craigs bride
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all started the night of the 14th sept rushing around to get everything in place, bags sorted, Dd16 friend being dropped off by parents .early bath then bed we had to get up at 5.30am ..dd16 friend wasnt impressed earliest she gets out of bed is 8am for school or 3pm weekends big shock to her system lol.
Taxi arrived at 7am we all jumped on ready for our journey to Gatwick
got to LGW at about 9ish had to go check in even tho i done it online checking on the monday but they wouldnt allow the 8mth ds to be included so had to check him in took an hour to sort things out .
we had a wander round before heading off to maccy d,s then we went to board by this time my dad was getting in a right old state ( he hates flying ).... but he got on the plane ok after realising him and mum were sat by themselves with bulk head seats .....me behind with the two younger children
dh was sat further down the plane with ds18,dd16 and ddbf.
dd4 thought she thought she was an air stedwess giving out drinks and food till i looked round and she had disappeared ..ok not far for her go but of course i paniked (sp) but guess where i found her ?.........
in first class the little monkey chatting up the air staff lol.
we got to Orlando on time ...got through customs ok then we went tp pick up the cars i,d been fine the whole time till i got to go pick up my car a town and country 8 seater then i started paniking about driving .....never drove in fl before .! i was tired , stressed and i just couldnt do it so i let my bil drive us to the villa ...
got to our villa about 8pm after getting lost again ( next time sat nav )
checked in, ordered pizza then crashed out for the night .
ok highs and lows so far .....too long a journey, it started to rain kids stressing beacause they were tired .
highs ..we were in Florida tommorow is another day !
Taxi arrived at 7am we all jumped on ready for our journey to Gatwick
got to LGW at about 9ish had to go check in even tho i done it online checking on the monday but they wouldnt allow the 8mth ds to be included so had to check him in took an hour to sort things out .
we had a wander round before heading off to maccy d,s then we went to board by this time my dad was getting in a right old state ( he hates flying ).... but he got on the plane ok after realising him and mum were sat by themselves with bulk head seats .....me behind with the two younger children
dh was sat further down the plane with ds18,dd16 and ddbf.
dd4 thought she thought she was an air stedwess giving out drinks and food till i looked round and she had disappeared ..ok not far for her go but of course i paniked (sp) but guess where i found her ?.........
in first class the little monkey chatting up the air staff lol.
we got to Orlando on time ...got through customs ok then we went tp pick up the cars i,d been fine the whole time till i got to go pick up my car a town and country 8 seater then i started paniking about driving .....never drove in fl before .! i was tired , stressed and i just couldnt do it so i let my bil drive us to the villa ...
got to our villa about 8pm after getting lost again ( next time sat nav )
checked in, ordered pizza then crashed out for the night .
ok highs and lows so far .....too long a journey, it started to rain kids stressing beacause they were tired .
highs ..we were in Florida tommorow is another day !
I'm off to read some more 
