Day 264

So yesterday began early, and ended late. Or early...depending on how you look at it. I didn't get to sleep until 1.

I had woken up around 7:30 to leave to get my friend Kurt from the airport. The original plan, after seeing his flight was delayed 2 hours, was to leave around 8:30. When I rolled over to check the flight schedule however, it was another hour delayed. Still, because I didn't know where I was going, I decided to leave shortly after 8:30.

I found the airport without a problem and in great time. I parked, and had an hour to spare, so I went to the Starbucks, got a drink, sat and people watched. Closer to the time, I stood up to throw my garbage out and look at the screen. That's when I heard a woman say to a friend "Is it really hot enough for shorts today?" in a snobby kind of way, and she was looking my way making it quite clear that she was referring to me. To this moment, I regret not turning around and saying "Actually no, but I woke up this morning and thought...I really feel like freezing my ass off today". Or perhaps what I should have said was "Hey Lady, you're at an airport, you don't know me, and therefore have no idea where I'm going, or where I've come from. For all you know, I just arrived from somewhere like Florida, or that's my next destination. Cow!" Kurt and I decided today that I could have also said, "I'm Canadian, deal with it". Anyway, as I normally do...I kept my mouth shut, and continued on my way.

I went downstairs to wait for him. I watched the screen until it said his plane had landed. Then waited, staring at it, until it said Arrived. I then waited some more, with the lady next to me who thought the system was as ridiculous as I did, for the screen to say Baggage in Hall. What was a nice conversation, and about half an hour later...Kurt came walking out. We hugged, discussed the airport, and walked to the pay station. I paid for the ticket, we went to the car, and headed to the house.

When we got here, he had a quick shower, and then we left to meet Toni at Starbucks. After our coffees, I had talked Toni into skipping her line dancing, and coming to the movies with us instead. We went to see "Prince of Persia". It was a pretty good movie. I really enjoyed it. When that finished, we came back to Kelvedon to go for a walk up to the pub. When we got there, they weren't serving food, so we walked to the next one which is a good 10 minutes away. Same thing there. Although their sign said serving til 9, they stopped at 8.

We decided to walk back to the house, check the internet to see if a restaurant in Braintree was still serving food, and after calling to make sure, we drove there. We had a really nice dinner, and the people were so nice they even offered us dessert. As we walked in half an hour before they closed though, we told them we wouldn't do that to them. We came back to the house, had some tea, and watched Gavin and Stacey. Eventually we gave into tiredness. Toni went home, and Kurt and I went to our separate bedrooms and passed out. xx