The trip was off to a good start. Our flight on Delta was on time and uneventful. As normal neither one of us managed to sleep much if at all on the flight. Immigration was a little slow, but that meant our bags were waiting for us when we came out.
We arrived at the storage place for François at 11am and he was waiting for us in front as promised. A quick look around and everything seemed ok. We turned on everything and it worked. So far so good.
The next stop was a local grocery near the storage to pick up enough food to last a couple of days while we recovered from jet lag. Our shopping was a little disjointed as we were pretty jet lagged, but after about 30 minutes we had a slightly weird selection of food, but adequate for a day or two until we got out for a proper shop.
The drive over to the campground was stop and go, the worst traffic we had seen in Amsterdam so what should have been a twenty minute drive took a little over an hour. We checked in and had our spot by 12:30. Everything was going exactly to plan.
The plan for the rest of the day was to unpack our bags, have a light dinner and relax to try to get over the jet lag. When we opened the closet where we store the cleaning gear and things like spare paper towels and toilet paper our plan came to a screeching halt.
It was clear that François had been occupied by a mouse while he was in storage. All of the paper products had been shredded. Opening other cabinets, different food products and plastic packages had been gnawed thru. We had a couple of boxes of milk products that in Europe can be stored as dry goods until opened. The mouse had gnawed thru those containers causing the milk to leak out all over the cabinet.
The next three hours were spent emptying out all of the cupboards, sorting thru all of the dry goods we had left in the cabinets to see which ones had been chewed thru. We ended up throwing out quite a bit of food we accumulated . Interestingly the mouse preferred rice products over noodle products! We finally gave all of the cabinets a good scrubbing and washed all of the dishes and pots and pans.
Finally about 6:30 Ton decided that things were clean enough. By then we were both too tired to eat, and just crawled into bed. The only question left is the mouse still on board, or has he moved on.