Long summer days

It doesn't get dark here till 11pm and I woke this morning, wide awake at 3:56 am and the sun was already coming up. I am not sleeping much on this trip. My time is really messed up. It is 5am and I am up and around. I went out last night to see city hall square and tivoli gardens all lit up. It was beautiful. Lots of neon signs everywhere.

I am worried about flying. I awoke so early in pain. My blisters make it so my shoes don't fit and I'm a bit sore.

Off to the races

Last evening I fell asleep by 9pm, so tired from living a day among the land of models. It's exhausting.

Then I woke up at midnight, as my room overlooks a restaurant with a large patio and on a Saturday night, people are awake and have a lot to talk about till 2am. I woke up at 5am wide awake once again and just lied in bed. Then at 6:30am on the dot, alarm clocks went off all down the hall. Apparently, I am not the only marathoner staying in this "H" hotel. I got to breakfast, as the hotel serves breakfast, and all these lanky, muscular calved people wearing their marathoner shirts and "I've done 100 marathons" jackets were milling about. It's intimidating, especially because I have done less than a handful of long runs for this race and my gastronomic choices haven't exactly been pre-race fare: Belgian waffles, ice cream bars and foccacia pizza. Oh well, too late now. I'll be carrying a camera as well, so I'll be packing more than usual.

It will just be a nice little run through a beautiful city. It will be just a "running tour". And today is nicer weather. So hopefully the sun will hold... "picnic weather" as they say here.

I'm in Europe!

I successfully made it to Copenhagen and found my hotel thank you very much. All these people kept saying...wow, Europe on your own? Even a lady just now..."are you here on your own? Wow, I couldn't do that." Yes, I am thank you very much. All by myself.

Thursday morning was quite hectic. The shuttle to the airport picked me up 20 minutes late and then had another stop after me. Then I got to Delta and there were hoards of people standing around, no line, just people everywhere and everything was so disorganized. They just had people standing everywhere yelling at the employees and the employees were just ignoring everyone. I got to my flight and they were boarding already.

The guys on my flight to ATL sitting next to me were reading Obama's book and then on my flight to Copenhagen the lady sitting next to me was also reading Obama's book...in Swedish. I didn't get the memo that was the only acceptable flight reading material.

I did watch two cute movies: Hotel for Dogs and Yes Man. I recommend both.

I got into Copenhagen and found my way straight to the train and then found the correct stop and Tivoli Gardens and Hard Rock Cafe, so I am set!

Today on my agenda is to visit Tivoli Gardens and then to visit the fitness expo to pick up my number for my race. I heard it is a ways out of town, so I'll either do a cab or try to navigate my way around this town by bus. I found tourist information, so I'm sure I'll ask for help. See? That's all it takes to find my way around the town. Just ask a few questions. I found my hotel on my own all by looking at a map. All the women who told me...wow, I wouldn't go somewhere without my husband. Well, when you don't have one, it's pretty amazing what you can do on your own.

The Danish men are all gorgeous. Big blue eyes and rectangular glasses and sweaters tied around their shoulders...all European and sophisicated. Happy to be back in Europe!! Now, I'm on the lookout for some white Magnums....