6:30AM- woke up to say bye to Dan :[ :[ :[
7AM-10ish-pack everything up in the lashing rain… rainy tent included
11AM-bus shows up to collect us and take us to the airport (like my Irish lingo Shannon?!)
12PM-3PM- we grab food and do last minute shopping for needed things
3:40PM- our flight to Budapest is suppose to leave
4:40PM- flight is still delayed
5:15PM- we finally get to board the plane!
5:45PM- as we are waiting on the runway to leave, I am literally in tears from having to go to the bathroom so bad. The lady would not let me go. I have never been in so much pain in my life. it was a bit embarrassing to say the least.
6:05PM- I finally get to go to the bathroom. AMEN.
9PM- we arrive in Budapest!
10PM- we get out of customs to find we need to take a 30 min shuttle to get to the train station to make the last train of the night by 11:13… ekk.
10:45PM- we make it to the train station!
11:00PM- we can’t find 3 of the team leaders while the rest of us are all on the train and there may or may not have been a bribe that took place in order to even get on…
11:20PM- train is off! and we all made it!
11:30PM- I’m a little bummed it is nothing like a Harry Potter train :[
11:40PM-we scrounge the little euros we do have to buy random snacks. success.
12AM- I watch the movie Once and loved it.
2:30-3:30AM- they come by to stamp our passports for crossing the border into Romania. I can’t help but think what it would be like if the Texas/Mexico border patrol was this easy ha.
4AM- Josh, the team leader of Z’man, is yelling to us this is our stop to get off. he gets off, no one else is off yet and the train begins to leave. I look out the window to see Josh running toward the train waving his arms around at us!! oh man…
4:15AM- shannon and I wonder if we’d all be so calm if it was one of the girls left behind by themselves… we hope not.
4:30AM- we find out the next stop is not for another 2 hours… uh oh. so back to sleep it is.
7:00AM- we get off the train in Deva, Romania, to only have to wait an hour for the train to take us to Timisoara (where we were originally suppose to go to), while waiting we find a McDonalds, yessss.
7AMish- I find a doggie!!
8:15AM- it’s finally a Harry Potter train!!!!!! :] only no magical candy carts or owls… and so we get some much needed sleep.
I don’t remember what time we finally met up with Josh and our contact but it was a very eventful 36 hours in the end.
one of the train stations ^ spooky.
