Mabes in London (Day numero uno)

Okay, will TRY to condense what transpired during Mabes' visit as much as possible. Considering she was in London over 1 weekend only,it was AMAZING how we managed to cramp SOOO many activities over 2 days!!

Gatwick A/P (Fri, 22 Sept): Day 1(actually Night 1)
6:30pm: Danielle and I left home to take the Tube from Clapham South to London Bridge station, then hopped onto a 'surface rail' train, the First Capital Connect, non-stop to Gatwick, North Terminal. The whole trip (door-to-door) took us all of 1 hour! And I 'survived' Danielle throughout the journey, sans buggy even! Woo hoo! :)

But Mabes sms-ed to say her flight's delayed by 15 min. Bugger.

8pm: In between waiting, Danielle and I amused ourselves by praticising holding out the Welcome sign I'd made for her, and 'challenging' each other at Daytona in the A/P's mini game arcade. No coins of course! Danielle had problems holding the sign in the right direction and ended up flashing it at people WAITING for passengers to arrive instead! Alamak... She flashed it at drivers waiting to pick their clients up, she flashed it at different groups of families, she flashed it at A/P staff... It was a hoot to watch and thank goodness everyone was tickled by her. Kekeke!

Finally, Mabes arrived around 850pm and thankfully this time, Danielle had her Welcome sign up and facing the RIGHT direction! Phew!

Mabes was starving and 'knackered', so thankfully I had gotten her bed (Danielle's actually) ready and had a chicken herbal soup simmering on 'Low' in the crockpot at home. Arrived back at our place around 10pm and after settling all her luggage down (most of the stuff was for us actually, pai say!), we sat down for our first meal together followed by present opening ceremony! Yippee! Really like the grocery bag you bought, B. It's so handy! I'm sure the TESCO staff will give me 'green' points for not using their plastic bags! And thanks for the many, many books you got Danielle (Eng/Chinese)! Have started reading some to her already . Mabes also got us pineapple tarts from Bengawan Solo (clever girl!), stroopwaffles from Amsterdam, and a belated bday present - a pretty pair of shoes for me!

Dee came home at around 10ish (shocking, I know. He had to catch up with work after his trip to Bournemouth, see) and the 3 of us then sat down for more chickie soup. Chit-chatted till about 1am... then it was off to bed for the super 'knackered' girl!

* Was soooo thrilled to receive 2 copies of the latest '8 Days'. One from B and the other from Mabes. Read them till 2ish am! Super deprived! Oh man...