36 hours in England
This weekend was really awesome but also really intense. It started on Friday:
Malin met me at work and we went straight to Trosa to have dinner with mum. Dad had to work, so unfortunately he wasn’t at home. When we got there dinner was served, mum had made this amazing chicken salad.
After dinner we got ready and went to the airport, had a bit of trouble at the check in. Apparently we had checked in very late and the system at the airport couldn’t see we were already checked in. This never happened before but we only had to go to the service center to get new tickets.
Everything went well until we got to London Victoria around 2 AM. We were going to take the train to East Croydon, but Victoria Station was closed. I asked a guy who was standing outside why it was closed and he said it was because they were under staffed. We talked to him for a bit and suddenly I noticed that he looked so much like my high school crush – Rolf Wanhainen who was a hockey goalie for the team I support. I realised that if I had still been 14 years old I probably would’ve fallen in love with this guy in less than a minute. Fortunately, I’m over my crush and I did not fall in love with this guy.
We had to stand outside (in the cold) and wait for 30 minutes and when we finally got to go inside we got our tickets and then we had to wait another 30 minutes for the train to leave. We decided to get off at another station that was closer to our hotel and get a taxi from there. When we finally got to the hotel we went to bed right away.
We got 5 hours of sleep before we got up and got ready. Got the train to East Croydon where we began our day out with breakfast at Pret. The weather was really nice so we could sit outside. It was really nice just sitting there in the sun with Malin, having breakfast and enjoying my BLT! <3
After that we were going shopping. We spent 2 ½ hours at Primark and could probably go for 2 ½ more. When we were (almost) done we met our friend Josh. He came with me when I was paying for everything and we both guessed how much I’d have to pay. I said £109 and Josh said £121. It was £187…
After that we were just walking around trying to decide what to have for food. We ended up at PizzaHut.
Me and Malin went back to our hotel and made chaos… Things everywhere, showers, make up, hockey and music. We went to the reception and asked for a few things: A hair dryer, a bucket with ice and a knife. “We’re doing weird things in our room, ahhaha”.
Josh showed up as the chaos was almost over. All I had to do was to decide what to wear, and I left it up to Josh and Malin. We got a cab to the event-thing where we met everyone else. It was really amazing to see everyone again!! We stayed at the event until it closed around midnight and from there we went to Ryan and Nash’s place where we hung out and played games. I had the best laugh when Malin was teaching Rick some Swedish. I haven’t laughed that much in a really really long time, thanks guys <3. I even had to go out from that room for a bit because I ended up laughing so hard I couldn’t even stand up. Yoga Hitler...
At 2:30 we had to go back to the hotel to pack our things and go home.
Our cab driver was a really aggressive driver, and I really hate going places by car. I’m usually wide awake when I'm in a car, especially when someone is driving like that. This time I couldn’t stay awake, even though I was scared.
For once we were not at the airport in the last minute. Actually the opposite this time. We arrived 3 hours before departure and had to wait for our flight. We had some breakfast and I went for some more shopping.
I said I'd fall asleep before our plane left the gate and we both did. I woke up for a bit when the plane started leaving the gate, and realised we both missed the safety-thing. We slept all the way to Sweden and as I got home I went straight to bed and slept some more...
This weekend was awesome. Intense, but awesome! <3 Thanks to everyone who was there and thanks for being awesome! <3
XXX
