treena
26-08-2004, 05:36
well here we go, it feels like i'm back at school writing an essay!
Holiday feeling had started on sunday 8th August as I had finally finished work for a couple of weeks and had been round to the in-laws for lunch, who themselves had just arrived back from holiday, so got very relaxed sharing a couple of bottles of rose.
Went back home on suday afternoon feeling VERY relaxed but with the knowledge I had to finsh the packing very quickly because my best friend was coming round (as she does every sunday) and also my sister was droppimg off her daughter who I was in control of for 2 weeks!
Although not very grown up we put the kids (my son and niece both 7) to bed at 7.30 and proceeded to drink far to much wine considering we were up at 4.30!
Had the last minute lecture from my sister as to what to do and what not to do with her daughter before I finally manged to get rid of her at 1am!
I don't think my husband actually went to bed as when I got up at 4.30 he had already cleaned his desk and packed enough cables to permanantly wire up his laptop to the national grid!
We were picked up by driver at 6am got to Gatwick about 7.15am which I thought was pretty good, check in clear and then we discovered we were delayed for 1hr 30mins, not a problem to start with until my mother(thank you!) pointed out won't we'd miss our connecting flight.
It was still looking okay until we had been stood at Charlotte for 1hr 30mins in immigration and then had to dash to the gate for the orlando flight and my thong sandal broke en route so arrived at the gate extremly stressed shoughting that we were all there but that my mother was a bit slower than the rest of us and that she would be with us shortly and shaking my 'Next' sandal at him!!
We all had stong drink on the plane after that and tried to all calm down and enjoy the holiday, it didn't help that hubby and I had been without a ciggie for about 12hrs at this stage and were in the proccess of blaming each other for the worlds problems!
Finally got to villa about 8.30pm put the kids to bed then mum and I went to 7/11 to get cold beers and subs because we were to lazy to cook.
woke up on day 2 to glorious sunshine we had already decided that today would be pool day so went to the publix to stock up, came back mum and hubby blew up inflatables i lay by the pool and the kids had a great time swimming. We went to the Cracker Barrell that evening food wasn't great and then we got back to the villa only to discover hubby had left video camera and digital camera under the table! We did get them back thank goodness not sure that such honesty would occur in London.
day 3 we decided we would go to MK, we had a good day but I think we were still a little tired at we only lasted till about 5pm. Went publix on the way home to get dinner and chilled by the pool with a couple of drinks. This was also the day that we came home to find the mc had left a letter warning of strong winds coming to the area on Thursday and Friday!
Day 4: Had a lazy morning then went to typhoon lagoon, stayed about an hour until the heavens opened, which we decided was probably the end of bonnie. Walked back to the car but stupidly didn't take video camera and digital camera out of bag when we got to the car and by the the time we got back to the villa niether was working and I did think my husband was going to burst, thankfully he didn't and was surprisingly calm even we had lost all records from the first couple of days.
day 5: moved the pool furniture into the garge first thing although the mc had said not to bother unless we saw evidence of strong winds. Then we tried to go out for the day, first stop Epcot then we discovered that they were closing at 1pm so we decide not to waste a days ticket, so... then we decided lets go shopping but we got to the Florida mall only to discover they were closing in an hour. Then we paniced as they were saying we should be back in the villa by 2pm and we were still a good 35mins drive away.We checked with hubby (who does risk assessments as
Holiday feeling had started on sunday 8th August as I had finally finished work for a couple of weeks and had been round to the in-laws for lunch, who themselves had just arrived back from holiday, so got very relaxed sharing a couple of bottles of rose.
Went back home on suday afternoon feeling VERY relaxed but with the knowledge I had to finsh the packing very quickly because my best friend was coming round (as she does every sunday) and also my sister was droppimg off her daughter who I was in control of for 2 weeks!
Although not very grown up we put the kids (my son and niece both 7) to bed at 7.30 and proceeded to drink far to much wine considering we were up at 4.30!
Had the last minute lecture from my sister as to what to do and what not to do with her daughter before I finally manged to get rid of her at 1am!
I don't think my husband actually went to bed as when I got up at 4.30 he had already cleaned his desk and packed enough cables to permanantly wire up his laptop to the national grid!
We were picked up by driver at 6am got to Gatwick about 7.15am which I thought was pretty good, check in clear and then we discovered we were delayed for 1hr 30mins, not a problem to start with until my mother(thank you!) pointed out won't we'd miss our connecting flight.
It was still looking okay until we had been stood at Charlotte for 1hr 30mins in immigration and then had to dash to the gate for the orlando flight and my thong sandal broke en route so arrived at the gate extremly stressed shoughting that we were all there but that my mother was a bit slower than the rest of us and that she would be with us shortly and shaking my 'Next' sandal at him!!
We all had stong drink on the plane after that and tried to all calm down and enjoy the holiday, it didn't help that hubby and I had been without a ciggie for about 12hrs at this stage and were in the proccess of blaming each other for the worlds problems!
Finally got to villa about 8.30pm put the kids to bed then mum and I went to 7/11 to get cold beers and subs because we were to lazy to cook.
woke up on day 2 to glorious sunshine we had already decided that today would be pool day so went to the publix to stock up, came back mum and hubby blew up inflatables i lay by the pool and the kids had a great time swimming. We went to the Cracker Barrell that evening food wasn't great and then we got back to the villa only to discover hubby had left video camera and digital camera under the table! We did get them back thank goodness not sure that such honesty would occur in London.
day 3 we decided we would go to MK, we had a good day but I think we were still a little tired at we only lasted till about 5pm. Went publix on the way home to get dinner and chilled by the pool with a couple of drinks. This was also the day that we came home to find the mc had left a letter warning of strong winds coming to the area on Thursday and Friday!
Day 4: Had a lazy morning then went to typhoon lagoon, stayed about an hour until the heavens opened, which we decided was probably the end of bonnie. Walked back to the car but stupidly didn't take video camera and digital camera out of bag when we got to the car and by the the time we got back to the villa niether was working and I did think my husband was going to burst, thankfully he didn't and was surprisingly calm even we had lost all records from the first couple of days.
day 5: moved the pool furniture into the garge first thing although the mc had said not to bother unless we saw evidence of strong winds. Then we tried to go out for the day, first stop Epcot then we discovered that they were closing at 1pm so we decide not to waste a days ticket, so... then we decided lets go shopping but we got to the Florida mall only to discover they were closing in an hour. Then we paniced as they were saying we should be back in the villa by 2pm and we were still a good 35mins drive away.We checked with hubby (who does risk assessments as