Hello from the Katowice Airport in Poland!  Today as part of the European Leadership Forum, Daniel and I drove/rode to the airport and are greeting several attendees and speakers.  Daniel is doing great at navigating the country (I just hold my breath nervously and try to give good directions).  Remember those things we used to use called maps?  Well yes that’s all we have, and I am not the best map reader, but Daniel and I made it with only one turn around!

We just finished up cups of coffee over discussion with Martin Robinson.  I knew nothing about Martin and his wife Lynda.  So since I love to talk  I got right to it…after not much time we were discussing laughter as medicine to cure depression and other ailments.  He briefly mentioned he wrote a book, then moved on….come to find out, his book is entitled The 8 Secrets of Happiness.  How much more in line with my attitude and perspective could this man be?  I couldn’t stop smiling, God brings people, even complete strangers into our lives forever.  This couple made my day and I have already ordered his book.

Ok, no pictures as we’ve had literally no time really to think about getting our camera out, I’m SQUEEZING this blog in QUICKLY and will end it here, our next group is arriving!  I’ll keep everyone posted!

We are here – Poland we are here!  It was a journey.  We started out Tuesday morning from Indy and flew first to Washington D.C.  Then from DC we were to fly into VIenna, but the door on our plan wouldn’t shut correctly, so after an hour of sitting on the run way we finally flew off for our 8 hour flight.  Needless to say we missed our connection from Vienna to Poland but only by mere minutes.  (We are grateful as many in our group lost their luggage in all the switching flight confusion but we have ours!)

Ever wanted to feel like you were on Home Alone and run through the airport?  I did just that yesterday…maybe I just wanted to get my heart rate up after sitting so long, but I was DETERMINED we would make that plane.  So Dan and I ran through the Vienna airport and missed our flight by 10 minutes at the most.  I can’t say that I like the Austrian airport…it is the BIGGEST maze you’ll ever go on, so grateful for the Indianapolis Airport (we have it good in Indy!).  We were rebooked for a later flight to Berlin, then Berlin to Krakow.

Without complaining too much more  about lack of sleep, hunger *thank God for Quest bars and Shakeology!*, and jet lag  I will say we are here and loving it already.  Yes, all we’ve done is get a few hours sleep and take a shower, but it is beautiful and we are ready to get to work.  I’ll keep you all posted.

Weekend started for me Friday night with our local town’s Market Eve, it brings together local breweries, restaurants, and music!  It was a BLAST and they had this awesome ice cream truck.  LOVED the sign!  And they had all organic popsicles, I tried Strawberry Basil…AMAZING!!!

Saturday I woke up and got a LONG dog walk in and we went on an old path.  I don’t take it often but not sure why…look at this view we pass?

then we cleaned up around the house, tried to start packing – yeah you see no pics of that because well we still haven’t started packing And we helped move some things into our soon to be sister in law’s apartment for her.

After our long day (oh yes we snuck in a bike ride too!) we relaxed by the fire with some amazing grilled dinner!