England - Day Ten

Today marked our departure from Dorset. We gave ourselves plenty of time to get ready. We had planned to meet Erik & Amy at the train station at 9am so that they could help me return our rental car. As we packed our last minute things I noticed that our camera was nowhere to be found. A quick conversation with Emily revealed that we must have left it in Abbotsbury. We left a message for Erik and Amy to take a quick look for it before leaving to meet up with us.

We got to the train station just on time and Erik and Amy hadn't been able to find the camera. Erik and I returned the car, but not before a giant double decker bus tried to smash me like a bug in the parking lot. Amy and Emily found this very humorous. No hassles from the horrible car company whatsoever. Just as Erik and Amy were saying goodbye her Mum, Chris, called - she found the camera! Huzzah! Luckily we were super early for the train so she had plenty of time to run it in to us, which was extremely kind of her. We said our goodbyes to Erik the Groom, and Amy the Bride.

Back on the train we bought some sandwiches and played games while taking in the English countryside.

Ephraim had an awesome nap and by the time he got up we were off the train and already in the hotel room in Crawley, so we headed to the nearby shopping centre so Ephraim could ride his favourite play vehicle…

This above photo is not a good representation of his level of happiness from playing on the bus.

Emily bought a small mountain of children's books and then we headed off for food. Amy had mentioned that one of her favourite places to go to dinner was Pizza Express, and so we decidedly that it wouldn't be right to leave the UK without trying a recommendation from the Bride.

It was delicious, and pretty fancy for a place with the word 'express' in the title. We were delighted to learn that our server had once lived in Toronto near High Park. Small world.

After, we went on a short walk only to learn that the stores here pretty much close up shop at 6pm. Ephraim got the last of his energy out by rolling around on the (kinda filthy) sidewalks.

Tomorrow we head home. It's a day flight so it should be interesting to see how to keep Ephraim entertained the entire time in a tiny spot. I'll be sure to keep a complete record of our efforts.