My bad day just happened to be yesterday. It started on the train ride home from Amsterdam. At a stop to switch trains I bought some raisen bread. I misjudged the strength of the bag and the bread went flying. 2 euros wasted, I decided I could just ask if they might give me another, no? Okay, thanks. No, I will not buy another one. My entire meal of the morning and afternoon consisted of a bottle of water..yum.
Then when we got off the train I was so happy to be back in Delft. That was until I unlocked me and Bre's bikes and mine wouldn't move. Turns out I forgot to lock the wheel and just left the key right in there. So, this is the best guess; Someone locked the wheel, took the key, and is banking on me abandoning the bike. Sorry, jerk. I will lock it back to the railing with this hefty duty bike lock and call a locksmith tomorrow. However, the locksmith might not work considering bike theft is an industry here so they may refuse to help. I can always try. I am going back up to the train station Tuesday to visit the bike shop around the corner and see if they can do anything for me. Otherwise, I have to buy a new bike. This bike wasn't even mine, Kendra and Dave borrowed it from a friend who wasn't using it. If the locksmith can't do anything for me then I have to pay for this bike. Bre thinks she is just going to return her bike because there is no use in us just having one between the two of us. Besides, we do not need the stress of worrying about other people's bikes. If they were ours, different story, but I don't feel like stressing out about someone stealing or ruining another bike that doesn't belong to me.
The whole way home from the train station I was cursing myself for not remembering the wheel lock. The way it works is that it will only unlock if the key is still in there and you can't remove it unless you lock it. So instead of locking it every time I went somewhere, I used the hefty duty lock to lock up both our bikes and left the wheel lock alone....thinking no one would come along and lock my bike for me....
I also tripped on my own feet while walking home.
I just knew something horrible would be waiting for me when we got back to our house, considering this day wasn't going to get any better. Yep, I was right. Right next to our house is an open space, not really big, but big enough to park a car if we had one. Delftse Hout allowed someone to set up their camper and tents there. I guess the worst part wasn't that they had screaming children or they were very loud themselves, no, the worst part was that their main area where this whole family (and the extension of the family) sat most of the day was right outside our bathroom window. Needless to say, window was closed, blind was shut, and we still felt uncomfortable with it.
At this point, Bre decided to go to sleep. I decided to upload all my pictures from Amsterdam and write the blog. Then, I thought, OMG I'm hungry - I haven't eaten all day. There was no food in the house. We cleaned most everything out before we left because we didn't want our fruit or veggies to go bad...and we mostly eat fresh produce and bread, along with soup and other breakfast items. I went to the grocery store to pick up the groceries we needed for the week and right as I turned the corner to walk into C1000 they closed the doors. First, I thought that they were just chilly and wanted the doors shut...nope. Closed.
The walk home was filled with hunger pangs and I just couldn't believe that this day was going that bad. What else could go wrong, I thought. Not really a question, more of a statement because I knew something else would be around the bend. I arrived at a corner shop where a man was standing outside. I asked this man how much a sandwich would be and he looked at me blankly. No, it wasn't because I was speaking English. It was because he didn't work there and didn't know why I was asking him. Ugh. I bet you can figure out just how dumb I felt.
When I came home I checked the fridge again. Salad that had brown leaves and a pepper. Bre woke up and cut up the pepper for me so I at least had something to eat and she ate the salad. But that's the reality here, if you can't make it to a store when its open...you don't have many options. You can't go out to eat because places close early.
I went to sleep last night thinking I would wake up to a new day. I have the day off, I thought, it will be a good day to relax. Bre and I woke up to rain so that was a negative. The positive, though, the people next door were packing up and heading out. So I went to the store in Delftse Hout and bought some breakfast for us. Pastries and yogurt. Mmmm. Afterwards we went grocery shopping. It got very hot when we left the grocery store so we were very excited to get home to jump in the pool. I guess everyone in Delftse Hout had that idea because the pool was packed, much too packed for Bre and I to want to jump in. Bre layed out and I just pretended I was in the pool when I took a shower.
Kendra called to let us know she got back from France and that she got my message about the bike. She also wasn't feeling well. So Bre and I headed over and let her take a nap, give Dave some time to run errands, and take care of the kids. I made some amazing burrito's for dinner when we got home and thats when my bad day went away. Bre complimented my cooking skills (Yes, Rachel and Aaron - I'm cooking!!) and enjoys the fact that I cook and she cleans every night. It works for us and I'm learning to cook because we don't want to eat soup every single night.
One of the positives of my day today was that we got very close to a Blue Heron today so I snapped a great shot of it. Also, the cows in the open pasture outside Delftse Hout were at the front of the field so I got a good picture of authentic Happy Dutch Cows.
That's really all there is to say on my part. Bre doesn't have anything she wants to add either.
We hope you enjoyed the pictures from Amsterdam and the long blog to make up for the lack of posts this weekend!!
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