It was supposed to be a perfect day, starting with a lie in followed by breakfast which even might have been in bed. Then I had planned to do a last minute shop, nothing too get excited about just a few toiletries and some new knickers, after all you can never have too many knickers. Mom always said 1 to wash, 1 to wear and 1 as a spare and as we are away for 95 days that's a lot of knickers. Anyway I digress and what I had planned as a relaxed time with an early night turned into a hactic, stressful time and a late night with little sleep.
Laura had been talking about putting strip led lighting and a camera in the horse box so that she could see what she was doing and also see what Aston (her horse) was doing. She was also having a hard time starting the engine so Steve organised a new battery which he was able to collect and fit. So at 6pm on Wednesday evening Steve was still working on Laura's van when he should have been eating his dinner. We had arranged to pop into Sues to drop off tools we had borrowed for Steve to do the jobs that needed doing and then on to John and Judy's to do the same. The intention was to have a quick cuppa with each of them leaving to get to the hotel at the airport at about 10.30pm and have an early night as we had to be up at 05.15am. Needless to say we were running late but not as late as we expected but you know what Steve is like when he talks for England and we also had to ask John to print off boarding cards and hotel booking confirmations which took time as we couldn't find the relevant emails. Time marched on and after taking the wrong turnings a couple of times and with the air turning blue we arrived at the hotel at about 11.15pm. After having returned the hire car and checked in at the hotel adrenaline had taken over and neither of us felt tired so we went to a cafe near to the hotel for a cup of coffee then at 01.00hr after signing on to get his emails Steve announced it was time for bed and we would only have 4hr 15min sleep. Unfortunately that didn't tally with the fire alarm deciding to go off intermittently at 04.00am, the noise being loud enough to wake the dead.
Following this little bit of excitement Steve promptly returned to a comatose state, snoring his head off whilst I couldn't go back to sleep knowing the alarm was set for 05.15hr. Luckily the hotel was only a couple of minutes walk from the terminal buildings so we arrived at the bag drop off point and even had time fior a bacon roll and a cup of tea before we had to go to the departure gate.
We are now at an altitude of 33,000 feet flying towards Singapore which is a further 320km. Our arrival time is 08.15hr which will be 00.15hr in the UK. We are both shattered after being 'up' for 20hrs following only 4hrs sleep. Goodness knows when it will be but we are looking forward to a couple of hours sleep as what should have been one turned into half, sleeps that is.
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