Day 3: Travel Day

Maria here. This blog will be changing voices, in case you hadn't noticed. And no, I wouldn't have mentioned the Kardashians in a blog post. In case anyone was wondering....😃

Today is a travel day and I am babysitting luggage while the other four explore a bit with our airport layover. This morning we left Reyjkavik quite early and caught a flight out to Amsterdam, where we have about six hours until we catch our flight to Munich.

My travel companions

It is hard to get around with all this stuff, but at least I have time on my side. I was excited to see this display in a store window at the airport:

A Swatch display! Big throwback for all you'80s kids!

Today is a huge travel day for us as we started around 4:30 am and will reach our destination around 9 pm our time, which is 11:00 pm in Germany.  After flying to Munich, we meet up with Phil at the Munich airport this evening. He will drive us to Regensburg where we will visit the home of Charlotte, our German exchange student.

Later...

Jonathan and the kids returned. They went into downtown Amsterdam, got some lunch, accidentally wandered into a seedy part of town, then headed back to the airport. All-in-all, we're pretty exhausted by now. And, with our flight to Munich now delayed, this is verging into the-day-that-shall-not-end. I reminded the kids of my guiding principles... Patience and a sense of humor (I read this somewhere). I noticed that I felt truly uninspired by those guiding principles at this moment in time. Somehow, somewhere, I shall find a bed again... But it's going to be a while.