at Schipol

I woke up 4 nights ago and knew that I had thrown away the train tickets to the airport.  I had to wake John up at 4am to ask him if he gave them to me or if he had them, even though I hated to because he had class the next day and he has even had to wear earplugs at night because of the noise on the streets at night and in the morning.  He told me that they were in the zippered pocket of my purse, but this is what I cleaned out before going to Zierikzee and I just knew that they were gone because John had thrown out the trash that day.  We came downstairs and went through my purse and as I moaned and whined and cursed myself, we were trying to think of how we were going to get to the airport now.   The Netherlands has gone paperless now and there is no way to buy tickets on our credit card at the machines.  In this harrowing idea, I checked one more pocket of a secondary purse and found the damn tickets.  John just laughed at me and we stayed up another hour talking about my idiocy and what I was going to be like the night before we left if this was already happening almost 6 days before leaving.  Another reason we travel well together, because I lose it while he keeps it together and then we switch positions and I’m calm when he is losing it.  I don’t know what would happen if we both lost it at the same time.  Someone would have to come get us and take us to the Embassy or something to have us shipped home, because we would be unable of getting anything accomplished.  By the way, did you guys see that yesterday was my 200^th post since starting this travel blog last year?  I told John that 200 days in a year and a half is a lot of time to be gone from home.  I’m going to become a homebody once we get back.

Luckily, we have made it through the train part of our journey and are ready for the plane part, automobile when we land.  Didn't sleep last night, but it wasn't because of worrying about travel, it was because people were partying outside our windows until 4am, so we will be VERY sleep deprived, but hopefully, sleep deprived at home.  love to everyone, jo