Our last day and last night at the west coast was planned to be legendary! And it was...but in kinda different way than expected!
On our way to Las Vegas we have to go to a Walmart store because of one simple reason. In the beginning of our trip we bought 4 sleeping-bags, one huge tent and two furry hoodies well and now, at the end of the trip, it was useless for us anymore so we decided to be very discontented with it. They bought it and gave us all the money back so we "earned" about 60 dollars each :D - very useful when going to Las Vegas! :)
At first we wanted to check in in the hotel Misa and Bara rented so we parked our car at the parking lot right in front of the hotel. During the time that Misa and Bara were taking care of the keys and stuff I wanted to get my things in my backpack so I took it off the trunk and went to the car for the rest of my stuff.
Now I know it was the stupidest thing E.V.E.R! As I was collecting my things in the car (for like 20 seconds) my backpack was stolen! I had there all my stuff- my clothes, all souvenirs!!! that I bought on the road-trip, cosmetics, everything. And what is most important, even my PASSPORT! (so nothing valuable for those fuckers!)
But fortunately my camera, wallet and cell-phone was in the car so they didn´t steal it. That was my only luck!
At first I went to the security guy to tell him what happened, then I called my dad (it was 3.15am in Slovakia) and then we went to a police station. You know what? There is NO police station open after 5pm in Las Vegas! No kidding! So I have to wait till 9am to go to police station to get a police report! Between that I called to every possible number- all embassies, emergency lines and stuff but nothing was helpful at all. I was reconciled with the fact that I will have to go back to LA to the Slovak Embassy, buy new air tickets to DC and also back to Slovakia- because as I was told by the lady on the emergency line- I had no chance to make it on my flight back home.
I was broken but also not ready to give up! I wrote my friend D. about my situation and because he knows everything he was really helpful. He gave me a number to some guy from LA so I gave him a call and he ensured me that if I have some ID with my photo on it, they let me go on the flight from Las Vegas to DC. Fortunately my wallet wasn´t stolen so I had my driving license and my ISIC (student ID)
In the morning Niki and I went to a police station to write a police report and we got about 2 hours to get to the airport. We made it and they let me fly back to DC! They made some more precautions but because I had almost nothing left it didn´t take that long :)
We got safely back to DC where I had an appointment at the Slovak Embassy early in the morning the other day. Fortunately I got every document needed even extra photo for the Emergency Passport. It lasted only about 45 minutes!
We spent one more day in DC with Niki and were ready to go back home. Well...not quite ready- if it was possible we would stay in California for ever, but it was time to go home.
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