Gars bad travel day

Rough travel day from London to our new hotel. Neither one of us slept much last night. I’m getting Val’s cold and she’s still not over it. The flight from London was delayed almost 4 hours after we got up at 4:00 am to get to the airport for the 7:15 flight. The flight finally left a little after 11:00 and we were not able to sit by each other. Maybe that was a good thing. The good news is that the flight was pretty short and we were in Munich at around 2:00 Munich time. Still plenty of time to get to our room and see a few sights.

Oh, I forgot a couple of issues. I didn’t put my man tool (micro Leatherman with scissors not pliers so my kids call it a girly tool) in my luggage so it didn’t get past inspections. Then I somehow forgot to get a map or directions to the hotel. Small mistake when you speak the language big mistake when you don’t. Had to get cash so we could use a phone since for some reason our credit card wouldn’t work in the phone like it was supposed to. Never sure how many numbers to dial on these international / local calls. Anyway it’s getting dark and we can’t find our room and I’, not sure if we are even with 10 miles of it. Val uses her cell phone and gets the place and good directions (we were close) and it all works out in the end. Val came to the rescue for me once again even if it did cost $1.50 per minute who cares at that point.

The room is a little short of what was advertised but we have stayed at worse and it was our cheapest stay.

We went to the Marianplatz Christmas Market tonight and it was spectacular. It was one of the reasons we came and it was well worth it. Hard to get good pictures but lots of lights, old buildings and good food. Val had a mulled wine and rum (she shared) and I had something that was like a deep fried potato pancake with sour creamy stuff (I shared a little). Both were delicious and the atmosphere was incredible. We tried to take some pictures but were too busy soaking it in. We will go back tomorrow night when we are a bit more rested. It was an incredible memory that will stick with me for quite some time to come.

While all that was going on little Alec got hired on fulltime with the City of Seattle. He did it all on his own and you can be assured that we are very proud of him.

So my lesson for today should have been to weather the storm and things will work out if you have patience and a great wife and wonderful children. Not sure I’m smart enough to figure that out so will probably take away something like don’t forget to put your mantool in your checked luggage. After going through all the history stuff in London I wonder if we ever really learn what we should.

I need some sleep.