so yes, everything was going fine…i had my music turned on full whack to block out all the commotion that was going on around me…what happened to different classes in airplanes…? there should be different sections depending on how much noise you are going to make…babies and young kids in one section…teenagers in another…drunk men, or just men in general, in another…and then people who know how to behave in another…seems about right.
i dozed a little but not much, because i was taking so many pictures…
where ever we were flying over, the mountains were so high that they were level with the plane, above the clouds, it was amazing…ive never seen anything like it before…
so yes…just before i could see ground, the second in comand, pilot person,came on the intercom and said…now we're just cruising at 30,000 feet…etc, going 800 something kilometers an hour, etc…we're just making our decent into dublin airport, where the temp on the ground is 12 degrees, and theres strong winds…blah blah…
nothing really new or exciting there…
anyways…started coming down…could see dublin, quite clearly…don't know if ive ever flown into dublin before. it was quite pretty really…
anyway…yes…so as we were coming down, the plane started wobbling, and rocking side to side and up and down…like…you know when you go over a hump in a car quite fast, and your stomach literally lifts inside you for a second…
yeh, thats what it was like, only ALOT…
side to side, rocking…like, it felt like there were cross winds, like when your driving and the car is being pulled…so like, he would over compensate for the plane pulling, then the plane would go too much in the other direction, or thats what it felt like anyway…
it was very scary…alex went a shade of green and then white, that i didn't think someone could turn, without immediately getting sick…i held her hand very tight and just thought… 'jesus…this mite be the end…fuck its going to hurt a lot'
alex told me that she thought of every good and bad thing she's ever done, and then thought of all the people she was going to miss'
id like to think that i was trying to remain positive, and that im not a robot…
so i was squeezing her hand and looking at her, because i just couldn't look out the window after awhile, it was upsetting me too much, to see everything going the way it was…people were hyperventilating…the stag party was instantly sobered up…there were people laughing, but i think it was nervous laughter…
then, just when the wheels should have touched down, the plane sped up and we shot straight back up into the air again…i think thats when i really really knew that there was something desperately wrong, and i stopped being brave...
yes, so back up...i looked back out the window to see that we were in fact climbing...alex looked like she was going to cry and throw up simultaneously...so i squeezed her hand harder...
once we were level, in the air again the second pilot came on the intercom again
"um...as you may have realized, we missed out landing there...the winds have evidently picked up in dublin, so were just going to circle around and come at it from a different angle..."
so then i thought...yeh...well were alive for now, the pilot did well to pull up when he did, or we would have either crashed touching down, or slammed into the new terminal..that would have been pretty shit...but what if its still too windy and we have to be diverted to shannon...will we have enough fuel...and even if we do have enough fuel, poor mum will have to drive all the way to shannon then...provided we don't crash in the meantime...etc etc...but mostly "YEH, WERE ALIVE...for now...hope to christ we stay this way..."
Al wasn't making any noise, she just looked like she was on the verge of a panic attack...
so i held her hand some more and told her it would all be ok...secretly freaking out in my own head...
After about 5mins back in the air, we started coming back down again...and eventhough it was still dodgy, we touched down fine...thank allah, buddah, jesus, ghandi, krishna, the man in the moon, god, mother nature and whoever else hand their hand under that plane, because, i really, genuinely thought we were goners...and the fact that alex thought the same, proves that im not exaggerating...
we were ten minutes late...as soon as the plane stopped moving, everyone shot up and it was the quickest ive ever gotten out of an aircraft, considering we were right over the wings...everyone just shot out of it...and yes...it was windy as FUCK...so im surprised we landed at all...
we just made a bee line for the exit signs...only having carry ons, thankfully...mum was a little late, because she had to find a parking space...etc etc...so i was trying to ring her with no avail...but she bumped into us as we were coming out of the toilet and she was going in...
then, because she was there, she wanted a starbucks...which they have upstairs...so we did that, and alex wanted a cheese burger...so we did that and me and mum got twisty fries ^_^
after that, we searched for the car...and thankfully mum wrote down the section and number of her spot, or we would have been looking a long long time...
but we found it eventually...threw the bags in...threw ourselves in:)
made our way OUT of dublin airport...and then put the foot down to get OUT of dublin altogether...effing hate that place...nothing ever goes right when im in it...the only times i think i genuinely enjoyed being in dublin were for fie's secret skins like parties...so...
got on the m50...went through the invisible toll...got on the n4 or whatever the road home is called...
went through that toll...
then just before mullingar...in the inside lane...me and mum were talking, alex was lying down in the back trying to snooze...the engine of the car cut...all the lights on the dash turned off...everything just turned off...mum put on her hazards and indicated to go to the hard shoulder, and thank fuck the steering wheel didn't lock or we would have be doubly screwed...pulled in, turned everything off, except the hazards...and the speed of the cars passing shook the car with such force...i am so glad we got pulled in and weren't left sitting in the middle of the road or we would have been mince meat...:(
tried turning the car back on...all the warning lights were coming on...every single one of them...mum rang dad...and after about half an hour of us sitting there, and mum trying it again and again, every couple of minutes...it eventually started
we took her fairly handy all the way home then...thinking it mite just decide to DIE again...but it was all gravy.
longest drive home ever tho...
i thought we would never get there because me and mum were just stress heads in the car, hoping that we wouldn't get stranded...while al conked out in the back... :) poor thing :(
we nearly got wiped off the map as well...because we were meeting this very long, lite up lorry on a tiny narrow road, don't ask me where...and he was carrying this massive like...digger thing...but it was way too wide for his flat bed...so if mum hadn't moved over, even though it was purr luck that she did, because it wasn't lit up, there was no like reflectors along the side or flags or anything...the side/top of our car would have been opened like a cheap can of sardines...and that would have been the end of mother...i nearly had heart failure when the truck passed us out...thankfully alex was asleep...she would have actually died if she had seen it...
we also nearly squished a rabbit...but he moved just in the nick of time...
dropped off alex at hers, cuz she wanted to see her mummy and daddy...she was all sleepy and stuff...when we were pulling up, i think it was her dad or possible andy, went to the window to spy on who was in their driveway...
then me and mum went home...
dad was there waiting for us...i filled him in on all my near death experiences...and about austria as well...then he and mum went off to bed, and i went online for awhile and skyped the boy for a bit, which was nice. its nice being about to see and talk to him at the same time...im sure its nice for him too :)
and then, i literally crashed, because i was so wrecked, i just couldn't stay awake anymore...
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