I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream

I thought I heard something in the small hours of Sunday morning. I thought I heard rain. I closed my eyes harder, hoping I was wrong. Then I hoped that it would rain itself out by about 10 am, when we might get going to the park. I hoped.

( We had a really good, if rainy, day at a really good, if better than that, amusement park. And what did we get to buy for 1.80 euros and get gypped on the change on because we only had two-euro coins? The answer may surprise you! (Hint: xolo will like hearing about it.) )

After some more walking around town we returned to the hotel, confident that while we had lost hours in Efteling due to not knowing how early it might close on Saturday, and more time due to showers Sunday, we had at least got to all the roller coasters and the biggest attractions, and we could be satisfied with that. We were wrong.

Trivia: Four days before the opening of the 1976 Montreal Olympics, work crews dismantled and destroyed an outdoor art and photographic exhibit along the marathon route which included art critical of the city's demolition of single-family housing (and some 19th-century mansions) in favor of high-rise apartments and commercial offices. A provincial court compensated the artists five years later. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.

Currently Reading: Creatures Of Accident: The Rise Of The Animal Kingdom, Wallace Arthur.