After a long week of waiting for Kath to call me I rang her, as per usual the answer phone picked up "Hi this is Kath, please leave a message after the tone." Rang through my head, as I put the phone down, annoyed at myself for not waiting for her to call me.
I was just about to go to bed when the phone rang; it was Kath, my heart jumped at the sound of her voice, as I had been waiting so long for it. I almost slammed the phone down but I decided to listen to what she had to say hopping that she would apologise for the way she left when she called on me, but it didn't happen "I am taking a long weekend this weekend and going hiking in the Yorkshire Dales, are you coming or don't you want any more of what we had last time? Kath said bluntly.
Without thinking I replied "Yes."
"Be ready on Friday I will pick you up." She said putting the phone down before I had any chance of replying.
I rang her back but got the answer phone once more, so I let it go and waited until Friday.
When Friday came I woke up in the early hours of morning to what I hoped would be the first day of an adventure that I would never forget. I had got my hiking gear ready and by 8 o'clock I was dressed ready for what ever the Yorkshire dales could throw at me. By 1 o'clock there was no sign of Kath and I guessed that I had been stood up, but as I finally gave up her car pulled up on the drive.
"So sorry Linnet, things just got out of hand today come on lets go." She said as she pushed her way through the door grabbing my hand and rucksack pulling me out the door as if I was a child having a tantrum. I pulled the door behind me as she yanked me towards the car.
Four and half hours later we were pulling into an elegant Georgian Country House nesting in surrounded by the breathtaking scenery of the Yorkshire Dales. "This is us." Kath said, not giving me chance to say anything she was out of the car and walking up to the hotels doors.
Seconds later a porter came out and collected our bags and I followed him into the foyer sheepishly, Kath had booked us in and the porter escorted us to our room and laid our bags on the bed. I looked around and thought the hotel was beautifully furnished with English antiques with a stylish warm dΓ©cor the weather looked bleak but I was assured that it was going to change for the better on Saturday.