Reaching Krakow for HiveBeeCon and pre-party.

It was a difficult decision to attend the HBC event at Krakow. I had 2 large meetings coming up- one regarding Ukrainian refugees in the city, and another one working up towards a personal goal.
I went back and forth with the idea, but since the announcement, my heart kept telling me to go.

I could not miss going to @krolestwo. KBK has a special place in my heart and the meet up with so many Hivers would be an icing on the top. So I managed to push my meetings and took the best tickets I could get.

The journey started with a train ride from Almere to the Schiphol airport. The airport is notorious for being busy so the decision was made to go extremely early, not to mention all the delays going with the trains.
From there it was a waiting and tiring game of gates and flights.

I could hardly catch up with sleep. I was tired but excited. In the back of my head I kept asking myself how would I feel...

Last time I was at Krakow, and KBK, my heart, mind, and soul were in a much different place than it is now. All the memories and feelings kept running back to me, the not nice ones. It sort of made me appreciate all that I have done since.

But as soon as I stepped on to Krakow, it was incredible. A huge smile came on to my face and I couldn't stop chanting "we're going to kbk! we're going to kbk!"

I took Kumar's cab and reached the popular yard front of KBK. The place where we stood and protested facing the Russian council. The place that has been now named to show support Ukraine. The curve of the road where I walked with Dawid to get my haircut. The road I walked on to take books to KBK to add to their library. All the big and small things that made this place special came back to me. It was incredible.

I could not remember the code to the outside gate of the KBK building, so in KBK fashion I peeped through the windows of the kingdom and shouted out for someone to hear me haha

Once inside, a whole day before the hivebeecon, I took a tour of the recently remodeled Kingdom, went through the cupboard and sat in the seats I had a year and half back, visited the museum inside the kingdom.

And then more familiar faces appeared. I met Gregory and @helicoptermoney aka @lpa. People who are so dear to me. Met jostyna, and finally we got some horrid sushi for dinner.

We played novuss and Natalia's son destroyed the wooden block tower. I wished I could have met everyone else, but life has done it's thing - people are busy.

From there on, I was only looking forward to the HiveBeeCon meet. Another exciting day!