Today I slept in quite late, didn’t even get up till near noon (I guess I’m still not over my jetlag yet).
Last night when we were out walking, we passed a gym nearby to the apartment (about 5 minutes away). Since I needed to go buy some groceries at a store near there today, I stopped in and had a look around. The facilities there were all really top-of-the-line…they even had a juice bar on the first floor. I talked to a representative from there about what it would cost to work out there (anticipating it being outrageously expensive) and found that it was actually quite affordable! So was able to sign up for a two-month membership for what it would have cost to work out for 2 weeks at the gym near my house in NC. Great Deal, I think.
Later this afternoon after going through some emails, I had a bit of down time, so I decided to try the gym out. The equipment was all really nice. They even had a place on every machine to insert kind of an electronic key that records all of your workout info (like amount or weight, reps, duration, what machines, etc), and as well you can program workout routines for the cardio machines into it. Pretty cool.
Anyways, I couldn’t stay long, as I needed to be back at the Thiermeiers’ by 7:30. Mrs. Thiermeier and I drove to the local Bauhaus (basically Home Depot or Lowe’s) to get some work gloves. After that we came back, had dinner and went out for another walk, this time all within Schöneberg (the part of Berlin where I live), just showing me some more places and other stuff around.
