our first connection from metz to forbach got cancelled today which meant we couldnt make the other 2 connections to get to munich where we were taking the night train to budapest. even the staff were like, the earliest you can get there is tomorrow morning and we’re like ‘non, a’jourd hui!’ but they just shake their heads. so we stared at the board, and on a whim “let’s go to nancy” one stop over just to see what trains there were. and when we’re there, we see the next train’s heading to strasbourg “its on the border of france and germany, maybe there’s something there, let’s go!” and when we’re there (after getting a dinner of happy meal. mhm it came with a deck of cards, and apples and grapes), we found a high-speed train to stuttgart and managed to get train passes half off from the train manager. there, a 2 minutes transit, barely making it and finally, a train to munich. which arrived a minute before our night train was to leave. with all the germans on the trains cheering us on, we hopped off, ran, and hopped on the train, laughing and giggling and collapsing in relief. i can’t actually believe we made it when the train systems couldnt even find us a route. plus one for spontaneously

so after a day of exploring, sight-seeing and alotalotalot of eating, we’ll all snuggled up in a cosy homely hostel. we each get an entire bunk bed, and the whole room to ourselves. my stuff are piled up on the upper bunk and jimmy has crawled up there to nestle himself closest to the light to read. sunil had just passed me the pdf files of the entire song of fire and ice series, tossed in the thumbdrive from the red velvet sofa in the corner of the room. diana’s in front of me trying to make our midnight deadline for stats. we spent dinner planning out possible road trips in US for spring break. not at all getting ahead of ourselves. lovely company, delicious food, one heck of an adventure and an amazing young city full of secrets to unearth.

happy.