Crazy journey | Dream Dance

We were the first year in the youth category (Patrik 16, Silvia 14). Slovakia hosted the European 10 Dance Championships. We were the only couple that represented Slovakia, because only the champion from each country gets a nomination for the 10-dance Championship.
And so we felt a great responsibility for representing our country.
We prepared for a long time, we completed big a lot of training sessions and we had many individual lessons with coaches from all over the world.
Just before our important competition we finished our preparation with a training session in London. We tried to prepare as well as possible, we trained for several hours every day until late in the evening. Everything worked as it should. We were very well prepared physically and mentally and we only had to travel back one day before the competition.
We wanted to be sure that we would be at the airport on time. We got there and we had 3 hours until our flight.
We said to ourselves, UP TO 3 HOURS???
We thought there was no point in going to the plane so early, so we went for a coffee and a cookie to relax :).
Even now when I think about it, it gives me chills...
When we had an hour and a half until departure, we decided to go to the plane. Like every passenger, we also had to go through control.
However, they didn't want to let us go through one suitcase, so they sent it again for control.
It's no secret that there are huge airports in London, where it's usually unreal number of people and it took about another half an hour.
Nerves, stress, tension in us rose at an extreme speed.
When they started to announce that the doors of our plane were closing in a moment, Patrik ran with our other suitcases to plane and I waited for the last one, which by pure chance contained important documents...
Finally, when they opened our suitcase and found out that there was nothing there, there was no time to think, only to run.
And really I just ran and ran and I have to say that the journey seemed endless.
I held my bag and suitcase in one hand and the phone in the other, because I was on the phone with Patrik, who had the task of delaying the plane as much as possible. (Like in the movie hahaha)
After 15 minutes of running I managed to catch up and luckily they let us in :).
I boarded the plane last and all eyes were on us, but when we finally sat down so I didn't understand what all happened in an hour and a half.
The whole preparation could have been wasted, but in the end everything turned out fantastic.
No one knew about our crazy journey full of stress and we danced for Slovakia in 4th place at European Championships.