Of all the mornings...

Michael struggles with time management today! It's the accommodations fault. It's too relaxing. The urgency of our departure time did not translate to him at all, despite us being awake at 7am in the morning, and having a lovely, lazy relax. I even had a bath and took snaps of the sunrise (will update later when Michael sends me the snaps I took). Like, just look how chill I am at 8am. We barely had anything to pack.

And yet, it hits 9.20am, which is the time we have to leave to comfortably get to Onomichi station, find the platform, and get the train that gets us in with ample time to transfer at Fukuyama, I find myself at the front door packed and shoes on... And Michaels brushing his teeth 😭😭😭 I always allocate at least 2-4 mins leeway, but between bathroom, packing, turning things off, putting bags on, putting shoes on, we don't leave until 9.27am. It's going to be very tight. I say no stopping. We fly down the hill, get stuck at the light that takes forever to give us the ability to cross the road. I check the time, 6 minutes to walk 750m with all our bags.

We have no choice. We jog. We have three minutes to go. My lucky charm smashes on the floor as we were running, gone forever. No time. We run across the road as the walk light goes from green to red. We get to the station. 1 minute. But on the other platform. I yell to Michael. RUN. NOW. We race down the stairs and up onto the other platform as the train arrives, jumping straight on it. No time to double check. The next train from here is 35 minutes after this one, and would only gives us 5 minutes to get the tickets and transfer to the shinkansen at Fukuyama to get to Osaka.

We arrive at Fukuyama with plenty of time to sort out our Shinkansen QR tickets, go to the bathroom, to take a rest (given our lungs are now cooked from running through the cold), and to find our platform and hop on the train to Osaka. It was oh so dicey.

I'm being a drama queen, but in all seriousness, of all the days to not take my schedule seriously... I need a megahorn to blast or something.Read more