Melanie Does Life - being pregnant :-)

After a 3 hour delay in Detroit I was finally on my way to Amsterdam. I made my connection flight to Frankfurt with 10 mins to spare. Then I hopped on the train to meet my mom 1.5 hours later near my hometown at the train station. I was tired and sooo ready for a shower.

I also attended a Tupperware-Party the same night at my sister’s house and had a lot of fun there. Last night I went running with my mom’s local running group. They had a slower and a faster group and I went with the slow one. That was the right pace for me and I managed to run 4.6 miles - my blister didn’t hurt and it was the first run after IronGirl on Sunday. Today I meet some friends at a local restaurant/pub and we had a great night with some alcohol, delicious food and lots of laughter.

Missed my flight to Frankfurt. 😞 The plane from Tampa was late. Now I am rerouted to Amsterdam and then to Frankfurt. But now this plane is late too - something with the emergency lights is going on. We were supposed to leave 40 min ago but we won’t start boarding until 8:30 pm. I don’t like this at all. 😁😖 I will be at least 4 hours later than planed. Now I am hoping that we will be on our way soon.

3 days until the IronGirl Half Marathon in Clearwater.

5 days until I leave to Germany.

6 days until I arrive in Europe.

6 days as well until my sisters Tupperware-Party.

10 days until the St. Wendel marathon relay.

Sounds like I have 2 very busy weeks ahead of me. And I won’t talk yet about the other 4 weeks I will be spending in Germany.

Today we left the Tampa area and went to Daytona Beach. My dad wanted to see the Bikeweek here and since their vacation fell into the same date range  we are here. We left Tampa this morning and drove here.

First we went to see the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse. We walked up all the 203 steps to the top and enjoyed a great view over Daytona and the atlantic ocean. Unfortunately I just took pictures with my normal camera and I can’t upload them right now. You will have to wait until I am back at home. At the lighthouse they also have the old houses of the lighthouse keepers and made them into different exhibits. I liked it.

Then we went to the hotel and got our room. The ocean view is really great. Right now we are relaxing a little before we will go into town. There we will grab a bite to eat and get some beers afterwards. Do some people watching, actually make that bike and biker watching - there are so many over here.

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Heute haben wir Tampa verlassen und sind jetzt in Daytona Beach. Mein Papa wollte auf die Bikeweek und da diese während ihrer Urlaubszeit statt findet sind wir hier.

Zuerst haben wir uns den Leuchtturm auf dem Ponce de Leon Inlet angesehen. Wir sind alle 203 Stufen bis zum obersten Ebene hinauf gestiegen. Dort gab es einen wunderschönen Ausblick über das Meer und die Stadt Daytona. Leider hab ich nur Bilder mit meiner Kamera gemacht und nicht mit dem iPhone. Deswegen kann ich jetzt keine Bilder hochladen und ihr müsst warten, bis ich wieder zu Hause bin. Beim Leuchtturm waren die Häuser der Leuchttumwärter zu Museen umgebaut und das war sehr interessant. 

Danach sind wir zum Hotel gefahren und haben unser Zimmer bezogen. Der Blick über das Meer ist grossartig. Im Moment entspannen wir uns ein bisschen und gehen wir in den Ort. Mal sehen, was wir noch so machen werden. Abendessen und ein paar Bier trinken. Personen beobachten wahrscheinlich. Oder besser Motorräder und die Fahrer beobachten, da es hier so viele davon gibt.