Week in Review (March 26 - April 1)

Tuesday (11,211 steps) - See this post - Travel day to Europe
Wednesday (20,870 steps) - See this post - Fat Tire bike tour and museums
Thursday (23,808 steps) - See this post - Tiergarten run, Berlin Aquarium & Zoo
Friday (20,792 steps) - See this post - Warsaw, assorted museums
Saturday (17,709 steps) - See this post - Race expo & Old Town walking tour
Sunday (40,661 steps) - See this post - Warsaw half marathon!
Monday (18,781 steps) - See this post - Krakow - Auschwitz, Birkenau, Salt Mines, Macabre Krakow walking tour)

Stats:

• 153,832 steps
• 17.3 miles run
• No gym visits, but one bike ride and loooots of walking

Day 10 - Travel back KRK - TXL - KEF - DEN

Even though I wasn't going to be able to get much sleep anyway, I managed to wake up more than thirty minutes before my alarm went off, around 3 am. Geez.

Polish donut!

Last minute stuff while we still had internet, then finalized packing and headed downstairs to check out of the hotel. Turns out that the shuttle I had scheduled when we checked in somehow was missing (of course). Thankfully, the gal at the desk was able to call a taxi for us, and it was actually much cheaper anyway. Phew. Drive to the airport was uneventful.

When we had checked in through Ryanair (an airline I have never used), it said that since we were not flying with EU identification that we had to have a paper boarding ticket. When we got through the line the guy told us in the future we would need to have that ready before we got there. It ended up working out for the best, the paper ticket we had did NOT have us as an economy ticket, and we were able to get our backpacks on without having to pay extra money (FYI, this is the Spirit airlines of Europe, without paying extra, you can only bring on a 20cm x 40 cm bag).

You don't even get a seat pocket

Upon arrival in Berlin, we had approximately a million hours until our next flight. We found a cafe and watched a movie on Netflix - "Isn't it Romantic." Silly, but it passed the time. I don't even know how we got through the rest of the time, although we did have food and more dessert.

Going through security was fast, but then we were dumped into a small holding cell until our flight for Reykjavik left. I passed time by having beer.

Both flights were uneventful. Over the course of 11 hours, I watched "You've Got Mail," "Sideways," "Valentine's Day" and part of "Juno." I also managed to doze off or a few hours here and there. Quite the accomplishment since I can rarely sleep on a plane. My biggest "success" may have been not getting up the entire flight from Reykjavik to Denver (8 hours).

We landed pretty close to on time, breezed through customs (seriously, if you don't have mobile passport, download it - such a time saver) and took the shuttle to the car. I ordered tacos for pick up since I knew we didn't have any food at home.

Dinner, a load of laundry, and I think I managed to be in bed shortly after 9.

Phew.

Day 4 - Tiergarten Run, Berlin Aquarium & Zoo

Thanks to our adventures the day before, we knew where we wanted to run. After breakfast we took the bus back to Tiergarten for a run. I had looked at some maps and figured that a loop around the whole thing would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 miles. We were taking it very easy, pace wise, but it didn't FEEL that easy. We took a bunch of pictures and managed to not get lost. We also managed to NOT go all the way around the whole park, but we still got in 4ish miles.

 

We went back to the hotel to shower, and stopped to get food.

We didn't have much planned for the day, but I gave A the choice of what to do, and she picked the aquarium and the zoo. We had a great time doing both.

The poor penguins were sharing their space with this super mean swan that kept biting them!!

We stopped at an Irish pub for a drink - black & tan for the win!

On our way back to the hotel, we finally had the chance to ride on one of the double decker buses, something A has wanted to do for a while, and we never had the opportunity to do before.