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(Extra material from our trip to Germany.)
I knew there were selfies from the Brandenburg Gate. I just stumbled on them, and here’s one now.
Make fun of the selfie stick if you like, but it helped us compose some nice pictures during the trip.
There probably will be plenty of extra shots from the trip for a while. See them again for the first time!
Thomas Carvel was a Greek immigrant. The story goes he wanted to make his customers smile and bought an ice cream truck. Somehow a flat tire figures into the legend because he built his first ice cream store where the truck broke down.
Now, 81 years and countless stores later, here I am, learning about clown cakes.
Seems that Wednesdays are also buy one sundae get another one at a pl;easing consumer price point. So that’s what we did.
Good promotion. There was a line out of the door at one point while we were there. But no one was buying clown cakes.
Day three, jet lag levels have returned to almost normal.
Went out for a little recovery run today, got in another 5K. That’s 12 miles in three days. Figured I’d complained about walking enough, I may as well move around in some other way.
This is where I ran:
We took our engagement pictures in that park — during a nor’easter. Something like 15 inches of snow on the ground that day.
“Let’s sit on this bench and take a picture! It’ll be cute!” she said.
Snow-covered benches.
The picture is cute, but don’t tell her.
The park is near where The Yankee grew up. She probably climbed all of the trees in that park. Probably in a few nor’easters.
Here’s one of those trees now. Even for a maple this seemed like it was giving up too soon.
But that’s just the sun, come out to play.
This week, from Monday through Thursday, I walked 34 miles in new loafers over the cobblestones of Berlin. Walked so much I have some weird muscle strain across the top of my foot. On Friday, of course, we flew home.
There was a cancer research fundraiser in Stamford today — a 5K walk, a 5K run and a 10K run.
So naturally we went out and ran the 10K.
I do not know what is happening.
Signs from the groups massing for the walk:
Big hugs after the finish line:
Mid-run thoughts: Every uphill is just a downhill you haven't met yet.
— kenny smith (@kennysmith) June 7, 2015
Supporters along the way. Some days they boost the morale more than others:
In the little festival area they had near the finish line there were boards with markers and posters and note cards. People were coming through and writing the names of the people they were running and walking for. It was quite moving.
If you want a little feel-good emotion wake up early some weekend and volunteer at a cancer run. It’ll change your day.
