We Made It

 We reserved an Uber for 5am on Tuesday. He arrived at 4:45. Mild freak out. We got to the airport and witnessed the carnage that is Southwest Airlines and hoped that it wasn't spilling over to United. Mild freak out. There were just a couple of agents at the United counters and a pretty long line - mild freak out - but the they had a system going, and it took us mere minutes to move through bag check. Denver Airport is divided north and south. All the TSA gates are on the north side. We passed over the bridgeway and glanced towards the south side - hundreds HUNDREDS of people in line. Mild freak out. When we got to the north side and the TSA checkpoint, literally 30 people. Our flight to San Francisco was delayed (yes, we flew out via San Francisco because we flew on miles and that was our option). Mild freak out. But we finally took off. Whew!

San Francisco Airport is pretty nice. Especially since we found a craft beer bar just across from our arrival gate.

We had some really nice beers, including a Pliny the Elder on tap! 

Our flight out was delayed just a bit, but I'd had a beer or two, soooo no freak out. And because it had already been a really long day, I slept really well as we soared over Greenland and Iceland.

Once in Munich, we cruised through customs and waited a only a bit for our bags (which arrived safe and sound). We grabbed a cab to the Haptbahnhof (the main rail station) and hopped a train for the four-hour ride to Berlin. We'll spend two days in Munich on the way back home, so we didn't need to linger.  We arrived at the Berlin train station and snarfed a quick meal - so hungry - before catching yet another cab to our hotel.

Yes. I'm tired. And that shower felt so good! Tomorrow we'll get our bearings and make a bit of a plan for our stay here. Right now...it's lights out.