extra key.  Since 'key adventures' are a common thing here with missionaries the mission policy is to have a second key with someone in the ward.  We took the extra key and returned home.  I proceeded to prepare the meal for the institute students at Zwickau and Dave returned to the place we had been to check if they had found our key.  As he was leaving the second store he felt something in his coat but not in the pocket.  The key had fallen through a hole in his pocket and was in the lining.  We felt prayers were answered and I fixed the hole.  Now we have two keys in our possession to lose.  We will leave one with the hausmeister (maintenance man) who has a secure storage place on site.

The outside of the door has no knob that turns, only a keyhole.

We keep the key in the door and it is on a long strap so we can't lose it, yeah.... right!

  We finally have winter here.  We drove to Zwickau in the snow and saw a truck overturned which closed the autobahn on the other side.  We were glad the roadway was cleared for traffic coming home.  Today it has been snowing all day so we finally have about 6 inches of soft powder.  I am glad we don't have to go door to door.

Looking at our car in the apartment lot.  It is the middle one on the right.