Some things are just meant to be Part 1: What if?

Hi all, as you know I have just came back from St. Petersburg. To me, it's really like the perfect vacation. You met problems, but it's the problem that made the entire trip really fun and adventurous. What if I had not met this problem, would the trip be this fun? What if Karola and I decided not to go St Petersburg (SPB), what would happen?

In my next few posts, I will post many What-If questions just to prove that some things are just meant to be.

We arrived back from SPB @11:53PM and decided to go to the station, Park Kultry which we often go to (Every sunday for me and I always avoid rush hour), to see what is the situation like. We arrived there and saw no signs of explosion at all, just people paying respects, giving flowers, crying, etc.. heard that it was very chaotic on the day of attack, like there were human and train jams, but life still goes on. Here are some pictures taken locally:

1st What if: What if Karola and I decided not to go to SPB or we decide on other dates and not this weekend?
I would not have met the accident because I only take metro during off-peak hours. I would have to take my international marketing mid term test. I would have gone to tulag city which I heard from the others that it is more for old people. I would have gone for my first Pivo (Beer) Management party. I would have celebrated Maxime and Sahraida's birthday with them on Sunday and probably the weekend would just be another typical weekend. But, I went to SPB.

Day 0:
Our train was 1:05am, 27th Mar 2010. I meet Karola in her room at 11pm. But before that, many people visited me. Marina came by to share some SPB's photo with me, Allen came to chat with me for a while, Vadim came to chat with me for a while, Karola came to ask me if I'm ready.. etc. I was busy researching on where to go etc.. so I finished packing my stuffs only at 9pm haha.

So finally it was 11pm, we head out with a excited heart because we don't know what to expect. As we walk to the train station, we do the talking checklist:
K: Hostel booked?
G: Checked
K: Do you know how to go to the hostel?
G: Yes, Checked. Did you bring your passport?
K: Yes, checked. Train tickets?
G: Checked. etc..

Finally we arrived at Leningradsky Station. I know the place because I went to Tver through this station. Everything was going smoothly although I know I forgot to bring my comfortable pants for sleeping. We waited for the train as we were 1.5 hours earlier. the train lane was not shown yet. So we walked around, had a nice cup of hot milk chocolate and then walk to the train platform. Everything was so dark etc, because they switched off the lights. They only switch it on when the train move.

Our place was right beside the toilet. There's a door which opens and close if you wanna go to the toilet. I got the bed upstairs and Karola got the bed downstairs. Of course it's not the comfortable kind of bed, but still it was still sleepable. It was kind of cool. You can somehow flip the table into a bed. So Karola slept on the "table" and I slept on the bed on top of her. I can't sit up straight on my bed. But I was so tired. So I just slept anyway. Woke up a few times because the bed was hard and I felt numbness on my arms.


TBC...