Oj tak, szwankuje mi ostatnio angielski. Nie wiem z czego to wynika jakoże siedzę w nim po uszy... Spróbuję poprawić:
1 We HAD been planning this journey for a very long time.
2 When the long-anticipated day came, all of us gathered in my house and got to the lake by my car.
How about that? It's not a perfect kind of translation, I know.