A jinx, a journey and Jurassic world

Why did I book such an early train I thought to myself as the alarm sounded at 5.30 this morning. But I lay there a minute and realised I didn’t actually feel too tired despite not much sleep so I bounced out of bed, as did everyone else to be fair, even Tate. We had done most of the packing last night so didn’t need to do much this morning, just get dressed and go really. So that was what we did.
Now avid readers will recall that on day two of our trip i mentioned how our travel had been so smooth and that it was safe to say that because it was too late to jinx anything. Of course anyone who has any idea how jinxes work will know that it is never too late and they will always come back and bite you in the bum. This what happened this morning. We were so organised that we were well in advance of the time we needed to be at the station so even seeing one train pull away was not a problem. Then we saw that our train was a little delayed but not a problem, there was a train on the next platform we could get, it just meant going downstairs, out one set of ticket gates, in through another, then running upstairs only to see the doors shut and that train pull away too. No problem, there was another along soon and we still had loads of time up our sleeve. Back downstairs, out and in the gates and up to the platform and soon enough our train arrived and we were on the way to the airport to catch our train. No problem. Until of course we got to the airport and saw that our train back to Paris was cancelled. A quick check at the tickets desk and they explained that some engineering works/tunnel problems between Amsterdam and Rotterdam meant we had to catch another train to Utrecht and wait for our train there. We would have 10 minutes to spare if everything went well but by this stage I was not going to put my faith in that. But the universe had obviously decided it had messed with us enough and that is exactly what happened. Apart from the train being a bit full and a couple of Australians being in our seats everything from there went smoothly until we got back to Paris and had some slight problems with some ticket machines, nothing that couldn’t be resolved with a little double shuffling through the gates together.
We managed to get back to Lily’s flat and have some lunch and my gradual descent into tiredness due to the early start accelerated rapidly and I went for a bit of a lie down and a nanna nap. I managed to sleep for a bit while Jess cleaned the flat. I couldn’t sleep forever, as much as I would have liked to, as we had one more rendezvous today, as much as I could probably have done without it. The girls wanted to go and see Jurassic World and so that’s what we were off to do. Lily told us when we had to be ready and she was definitely not as understanding as I normally am when dealing with a similar situation so we (especially me because I was still a bit sleepy and not moving at my fastest) were told in no uncertain terms how useless we were. To be fair we were running a little late by this stage but it actually worked in our favour, we got our snacks, got our seats and the film started, with no ads or previews to sit through. The film itself was as expected, a few scares, a few extras eaten by dinosaurs and a large number of plot holes. It was fairly mindless but the girls all enjoyed it. After that it was back to the flat where another Monday night pasta was whipped up and greatly appreciated by all, I definitely felt the love. So it was a long and eventful day and I am glad it is coming to an end because I am excited as tomorrow we are off to Greece. Czytaj więcej