torsdag 12. februar 2009

Friday 13th must have been on thursday.

It's been snowing like crazy here lately.

Today I went to pick Sandra up at the airport. And I think the ride back home was a ride neither of us will ever forget!

First, I was driving real slow to the airport because of all the snow, so I was 15 minutes late for picking her up. I felt really bad, poor girl :( But that was just the beginning of it.

You see, the airport is on an island. And in order to get to/fro the airport you have to drive through two tunnels. The problem nowadays is, right now they're doing some construction work in the tunnels. They close them at 6 pm to work, which means, after that you have to take a ferry to Ålesund!

As it was almost 6, we figured out we wouldn't make it through both tunnels in time and decided on taking the ferry. But where the hell was the ferry??

We asked the guy at the gas station. Oh, just right after the bridge, take a left and follow the signs... Great, well the signs were all white because of the snow! Thank's a lot man.

So we headed left.. Hmm, no signs. But after a phone call we were assured that "we would see the ferry, just keep on going straight". And there it was.. on the left side. We thought! A ferry!

But the road down seemed very little travelled. This couldn't be it? We kept on driving, constantly looking for a road down on the left hand to the ferry we had seen. After a while, when there were still no signs of any roads on the left side, we turned around and headed back for the ferry. Took the road down.. And guess what: a fishing boat!

But - luckily - some guys working on the boat were heading for the ferry, and we could follow them... Follow me, he said, and drove hastily away from us... Wait! I drove after, trying to reach him, up the hilll, back on the main road, and .. oops! We got stuck on the ditch!

Soo.. we finally had some nice guy pull us out of the ditch, and after waiting another 45 minutes for the next ferry, we were finally getting a little bit closer to Ålesund.

What a trip!

Sandra's plane arrived at 17.25. At 20.15 we finally arrived at my house.

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