The circuit

In some strange twist, I have become our early riser.
Today, it was 10:00. (That's a new record.)

We went biking again today, with more confidence and poise than Tuesday's adventure. Lovis is packing today to leave early tomorrow morning, so Jack and Liam managed to find Finn's house on rented bikes and tag along with us for most of the day.
(And by "day", I mean after 1 PM. That's when we always seem to leave; today we waved off Rena and Anne who went to go get Anne's wisdom teeth out in the morning, and were still there when they got back.)
We rode to some large government buildings/ memorials/ churches, mostly to photograph them, because Finn didn't really know anything about them. He could find just about everything, almost like he was going off of a list, but there was no tour guide spiel.
(We threatened to fire him as a guide. He threatened not to take us back home.)
So, lots of biking, lots of pictures, all day long. Not much else to tell.

When we wound up our sightseeing, he took us by a supermarket for food and then out to the old East Berlin airport. The airspace is now public, with acres and acres of flat land and runways. We saw kites, kitesurfers, rollerbladers, runners, countless bikers, and the occasional nudist hiding in the tall grass. (No, seriously.) I don't think I've ever seen such a huge horizon of public park space; between the fields and our bikes, Andie said she felt like we were in one of those farm-kid-makes-it-big movies, like October Sky-- maybe we live in Iowa and work at a diner called the Chuckle Hut.

We finally found some trees without people under them (clothed or otherwise) and shared a picnic lunch. When people got bored, they took turns riding Finn's racing bike and flinging around a frisbee with various degrees of skill. Jack and Liam went off to their own evening plans and we went home ourselves.

The first hour of any return is usually eaten by technology. In the time you would normally sit and rest for a while, we each find an electronic device and vegetate. We only move later, when someone finally looks up and asks what we're doing for dinner-- or in this case, that they feel like cookies. Andie decided that we should make cookies, and inspired everyone to walk down to the supermarket to find premade cookie dough (which we all sort of knew was a fruitless endeavor, but it was something to do). Instead, we found a large and interesting selection of ice cream, and we left with Magnum bars to eat on the walk home (and raspberry bars for Anne and her swollen face). Cookies abandoned, we decided to watch a movie. Warm Bodies has its moments, but perhaps less of the intended effect when you watch it with all the twitches and sluggishness of streaming online.

We went to bed earlier than we have all week, only slightly after midnight. Maybe this will start retraining us back into a normal circadian rhythm.