This event was a breakthrough in several ways. It was our first dancing event after the childbirth (a caller school cannot be counted as such, at least not for Lenka), and it was the first large trip for Robin. Driving should take five hours; we better counted six, since we should breastfeed twice. We set off at 11 o’clock and Robin fell asleep practically immediately after the car took off. We had our lunch at our favorite Shell station near Rokycany still in the Czech Republic. The food was OK (for a gas station) and it was a good breastfeeding and diaper changing place, too. We took our second stop already in Germany. We have found out that we can change diapers and breastfeed in the car pretty well (or rather on the car). Our little Robin really behaved perfectly the whole journey. He either slept or if not than he looked out the window a watched the surroundings.

Long expected and prepared caller school with Vic Ceder that at least I was looking forward to as a kid started in April 2010. It should have been a fantastic week and at the beginning nobody had an idea that this would really be 14 interesting days for our family. Vic flew in on Thursday April 4 at 5:30 pm, at the time when Medvedev was flying out and Obama stayed at the Castle and then at the US embassy. Because of it the police closed the roundabout and Europe Street.

We went to Denmark in the spring of 2009 for a weekend only to a C event that I called. We went there directly from England (you can read about that trip here). The trip started in Calais at night and according to our calculations we should have arrived at Aalborg. We were not sure that we were going to manage, since we met a couple of nice bikers, who told us that there was a big storm in Belgium and that the freeways there were under water. We did not try to find a detour though, because we believed that we were going to get through.

We realized in 2009 that it is better to spend few more days at iPAC than just a weekend, so it was clear two years later that we will do it again. We left on Wednesday already, and Věrka, Lenka’s mother that could participate in iPAC as a plus dancer was with us. She took her own car, since she was taking another two people. The trip there was not so simple, since we were encountering one traffic jam after another. In spite of that we arrived on time to make C1 dancing.

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