What an Adventure

This weekend I went to Köln and Bonn. And I had a lovely time in both places - thank you Sandra! However, the real adventure started when I got home. I got off the Sbahn at my homestation and thought "Let's get my keys out." The thought immediately after that was "Oh Sh*t. NO! Wait, let's look."

Early Sunday morning I took the keys out of my backpack and placed them on the bed. I was thinking - "I'll need these later, and having them all the way on the bottom of the bag does no good. So I'll put them somewhere near the top." Except, I couldn't remember putting them back in the bag. Sure enough, they weren't in the bag. And a call to the hotel confirmed they were there. In Köln.

I have an extra set of keys and my loving boyfriend suggested putting them at work. I was going to do that last week. I just, well, never did.

Fortunately a call to Stefan solved the immediate problem of where to spend Sunday night - thank you Stefan! And thanks to my overpacking tendencies, I had enough unmentionables to make it another day. [Silly enough, I forgot my tooth brush though. Rinsing and brushing with your finger and lots of minty gum helps that problem though. ] And a few calls around to the Hausmeister and the Apartment Management got me the number of my landlord. Which I have! Funnily enough though, inside my house. Which I couldn't get into.

It all ends happily though. My landlord had an extra key and was going to be in the area anyway for an Apartment owners meeting, so I got into my house. Yea! And my regular keys are on their way here via Deutsche Post. They will hopefully arrive at work tomorrow. Whereupon I'll simply leave the extra keys there.

I'll post some photos with trip commentary tomorrow or Wednesday.

Posted by Jinglelady at October 19, 2004 12:53 AM | Traveling | TrackBack