Day 5: Travel Day/Aero Island Part 1

Well this day has been an adventure. Dad and Uncle Chuck had our tickets for today all booked. We even had reserved seats on the train. We got to the train station early, we stopped and had breakfast at a bakery. We were sitting and enjoying coffee when my Dad decided to check on our train. It was a good thing he did.The engineers had gone on strike overnight. They didn't know which trains would actually get out. We hurried down to the track to try to get on the earlier one that had been delayed. We waited among the confused people as the time got pushed farther and farther back. Dad went and asked somebody again. They told him there was one leaving right then on another track. 

So he raced back to us and we set off at a run, well a gimpy jog for me. Uncle chuck kindly carried my bag so that I could actually run, and he has on each of the mad dashes since then. We made the train with about 30 seconds to spare. We had to switch trains at Odesen, which we had planned on but instead of twenty minutes to switch we had maybe one. Our train pulled out as we pulled in, which we didn't know until a after we had raced to the right platform.

When our train arrived we got on and sat waiting for it to leave. Dad had planned about a half hour turn over before we had to be on the ferry. Now it had been cut down to five minutes. So when our train got into the station, we ran off the train dodging through the crowd toward the harbor. We went through a construction zone and over cobbles. In the end I was only about half a block behind the others and we made the ferry with a couple minutes to spare. I ran not only on sprained, bruised ankle through this but also in sandals because my sneakers don't fit right with a swollen ankle. I feel like a total badass. 

I now sit comfortably on the deck of the ferry as it moves through the little islands. I'm watching fields and windmills go by. The sun is out, breeze is cool enough for a light jacket, which is fine by me. The only thing I could ask for is no cigarette smoke.