{"id":4072,"date":"2016-09-24T03:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2016-09-24T03:02:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T08:02:38","slug":"tomorrow-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=4072","title":{"rendered":"Germany!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is race day. \u00a0Tomorrow is the Berlin Marathon!<\/p>\n

My sister and I arrived in Berlin on Wednesday. \u00a0We left Columbus, Mississippi, around 10:00am Tuesday morning. \u00a0I had been sooo excited that I woke up at 2:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep.<\/p>\n

When my sister and my BIL pulled up for the drive to Birmingham, Alabama, and the airport, I was bouncing all over the place. \u00a0I was READY to travel! \u00a0I knew that I was going to be hating myself for being up so early but to be honest, there really wasn’t a thing I could do about it. \u00a0*sigh*<\/p>\n

We arrived in Birmingham, went through TSA, grabbed a bite to eat and settled in to wait for our first flight to Chicago.<\/p>\n

We had a short (and I mean about an hour) layover in Chicago to catch our connecting flight to Munich. \u00a0We had to change terminals in Chicago. \u00a0It was a hurried walk through O’Hare but we made it and settled in on the plane for the long flight to Germany.<\/p>\n

Munich was just as harried as O’Hare. \u00a0We had an hour to get off the plane, go through customs and find our connecting flight to Berlin. \u00a0Lucky for us this flight was running a little bit behind schedule so we actually ended up waiting a little bit. \u00a0The down time was nice because he had been worried about missing the flight.<\/p>\n

We arrived in Berlin after not sleeping the entire 19 hour flight time. \u00a0We. Were. Toast. \u00a0Our luggage made it so we were happy!<\/p>\n

Before leaving home, MFH (My Favorite Husband) had printed off little “business cards” with the name and address of our hotel. \u00a0He did that because last year our cab driver took us to the wrong hotel and I didn’t want to mess with ending up in the wrong place again.<\/p>\n

We hailed a cab and the airport and I gave the little card to the taxi driver. \u00a0He drove is to our hotel. \u00a0No problem! \u00a0EXCEPT, when we went into the hotel we found out that I had messed up when I made our reservations. \u00a0We didn’t have reservations for that night. \u00a0Our reservations didn’t start until the next night! \u00a0Uh-oh!<\/p>\n

The hotel didn’t have any openings for that evening but they helped us find a place to stay for that evening. \u00a0We came back the next morning and checked into our original hotel. \u00a0Boy, oh boy, I really messed that up, didn’t I? \u00a0It all worked out okay in the end so we were happy about that.<\/p>\n

The day we arrived, after checking into our substitute hotel, we did a little bit of sightseeing and went out for dinner. \u00a0The restaurant hailed us a cab and we drove back to the substitute hotel. \u00a0It was only a 5-10 minute drive but I was fast asleep by the time we reached the hotel. \u00a0I had been up about 38 hrs straight by this time and I was very tired.<\/p>\n

We immediately crashed and slept 13 hrs. \u00a0I don’t even know if I rolled over during the night!<\/p>\n

Since then, we’ve played tourist, gone to the Expo, met some online friends IRL for the very first time. \u00a0One of those friends brought Paxton a nice red necktie! \u00a0How awesome is that!?!<\/p>\n

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We also met up with some other UK friends at the Hard Rock in Berlin. \u00a0We had burgers and beer and had a very nice dinner. \u00a0What a treat to meet them!!!<\/p>\n

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Today is a time of resting. \u00a0Tomorrow is the race. \u00a0Last year I did a bit too much before the race and had some trouble on the course due to being too tired. \u00a0This year I’m trying to be a tad smarter. \u00a0We’ll see if it works out?<\/p>\n

Super excited to be back in Germany again! \u00a0This is the highlight of my year. \u00a0Last year I fell in love with this country and this city in particular. \u00a0Love it here!<\/p>\n

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#teamZensah~~~I’m going to be sporting these compression sleeves at the race tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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#AbbottWMM<\/p>\n

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#MSBlueCrew \u00a0 \u00a0$10 Discount Code: \u00a0MBM17MH<\/p>\n

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