Downtown

Here are some pictures from our walk around Sopot tonight.

Zoey chasing some birds  

Pier over the Baltic Sea

Fun fact: Hitler stayed at this hotel

At mom's request, pictures with me in them :)

Translation

Maka = Flour

This will work when we make sugar cookies, right? Wrong.

We probably should have translated the word under maka.

Ziemniaczana = Potato

Yep, we made sugar cookies using potato flour. I don't recommend it.

The cookies were white and a little difficult to swallow.

I need to learn more Polish. 

The Zoo

Since the weather is still somewhat nice,we decided to take the kids to the zoo. We also invited one of the other American player's wife and son to come with. I'm not the biggest fan of the zoo, but it was in a beautiful area and the kids loved it.

This was my favorite part of the zoo...

What better spot to have a baby changing station than out in the open right next to the lynx??? 

Long story short...ish

I was going to write a more detailed account about my lovely flight from Utah to Poland, but that would take too much time/effort. So instead you get the somewhat short version that will probably make little sense. All you need to know is that it took forever.

Here it goes: Arrive at the airport at 5:45am. After over an hour of talking to the lady at check-in, we find out the team changed our itinerary and just never informed us. Rude. New flight doesn't leave until 11am. Flight #1 Salt Lake to Chicago.

Ava was my airplane buddy and fell asleep the last hour. Zoey's sick bag total: 1.

Eight hour layover in Chicago. Ridiculous. Thank goodness for the kids play area in the airport and Lesa's former soccer coach from the U for picking us up and taking us to dinner.

Flight #2 Chicago to Copenhagen. Yay for the kiddos sleeping almost the entire time. Zoey's sick bag total: 2. Run from one side of the airport to the other (passing an H&M on the way...seriously). Make it to our gate five minutes before boarding.

Flight #3 Copenhagen to Gdansk. Took only one hour. Zoey's sick bag total: 4. 

After picking up all 9 of our bags and fitting everyone/everything into two taxi vans we made to Sopot, Poland. Hallelujah. 

Sleep

This is all I want to do whenever I sit down. Jet lag and four kids is rough. I will post more about the trip as soon as I can see straight and I get more than a couple hours sleep. On a more positive note, we made it. :)

So this one time...

As most of you know, I’m going to Poland.  A free trip and getting paid to nanny these awesome kids? 

(plus baby Beckham)

Sign me up! 


Well, I have to be up at 4:45am to go to the airport tomorrow. I promise a more interesting post next time. I'm still trying to figure out all this blogging stuff. Sopot, Poland here I come!