2012 London Olympics. Day Seventeen
Monday 13th August 2012
Evening
people.
Thank you and good night. Well that’s it. It was/is over.
It was now just the task of getting Anna home and myself back to work. So it was an alarm clock call of 4am with a 5.30am leave. I watched an amazing sunrise as we drove up the Motorway. Anna slept all the way. At 9am it was time for a Burger King breakfast.
Once we had arrived, it was lots of hugs for Anna and her mum and lots of cups of tea for me. Let the downloading of photos begin... 6 hours later... One or two issues evolved and I suddenly realised that I couldn't get back home in time to get to work for my 3am start. A quick phone call to the transport office and I was bumped along to 1pm.
Once the issues were sorted, someone came up with the idea to have a walk down the river and the castle. It was a nice and peaceful way to end our two week adventure. It couldn't have been more different to what we had just been doing. As we walked down to the river, we bumped into a 2012 Volunteer. We just fell about laughing. 350 miles from London and we bump into a volunteer.
As the time for leaving grew closer the adventure slowly and surely came a stop. No dramas. No big bangs. No fireworks. It kind of just crept up on us. A massive anti-climax. And that’s it? This is how it ends? I hadn't thought about the end. I'd never given it a second thought. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this.
Saying goodbye to Anna hurt. Really hurt.
Fuel up the car and I'm south bound. Then it happened. WTF? A few miles later and it happens again. Was that lightning? It was too. It lit up the far horizon. COME ON! I got further south as the storm moved further north. As we approached the brilliant white lightning went a weird bright lime green colour that didn't just light up the sky it lit up the road and surrounding landscape. For about 10 minutes it was like being in a scene from War of The Worlds as green flash after green flash lit up the sky like summer lightning, cause, erm... that’s what it was... D'oh...
Thank you and good night. Well that’s it. It was/is over.
It was now just the task of getting Anna home and myself back to work. So it was an alarm clock call of 4am with a 5.30am leave. I watched an amazing sunrise as we drove up the Motorway. Anna slept all the way. At 9am it was time for a Burger King breakfast.
Once we had arrived, it was lots of hugs for Anna and her mum and lots of cups of tea for me. Let the downloading of photos begin... 6 hours later... One or two issues evolved and I suddenly realised that I couldn't get back home in time to get to work for my 3am start. A quick phone call to the transport office and I was bumped along to 1pm.
Once the issues were sorted, someone came up with the idea to have a walk down the river and the castle. It was a nice and peaceful way to end our two week adventure. It couldn't have been more different to what we had just been doing. As we walked down to the river, we bumped into a 2012 Volunteer. We just fell about laughing. 350 miles from London and we bump into a volunteer.
As the time for leaving grew closer the adventure slowly and surely came a stop. No dramas. No big bangs. No fireworks. It kind of just crept up on us. A massive anti-climax. And that’s it? This is how it ends? I hadn't thought about the end. I'd never given it a second thought. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this.
Saying goodbye to Anna hurt. Really hurt.
Fuel up the car and I'm south bound. Then it happened. WTF? A few miles later and it happens again. Was that lightning? It was too. It lit up the far horizon. COME ON! I got further south as the storm moved further north. As we approached the brilliant white lightning went a weird bright lime green colour that didn't just light up the sky it lit up the road and surrounding landscape. For about 10 minutes it was like being in a scene from War of The Worlds as green flash after green flash lit up the sky like summer lightning, cause, erm... that’s what it was... D'oh...
Eventually, no thanks to the M6 and M5 and A34 being closed I got home at 2am. Two quick cups of tea and I staggered off to bed.
I guess an end is an end, but this wasn't the end I was expecting. I felt cheated.
To be continued...?
Noggin xx
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