Isn′t life always like this?

Back from my first trip to South America I can proudly say: Mission accomplished (to dare to take things a step further in 2016!) It wasn′t an easy one though! Travelling (far away) is one of many of my inexplicable fears. If I think about it, I don′t even know why I am so afraid of it. I use several excuses like an upset stomach when travelling, difficulties with finding a cat sitter etc. After having done it, what can I say….. Actually, just something that I already knew before: life always comes different than you think!

I was scared to death to not make it alive from Rio de Janeiro airport to the hotel and planned each step from my arrival until the hopefully successful (and alive) arrival to the hotel. Obviously, I have made it.

Whilst being obsessed with (the total exagerated) fear of getting killed, robbed or taken somewhere against my will, I had to deal with something very different that had nothing to do with the above. I had to learn to deal with the unexpected. The thing you can′t really plan for or change when it happens: Rain. Rio. Summer. 4 days. Exactly the 4 days before all my friends would arrive. Here I was in raining Rio, crying in my hotel room and sending self-feeling sorry mails to my friends back in Barcelona. Until after two days and really unreal heavily rainfalls something made me surrender to this situation and laugh about it. It was just so funny and so unreal, that I could only smile about it (after the crying). And guess what, just when I made peace with the rain, the sun came out.

Isn′t life always like this?