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KAREN'S GERMANY TOUR - DIARY
Day 1:
Wow today is the day I finally leave for UK to Meet Mave at Gatwick
Airport, have been looking fwd to this for at least 5 or 6 weeks
now. Shelly will meet us later in the day as it is quite a long
drive. I arrive with no problems and have to get my luggage etc
and find Mave.. hmmmmm where is she I can't find her anywhere ...
Ah well I see a Costas coffee shop right there I will go in for
a drink and see If I can't find her.. hmmm whats that my ears perk
up I hear HERE I AM just as I walked into Costas wow what a welcome
to UK AHHH there is Mave .. excuse me erm Mave.. AHHHHHHHHHH KAREN
big hugs and a shreik ... we go back to costas for a coffee and
juice.. and we both say DO YOU HEAR THAT HERE I AM!!!!!!!!!!! the
shop had played 3 spirit songs continuosly .. Knew from then on
this was going be an amazing trip for me !
We get to Maves car and off we go .. OOH boy wait a min I am sitting
in the what's supposed to be the drivers seat, not feeling to comfy
where I am sat at, on to the Motorway back to Maves house and all
the way there I am freaking out, I have never been in a car that
had the opposite driving equipment as I have and on the opposite
side of the road so I was a bit scared ( has nothing to do with
Mave's driving Honest ;-) )
Arrive at Maves home and meet her Family and try to settle in a
bit watch some Videos and wait for Shelly to arrive, Finally she
is here big Hugs and shreiks again ( see we all been chatting and
friends for nearly 3 yrs ) so we are all very happy to finally meet
and tour together. Then Mandy arrives with her video from warwick
with her singing WYG on it.. WOW what a GREAT video she had brought
with her. We then get some dinner and chat a bit before we are al
off to bed as we need to get up early and head to Stanstead for
our flight to Germany. ( couldn't sleep a wink too excited still
and time change)
Day 2:
Wake up at 7 am ( Shelly will tell you it was 6:59 but it was 7
I swear it) Well we didnt need to be up til 8 am so back to bed
I went starring at the ceiling for an hour ha ha ha finally I hear
ppl stirring AHH time to get up and shower and cofee and tea and
make sure we all have tickets, passports, etc Mave's hubby (poor
fellow lol) he was great he helped us get all sorted put all our
things in the Trunk (boot) of the car, how it fit I have NO Idea.
off we go to Stanstead check in and all that good stuff, went looking
for a coffee shop for some lunch b4 we have to board the plane finally
we spot a decent place . so we had our lunch and thought we had
better start heading to the Gates.. Shelly shouts out WAIT WAIT
LOOK LOOK .. what Shelly what is it? Shelly spots a shop that has
BADGIRL sashes well of course we all had to have one THEN we spot
metal pins that say "Girls on Tour"well it goes perfectly
with our new sashes and we can take a marker and write BAD on top
of them. The poor clerk must have thought we were just let out of
the institution hahaha.
well off we head to the gate only to realise it was last call for
boarding so we hurried up had a million stairs to go down then a
tram to catch.. Mave is saying to us well i hope they have a loo
on the plane just in case ... I turn to her and say NO mave not
on this one.... esp not this one.. the look of Horror on her face
was quite a picture.. she believed me (sorry mave ) then we get
on the tram and that same look of horror come across her face again..
"We are we going? where are you taking me"? it took everything
we had to not laugh but Shelly and I couldn't help it we busted
out in the worst case of the giggles and poor mave sat there not
knowing anything. so we had explained we needed to be on it to get
to the plane. we get off the tram and have more stairs to go down
and well quite to Our amazement the plane was this HUGE yellow thing..
well Mave and I couldnt resist we decided it was the Banana we had
to ride to Duesledorf. Mave's words were . "It's a big staright
Banana for crying out loud" hahahahahah well ok so you can
imagine how THAT conversation went .. Not sure if details are quite
important here hehehe.
Mave and I aren't too keen on flying so we all ordered some drinks
once we were up in the air and no sooner did we get them we were
landing hahah .. So what's one to do other than Down the drink in
front of u right?
We land safely, and off to get our luggage and get the Hire car..
ok now which way do we go to Oberhausen? let's look at the Map ,
ermmmm NO MAP in the car .. off to get one quickly .. AHH ok thats
better now we know which way to go.. so we are driving and driving
and driving hmmmmm whats that sign say? "Welcome to the Nederlands"
OH NO we went to far hahah Missed a turn or something somewhere
, pull into the petrol station and the gentleman says to Shelly,
"You do know you are in the NL" Uhm yes I do now How do
we get to Oberhausen ? hah so we found out we went in the opposite
direction we should have gone but we will get there. AHH finally
we arrive in Oberhausen Now where is this hotel?? Well by this time
I needed a wee BAD, so Shelly finds a Petrol Station and says here
ya go , I go inside and the lady doesn't speak ANY english, So I
try to think of what to call the ladies room, I say bathroom? restroom,
and At this point I couldn't think of how to call it and I was trying
to still have a bit of manners and not just come out and say Toilette.So
I thought well sign language may work so silly me does the "pee
pee" dance and the poor lady just laughed OH TOILETTEN ahhh
as she hands me the key she is giggling at me and trying to show
me where it was. Well now I know the correct term for a wee in germany
LOL . well we found the venue straight away and according to our
print out from the internet the Hotel wasn't far away hmm we are
looking and driving nearly 5 hours only to find out this hotle doesn't
exist ugggggg well we found a different hotel not far from the venue
and just booked in.. get up to our room , Shelly and I share a room
and Mave has her own, Shelly and I say g'night to mave and close
our door, OMG what's that , Shelly and I are FREAKING out all ya
hear is whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo whoooooooooooooooo like ghostie
sounds , freaked us out then realised what it was, thought it would
be a laugh to tell mave, we didnt know mave would literally wet
herself , So we eneded up getting managment up there to sort it
out for us and see if we can't get a diff room, well he was a good
sport about it but we ended up having to sleep with the window open
a bit so we didnt hear ghosties all night.....Off to zzzzzzzzzzzzz
land we went we have a BIG day tomorrow.
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