Yesterday started at 5am and ended after midnight!! The train journey there, which should have taken about 3 hours took FIVE!! And the one coming home took SIX - three of which we had to stand up!!! That's what happens when you try and cram three or four train's worth of people onto one train!!! Drama Teen missed the morning of her "Beauty Inside and Out Day" but enjoyed the afternoon, which included the pampering by beauticians session. She also met a friend from her Summer Camp, and had a great time chatting to her. I spent the few hours I had in Edinburgh wandering round the fab shops on Princes Street, I didn't buy much (only a few books) as I'd been shopping the day before with my friend. But it was nice to window shop :-)
Once Drama Teen had finished her "Beauty Day" we ate a quick fast food meal, before heading for the station. After the delayed journey that morning, we were wondering if we would actually get home, and got to the station in plenty of time. All trains heading to Edinburgh from home's direction were severely delayed or cancelled!! Not a great start!! We eventually found that there was only one option to get home, and we would have to wait 3/4s of an hour for that train. There was nowhere to sit and wait where we could see the announcement boards, so that we would know what platform to use, so we stood and waited!! As soon as the platform was shown we rushed there, only to find a few hundred other people already knew and were massed on the platform. It wasn't long before the train pulled in, I made Drama Teen hold onto me and we pushed our way onto the train together. There were no seats left, apart from in First Class - which even in these sort of circumstances the train company would not let you sit in unless you paid a hefty supplement!! We ended up standing in the luggage bit of one carriage all the way to Newcastle. Luckily enough people left the train in Newcastle that we were able to get seats together - we could have sat down seperately earlier, but Drama Teen was adamant that she wouldn't sit next to a stranger! My poor aching back and feet really appreciated that seat :-) We got chatting to a group of people from Down South who had just been on a team building exercise on one of the Scottish Islands, which sounded like an episode of "I'm a Celebrity" complete with eating bugs and sleeping in the open!! Although I think I would have prefered the Australian jungle to the midge infested island they were on!!
LMS kept us up to date as to what her, Mr Messy and Little Prince were up to at the family wedding! Little Prince was good during the long service, playing on his GameBoy with the sound turned off. But he didn't cope at all with the sit down reception meal!! There was nowhere for him to run off some energy and he couldn't manage to sit still through the formal dinner, and had LMS in tears at one point :-( They left early!! LMS was dropped off with Baby Sis, as she was going to her Uni Town to pick up her keys to the house she and her friend's are renting this year, and she was half way there and it would have been silly to come home again. Mr Messy and Little Prince then drove home, and they arrived home before we even reached Newcastle!! Despite having set off waaaay after we did!!!
By the time we eventually reached our destination I was ready to cry!! And I still had half an hour's drive to go :-( Drama Teen chatted to me, and kept me awake during the drive and we finally got home after midnight this morning!! What a day!!!!!!
We then had to go and pick Little Prince up from school, and I dropped off his 'dyspraxia equipment' (well a sensory cushion, special scissors and writing slope). School have ordered all of this equipment to help Little Prince, but it hasn't arrived yet, so I offered them the use of his own stuff that we use at home and his teacher jumped at the chance. She was telling me how well he has settled in, and how hard he tries to do the work like the other children do. She is very pleased with how he is doing, and of course I am very proud of him :-) We think he did get stressed by the visit from a drumming company this afternoon though, as he chewed the front of his shirt until it was drenched!
After we had collected Little Prince we drove over to the local car garage, to make a note of ages, makes and prices of the cars available. Mr Messy has got to seriously start looking for a car as LMS is going back to University soon, and taking her car (that she and her Dad currently share) with her! The garage we actually visited had nowhere near as many cars as shown in the picture lol.
