sprinting like a lunatic.

Funniest moment ever happened last night. I still just start laughing because we looked like fools. I'll tell you why...

After dinner we all met up and headed towards the train station to print out the tickets. Abi had to stand in line forever because for some reason Jordy's ticket wouldn't come up and print. Even though we had paid for it over a week ago online.

As Abi and I were passing out tickets, we realized that we had 7 minutes to catch our train. Jordy still had no ticket. So we all start sprinting towards the stupid security line and find information desk guy to help. He started running and we were chasing him through a gate until he stopped, turned around, and walked us back to the information desk. He pulled out his translator and told us we missed the train. 

Out of nowhere this man walks up and speaks English really well.. He starts talking to like 4 information desk people and they tell us we have to go buy new tickets since we missed our train. This is all happening while Abi and Jordy are still trying to get her a ticket. (The ticket office is outside from where we all were and a little down the way.)

Once again, out of nowhere this lady walks up and tells us we have 10 minutes and she will get us on this train but we will just have standing tickets. I run to this little opening in a window and start screaming Abi's name. The lady told us we had to run, and Jordy didn't need a ticket. They start sprinting out of the ticket office and don't even go through security. Train station people are screaming in Chinese to tell the security to just let them through, as I'm trying to yell at Abi what's going on. 

By this point the train is supposed to leave in 5 minutes. Our interpreter guy tells us to follow this lady and to run!!! 8 girls with massive backpacks on, and some roller bags are sprinting by every single Asian and they are just staring. We sprint down this tunnel thing and round this corner. Stairs. After all the stairs that I had climbed the few days before there was no way my body was going to let me walk, let alone run up them. As we are sprinting like crazy up the stairs (yelling at each other to keep going) I can hear Chinese people telling us to hurry onto the train. Literally barely made it with 2 minutes to spare.

I was absolutely dying laughing because there was no way that all 8 of us just sprinted like lunatics through a freaking train station and caught the train!! People were giving us the weirdest looks as we were walking by to get to our, because they witnessed the crazy Americans almost missing a train that wasn't theirs! Good memories for sure though:)

loves.