The rest of the trip.... a.k.a. CRAP

So the last few days deserve a short and sweet description... more short than sweet really. I think the Saturday I left all the lack of sleep, partying and then leaving everyone took its toll on me. By the time I took the bus, ferry, bus and was waiting at the airport, I was absolutely delirious and possibly hysterical. I decided at that point to get in touch with the fam (the real one) for the first time in a week, and called Adam at 8:30am his time to let him know I was ok. Except that I wasn't. I'm supremely glad that I didn't end up writing in the blog when I got back into London that night.. which by the way, was after 12 hours of travel and getting to the hostel I was staying at and being told that there were no beds left for me to sleep in.

Needless to say I pulled out the whoop-ass and they found me a bed. I passed out for about 8 hours, woke up and made my way to Luton Airport where there was a line of, no joke, 200 people waiting to get checked in with my airline. I highlighted the fact that there was only one hour left to my flight, and that if they wanted me on it then they should move me past the line. Which they did, and despite that I still had my name called on the way to my gate as well as having to sprint to make my plane. Long story short, the plane ended up being delayed by an hour anyway, but I needed that time to recover from smoker's lung (yes, that's right) anyway.

The movie on board was Dreamgirls - surprisingly good.

There was a little girl on the plane that kept yelling "I don't want to take off"... at first, I was extremely annoyed and then found myself about to yell along with her. I was really loathing the idea of coming to Canada, back to work and cold climate and away from everyone. This vacation definitely proved to be different, and traveling alone was not nearly as enjoyable as it was last time.

The highlight of those 2 days was when Adam picked me up from the airport - seeing my little big bro's familiar face was defintely a relief. He sat with me while I went through a whole box of tissues reminiscing about the trip... definitely not a task everyone would have sat through.

I think a little list of "lessons learned" on this trip is in order...