Catastrophe. Nothing too major...just temporarily locked out of a hotel room....and then we lost 4 players and a dad...no big deal...
We were rushed!! Running around, showering, speeding to change clothes, eat and RUN to the train. We soon realized that 4 players were locked out of their rooms? The keys don't work? we can't break in? The hotel can't fix it...and we have 28 minutes to catch a train. We had everyone showering in different rooms, borrowing clothes, grabbing shoes, finding makeup, and basically running around like a bunch of chickens with our heads cut off. Grabbing nuggets, fruit, brownies, pizza, anything we could and walking and eating, and dodging vehicles, people, and tree limbs. Mostly I was dodging those, due to my height.
After sprinting, most of us with soaking wet hair, some in each others clothes and shoes, we all made it successfully to the train...everyone but Laura J. Luckily she made it to the Union Station in time to meet us for site seeing and dinner :)
Post dinner and seeing the bean, pier, etc....we had a plan...
We had the plan to leave dinner and take taxis to the train station, that was a great plan, until we shut the doors and sent the vans, cabs, etc on their way only to arrive at the station in waves and not all be together but rather to be with a mixture of random people not knowing where to go!
When I paid for the cab I turned around and I was alone...not good. Luckily I had my phone, but I still only had about 8 minutes until the train left...
I am standing there, kinda freaking out, and I hear "HALEY!! Come this way!!" Thank goodness Jordan saved the day...
But when I got the train not everyone was there, Angie and I were running around and could not figure out where everyone was? the doors were closing and we saw down a few cars, the rest of our parents!!! OUR GROUP WAS ON THE TRAIN! YAY!
Only we soon realized that we did NOT have everyone, we were missing a few players, we looked every where and we could not find them...and what was worse was that we did not know which adult jumped in that car with them? Was there a parent? Oh man! We are all concerned....and then we realized...we were missing the Asian Man. And yes, he was with our four missing girls...Anne, Lara, Pepper and Taylor were with Owen in a cab.... but they missed the train!!!
They took a $150 cab back to Aurora. But all are safe. And Mr. Chin was not pleased that we all left him. He likes us. But he is mad at us. But the good news is, Anne taught him how to "leh go"
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