21/04/16
So it’s around 19:00 , sitting down enjoying my dinner before beginning to get ready to go pick 1st born up from his trip , then the phone rings “ dad , I lost my passport & wallet, think they were nicked either on the train or just when we got off ” well FUCK, cue a couple of hours of phone calls and emails, online searching sorting out , appointment at embassy for emergency passport (11:00 on the 22/04 , if this had happened on the 22nd think he would have been there until the 25th , spoke to the emergency number for London ,they told me no an e-mailed copy won’t do if he has no id on him at all then he won’t be granted the passport , I had his bankcard and driving license in my hand lol) hotel for 1st born for the night with no id , Yotel said yes no worries , immigration said no it’s past us and you can’t go without id, with police direction’s (airport police were very helpful) finally got him to and booked by e-mail a room at the Ibis (police report helped with no id), flight out for me at 06:00, flights home for both of usthe next night (roughly £300 lol) which the embassy wanted to see proof of once we were there.
Finally had all this sorted and 1st born in his room around 00:00 uk time, roll a couple of joints & relaxxxxxxxxx lol Wifey got a few hours sleep in.
So quick sorting out of things at home little bag packed , off to the airport around 03:30, dropped off around 04:00 , straight through , onto plane, get my seat no-one next to me then , now those that have met me will know I’m not to skinny but the 2 people that sat next to me , fuck , I was pushed half out of my seat into the aisle, thank fuck the whole row in front of us was empty , soon as I heard , everyones aboard , I was up and into the empty row lol, much better .
Walking towards Schiphol station around 08:10 (was around a 50 min flight TSA



Anyway letting him stash his bag again (just dirty clothes now) off we go , heading south in the general direction of the UK Embassy which is just south of Vondel Park (roughly half way through the park) take a detour into Bettys , might stay a while, remember I have 1st borns license so he’s good to stay , have a look at the SSH , grab a g , ask to see the OG it may have been , “ look I’ve just opened and need to sort everything out , if you give me 20 mins you can look what you like” I resisted a why not just open in 20 mins today was not the day for added stress & went for “ alright mate , we’ll go roll up over there “so 2 j’s of SSH rolled, “ cheers mate , see you later” off we go sort of following the map as far as we can sort of high wandering in “this”

*** between Bettys & Vondel we had 3 near misses with trams fuuuuuuuck moooooove lol***
Was going to pass into Crush as it’s been a few years but must have took a wrong turn as we ended up at 1 of the eastern end park entrances instead, checked the park map and wandered off towards our exit to the embassy ,to my shame I’d never been to Vondel Park before so I did enjoy the wander in the sunshine , was pretty busy to my eyes, when I’m back I’ll visit again .
So found our way to the embassy around 10:15 , checked in , “put all electronic devices in the locker please” , helpful guy in the embassy , gets to about 11:30 ,” right gents that’s all done(£100) if you’d like to go and have a coffee or something then pop back in about an hour we will have the emergency passport ready for you & then you can print your boarding passes out “ “ right cheers mate , nice 1 thank-you for the help, yeah we’ll pop to a coffeeshop and see you in a bit”
Wander back through the park , along Overtoom and up to Boerejongens , 1st born has been telling about the GSC bloc & OG bloc I think ?, so grab a ½ g of both & go into the little room to roll a few
Both very nice crimble with such little effort but the GSC is the better, crept up and gave me lead legs lol
Back to Overtoom , little walk about, see CS Vondel & a toasty place , they will both do once we have the passport sorted , wander again through the park , quite a few more dog owners and cyclists are out for the afternoon , passport sorted & straight into my pocket lol , boarding passes printed guy gives us directions to the tram back to Central but we know where we’re off to,
Toasty shop 1st , cheap , clean and friendly ham and cheese is ok
Into CS Vondel , 2 guys around 1st born’s age at counter raving about the strawberry haze and the mango haze they had yesterday ,” can I smell the strawberry and mango please” “mango’s out but got loads of strawberry” take a smell , ffs lol “ no mate I don’t want that chemical shit “ “ah ok you want real weed not this tourist shit” pmsl fair play to him he then said the only 2 worth having were the WW & Bubblegum , WW didn’t look or smell good but the BG turned out to be quite a nice sweet smoke , grabbed a drink and chilled in there smoke room, used the toilet, door handle fell off on inside,found that f'ing hilarious

Leaving CS Vondel walked in a general direction of Centrum , ended up walking past Grey Area , wtf it’s empty , in we go , get a “ how can we help you “ from both bt’s , have a look at the cheese and maui mist both looked good but with getting cheese all the time at home took a g of the maui , bloody nice it was to nice uppy not to strong just bloody nice
Wandered up to La Grotte picking up some macarons for Wifey on the way , get an upstairs table order up a drink and some frites and get rolling chill a while enjoying my frites & ketchup when for reasons only known to his high/stoned/tired self 1st born reaches over and taps his ash not in the ashtray but straight in my ketchup then just looks at me with a “what” look on his face before he realises and dissolves into hysterics , tit, taking his ketchup & keeping it well away from him I continue enjoying my frites

Head to the hotel to pick up 1st borns bag then decide to plot up in Voyagers until our train , think I got a g of stardawg , chilled in the smoke room a while , Trashcanman popped in , great to see you again mate , we had a little smoke , Stan popped in , great to see you to mate , said other ACDers were going to Utopia so he was off , TC fair play decided to smoke on with us then walked to with us on our way to the staion , cheers mate
Finished a smoke outside the station, check my pockets for the 1000th time and did a passports, wallet,phone check lol and off we go .
All checked in , 1st born leads me outside to a set of benches for a final smoke , get a iAmsterdam piccy , grab a BK munch that down , 1st born’s emergency passport gets checked, checked and re-checked , onto the plane quick enough though (another 50min flight TSA

Through to security , now I could have gone through the self scan /2-3 mins and your through jobby but with 1st born’s emergency passport no chance , so an hour of queuing later and a grinning guy on the desk is asking “what happened ?blah blah blah, you do know I have to take this passport?” “ I don’t care mate I’m home , have it” .
Outside, Wifey and daughter turn up soon enough and home we go , joint of cheese once home and some well needed sleep , been up since 07:00 the day before

Once everything was sorted and the stress levels fell all was good but I don’t think I fancy ever doing a daytrip again lol



Also once back home we worked out that if 1st born had just given me £500 to come along to 420 he would have still saved himself around £200 overall


Until next time , stay safe and have fun ACD


