Guinnes World Records - Cologne

Take That in Cologne? We need to be there as well... and especially since it's only a few hundred kilometers away! So Els and Nathalie decided to go... We would leave early morning, but that plan changed quickly when Els got this feeling she had to leave earlier...
So around midnight, she picked up Nathalie and we left for our adventure.

A 5 hour battle against sleep later (in Nathalie's case), they had arrived in Cologne, bought our environmental sticker and went to the airport.
We had breakfast at McDonalds at 6am (never done that before!) and because Nathalie fell asleep over breakfast, Els decided to go back to the car to have a nap.

Nathalie soon felt better, unfortunately Els felt worse... But the thought they might get to see Take That today, made it all worth it.

No such luck at the airport though! So that means off to the radio station. We choose Radio Eins Live, since Mark and Jason would be there. This was soon confirmed, when the German fans said they were on the radio... But no-one saw them going in....
Big search in the radiobuilding where we got kicked out, bigger search in the parking lot. This is where Nathalie saw a member of staff of Radio Eins Live, who told her where the van would exit.
Plan of action: park close and block the van! So we did! Els was sure to have seen Mark in the car and she said he waved... (He probably did not wave but gestured we should move but hey! let's dream!) Later that evening we learned that indeed she saw Mark in the van. Cannot mis that sexy hat of his!
We followed the van in first position, but soon fell back to third and than even forth. At the final traffic lights it was too dangerous to follow the van more, but it seemed we were at the hotel...
Fase 1 of mission completed: we found the hotel. Great driving Els!

Booked a room , got a bit crazy and than went downstairs for a long wait...

To make a long story of waiting short, we saw Howard coming back from the show, he took the flag with our custom made M&M's (gave me a thorough but strange look straight in the eyes) and told us the rest had left again for the UK.

The next morning our alarm clock woke us up way too early, which basically means we turned around again and fell asleep again.... Oh no! We overslept?!
Quick change and off to breakfast! We would make it more of a brunch, since we did not want to miss a change of seeing the lovely Mr. Donald munching away....
Unfortunately we did not get this pleasure....

We thought by now our adventure was almost over without seeing any of them properly... We guessed wrong! While we were checking out, Howard and Lola come to reception to check out as well...
What a beautiful view we had! And how great it is to see him enjoy his youngest daughter so much!

That was the perfect ending to a 2 - day adventure!
Back to Belgium and start dreaming of our next adventure...