Journey to OASIS/BAAF Conference

I set off on Friday evening, after Mr Messy had finished work, he was on a jobsite fairly near to home, so was home early enough to drop me off at the train station. Once we were on our way, I got quite nervous about going down to London on my own, worrying if I could find the restaurant where I was meeting people (or should I chicken out and go straight to the hotel?!?) and all sorts of other worries!!! After having some really clingy tight hugs from Little Prince I got on the train and found my seat, Mr Messy and Little Prince pretended to race the train when I set off - which Little Prince looked to be loving :-) I was sat next to a very chatty business man on the train, and we chatted most of the journey. He then very kindly took me to the right Tube stop and pointed out on the map which way I should be going - what a nice man :-)

Once I got off the tube I followed the directions on the map I'd printed out, and after a 20 minute walk I finally found the restaurant, near Harrods- I was so relieved!! But also disappointed that Harrods was already shut, Mr Messy would probably be relieved lol. I chatted to the people I was meeting while they ate their dinner, wishing I'd had more than a snack on the train, once they'd finished we went to the Tube station to go to the hotel. I hadn't realised (and Mr Messy hadn't told me!!) that I only had a one use Tube ticket, not a rover type ticket - no wonder the machine kept rejecting it!! The lovely lady who was manning the station said that as I was only going a couple of stops, that she'd let me through and to act dumb at the other end!! I felt so naughty!!! It worked though :-)

The hotel we were staying at had a huge marble lobby, and looked very posh, although nice the rooms didn't quite match the first impressions lol. Me and my friend chatted and gossiped until the early hours, which was a lot of girlie fun :-) I knew I'd regret it when the alarm went off the next morning lol.