mandymouse
07-31-2007, 12:06 PM
Castmembers
Me (Mandy) - 43 - Searching for some Bahama Mamas
DH (Paul) - 42 - Searching for some peace and quiet
DD1 (Kerry 16) & DD2 (Becky 14) - Searching for Hollister Stores
Friday 13th July
We had spent the night at the Travelodge at Manchester Airport, and had done night before check-in with MyTravel. We had arranged the ‘Meet & Greet’ service where a chauffeur would come and pick the car up from outside the terminal. Due to all the added security measures at the airport, we had to meet our guy on the 13th floor of the short stay car park at Terminal 1. We left the car around 8am, and went to pick up our boarding cards and then we went straight through to passport control and the departure lounge.
The time flew by, we had a full English breakfast and had a wander around the duty free shops. I bought Paul some Dolce & Gabbanna 'Light Blue' aftershave (very nice) and he bought me a ring (just a cheapy - I'm easily pleased :rotfl: ), then we had a couple of Smirnoff Ice’s at the bar (woohoo !! the holiday has started).
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We began boarding around noon and took off on time just before 1pm. (By the way we were at the airport so early due to our flight time being changed several times during the week before we flew, and we'd already arranged a meet time for our car).
The flight was uneventful, the movies didn’t look very interesting, I think the only one I remember being on was DreamGirls, and I didn’t fancy that, so I read a book all flight and the time went by quite quickly.
The food was the usual ‘flight-food’, we were given chicken (about the size of a mini griddler) a roast potato (about the size of a sugar cube) and a few carrots and green beans along with the usual cream cheese and crackers, bread roll and banoffee cream dessert, which I had 2 off, then promptly dropped one down me (message to self – pack a bib for mum next time).
Duty free came round and Paul bought me a set of 4 mini J-Lo perfumes and then an hour before landing we were given a warm snack, a slice of pizza, which wasn’t too bad.
We landed around 5ish, and one plane landed just before us, so Immigration was packed. While we waited to see our Immigration Officer, I noticed he looked quite stern, so I told the girls not to mess around. When we were called over, he started looking at our passports and he asked Paul to pull the serious face that he had on his passport, I told him if he thought that was bad he should look at mine as I looked like something from the Adams Family. Next he called Morticia over (cheeky so & so), then he called Kerry (though he didn’t say anything to tease her) and then finally he called Becky who was having her finger prints taken for the first time. Then he started teasing her saying that she was wanted all around Europe on drugs charges and that she’ll get better ones over here. Paul and I were laughing so much, but the humour was lost on Becky as she hadn’t got a clue what he was going on about.
As soon as we left Immigration, our suitcases were one of the first to come out and we went off to pick our car up from Alamo and we were on our way out just after 6pm
On our way to the Pop Century we drove through a huge storm and I was worrying how busy check-in would be at the Pop as it felt quite late. Thankfully check-in was empty so we walked to the front of the desk.
We had sent a fax 3 days before requesting a ground floor room in the 90’s building by the Computer pool, and we were lucky to get a room next door to the room we had at Christmas.
Our first meal was Chicken Strips and Cheeseburgers with fries from the food court. The girls were shattered, so they settled down for the evening and Paul & I went off to Wal-Mart to get the usual Mountain Dew, Oreo’s, Lays Chips and water.
I think we were all in bed by 10pm
Me (Mandy) - 43 - Searching for some Bahama Mamas
DH (Paul) - 42 - Searching for some peace and quiet
DD1 (Kerry 16) & DD2 (Becky 14) - Searching for Hollister Stores
Friday 13th July
We had spent the night at the Travelodge at Manchester Airport, and had done night before check-in with MyTravel. We had arranged the ‘Meet & Greet’ service where a chauffeur would come and pick the car up from outside the terminal. Due to all the added security measures at the airport, we had to meet our guy on the 13th floor of the short stay car park at Terminal 1. We left the car around 8am, and went to pick up our boarding cards and then we went straight through to passport control and the departure lounge.
The time flew by, we had a full English breakfast and had a wander around the duty free shops. I bought Paul some Dolce & Gabbanna 'Light Blue' aftershave (very nice) and he bought me a ring (just a cheapy - I'm easily pleased :rotfl: ), then we had a couple of Smirnoff Ice’s at the bar (woohoo !! the holiday has started).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MMM120/CIMG0098.jpg
We began boarding around noon and took off on time just before 1pm. (By the way we were at the airport so early due to our flight time being changed several times during the week before we flew, and we'd already arranged a meet time for our car).
The flight was uneventful, the movies didn’t look very interesting, I think the only one I remember being on was DreamGirls, and I didn’t fancy that, so I read a book all flight and the time went by quite quickly.
The food was the usual ‘flight-food’, we were given chicken (about the size of a mini griddler) a roast potato (about the size of a sugar cube) and a few carrots and green beans along with the usual cream cheese and crackers, bread roll and banoffee cream dessert, which I had 2 off, then promptly dropped one down me (message to self – pack a bib for mum next time).
Duty free came round and Paul bought me a set of 4 mini J-Lo perfumes and then an hour before landing we were given a warm snack, a slice of pizza, which wasn’t too bad.
We landed around 5ish, and one plane landed just before us, so Immigration was packed. While we waited to see our Immigration Officer, I noticed he looked quite stern, so I told the girls not to mess around. When we were called over, he started looking at our passports and he asked Paul to pull the serious face that he had on his passport, I told him if he thought that was bad he should look at mine as I looked like something from the Adams Family. Next he called Morticia over (cheeky so & so), then he called Kerry (though he didn’t say anything to tease her) and then finally he called Becky who was having her finger prints taken for the first time. Then he started teasing her saying that she was wanted all around Europe on drugs charges and that she’ll get better ones over here. Paul and I were laughing so much, but the humour was lost on Becky as she hadn’t got a clue what he was going on about.
As soon as we left Immigration, our suitcases were one of the first to come out and we went off to pick our car up from Alamo and we were on our way out just after 6pm
On our way to the Pop Century we drove through a huge storm and I was worrying how busy check-in would be at the Pop as it felt quite late. Thankfully check-in was empty so we walked to the front of the desk.
We had sent a fax 3 days before requesting a ground floor room in the 90’s building by the Computer pool, and we were lucky to get a room next door to the room we had at Christmas.
Our first meal was Chicken Strips and Cheeseburgers with fries from the food court. The girls were shattered, so they settled down for the evening and Paul & I went off to Wal-Mart to get the usual Mountain Dew, Oreo’s, Lays Chips and water.
I think we were all in bed by 10pm