Restless train journey

I took Daniel to Leeds to meet Terry for lunch yesterday. Normally i would just drive to Leeds, as it is just 40 minutes Motorway driving. But yesterday I decided to take train as a change. The fast train from where we live to Leeds would just take 32 minutes, plus 15 minutes walk to the train station, so it would be just under an hour journey, i thought, and it would give Daniel some fresh experience. Though it's not the first time for Daniel to be on a train, it was the first time I took him on train on my own. Terry was a bit worried about how I manage to get on and off train with Daniel, buggy and shopping, but i assured him it would be fine... I checked the train timetable on line in the morning before we set off, allowed 25 minutes to walk to the station to catch up the 10:12am fast train to Leeds. We got there 5 minutes earlier, however just to found out the intended service was cancelled, the next service would be a slow one which take nearly an hour to get Leeds and also there would be another 20 minutes waiting. Never mind! ! I was like thinking why i was so unlucky with train? This was the second time in a year when i used a train service and it went wrong. last time when i used a train service was when I serviced my car, the intended train back home was cancelled and was replaced by a bus service, which went every village and eventually took me 2 hours to get home for otherwise a 50 minutes journey. Anyway, i didn't feel that frustrated yesterday apart from the next train was so packed due to the cancelled fast servie. On boarding the train we just managed to find a seat next to the aisle. Daniel was so restless that he kept wanting to struggle off my lap, lucky i took some toys to distract him. However toys only kept him occupied for a little while, the next thing he found interesting was the newspaper that a neighbour gentleman was reading, Daniel tried to grab the newspaper a few times, but didn't succeed as i moved his hand away., then another lucky thing that kept Daniel still was that he found the conversation going on between two Indian doctors across the aisle was so interesting that he kept gazing at them, occasionally the lady and the young gentleman stopped their conversation to give Daniel a friendly smile.. Daniel fell asleep in my arm the last 10 minutes train journey.

We got Leeds just before 12am, met Terry at city Square and had lunch together in a Asian buffet restaurant near train station. Afterwards Terry went to back to his office neawr train station, Daniel and me went to shopping. The return journey was much more smooth. We got on the fast service as we intended at 1516 and the train was a lot more emptier and fast, Daniel got a spare seat to jump up and down and we got home just after 4pm.