Has something been missing from your life? Have you been feeling empty? Are you yearning for something you just cannot seem to find?? We have the answer; you have been having Ashleigh and Hannah blog withdrawals, but never fear! We are back in business.
We will be back to finish this soon, we have been distracted by the male swimmers at the European Championships..
Ok, you now have our full attention again.
Jokes, that was the semi-final, there are more semi-naked men for the finals now
Ok, where were we..
Monday was yet another day in the fields, although by now we could see the light. We had just three days to go.. We were begining to celebrate already. We finished the day with a beautiful base ride in the evening, concluding at a late night cafe where we enjoyed Hannahs’ last Hot Chocolate as an 18year old.
That night saw Secret Squirrel business as Ashleigh filled the bedroom, lounge and kitchen with balloons. They even has faces, everyone was at the party. She also ‘prepared’ a cake, if you count artistically arranging various cupcakes as cake preparing. Haha. There were of course also candles, a card, chocolate and presents. Oh! And how could we forget the home made JELLYTIP!!
Tuesday was of course filled with celebrations early morning. Then we went off high on ice cream and chocolate and cake into the flower fields once more. It was a somewhat shortened day when the Boss told us we could be done for the day when we reached a certain point in the flowers, needless to say we hit the NOS button and rocket through the work to finish in just 4 hours. Sweet deal. We even did some intervals before evening celebrations began. Aren’t we good! After a private bus trip we found ourselves at an Italian Pizzeria before welcoming a friend of Hannah’s fresh from Switzerland. Perfect timing on his behalf.
Wednesday was a bit more of a gentle day as we entertained our guest and recovered from what may have been a late night before. We got to play the role of the locals and toured the most beautiful road in Holland, the Belkmerweg, and of course the local coffee attractions. We then winged our way to Amsterdam (on the train, which funnily enough has a very similar affect to being on a boat for Hannah sometimes, entertaining for the rest of us at least).There was of course the tour of the touristy things followed by the shopping spree after our delightful pay package. It was a bit of a pathetic spree on the spending front, but we did enjoy trying everything on and parading around before making our selective purchases (from the bargain bin).
Thursday we had another day of recuperation; while Ashleigh tackled more of a particularly large assignment which she had done particularly little of up to this point. We cannot really recall how Han spent her day, it must have been very productive though and surely she made some kind of big step in her life that day. We also had the experience of the “Sand Hill Training”, never again. We went because then we could say that we had been and that we did not want to go again. That, and they also bribed us into giving it ago by saying we could go camel riding in exchange for our efforts. Who wouldn’t want to go run up and down a very big sand dune when a camel ride was on the cards? Haha. WE ARE GOING TO RIDE SOME CAMELS. Heck yeah!
Friday we awoke to the news that there was no more work for us! Very exciting, but then again it meant that we had to delete some of the ways we had spent our money in our heads, because we weren’t going to earn it. Training on Friday was harsh, we decided that after so much walking, running in the sand dunes and a few late nights the best thing to do would be a 3 hour base ride with a 15 second spring every 3 mins. Thanks Carl Paton for that one, you put ideas in Ivar’s head
