Queenie
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Hi everyone,
We got back to England on Sunday morning (flight landed 15 mins early into Manchester at 9.15am.) Seriously depressed and jet lagged, never been this down after a trip before
Holiday was pretty good but not great, this owing largely to the presence of my mother who managed to pretty much ruin everything and who we ended up just having to walk away from to calm down on several days. Big thanks go out to the Dolphins in Depth people who remained calm even with her pretty much ignoring everything they said to the point of putting the animals in danger at one point (you have no idea how embarassing it all was for me as well.) The only other low points when she was out of the question were having my ipod go missing before we'd even driven out of the airport - I must have left it on the plane but no one has handed it in, and our hire car breaking down in the Bennigans car park one night, leaving me and Scott stranded for almost 3 hours.
Still we had some great times as well. Scott rode Everest 4 times (I just couldn't do it) and he loved it. We also both really enjoyed the new Pirates, especially Davy Jones and the Seuss Trolly thingy at IOA. We have 1550 photos (in case you're wondering that adds up to 1.85Gb!) and a few hours of video, and that's before the ride photo, Halloween night photos, Dolphin photo, photopass pics and my mum's cameras too! We also have tons of souvinirs including the enormous free snowglobes that we ordered several months ago - so beautiful!
Thanks for the birthday wishes. Scott took me to TGI Fridays last night but I was so jet lagged I just zoned out for half the meal. He got me a Haunted Mansion special edition pin (one of the boxed ones), a Muppets pin from the 35th anniversary line and a cuddly baby Pluto! Mum's knocking off about $150 from my souvenirs bill. To whoever commented on me timing it badly, I was there for my birthday last year and will be in the States for my 21st nwxt year hopefully. It's just a lot more crowded if we go over that week so we decided to avoid it this year.
Hope you've all been ok whilst we've been away. I'll be on and off this week as still pretty upset and trying to tidy the house and stuff. Need to start planning for next year now! Keep an eye out for the trippies once I'm capable of writing lucidly again.
xxx
We got back to England on Sunday morning (flight landed 15 mins early into Manchester at 9.15am.) Seriously depressed and jet lagged, never been this down after a trip before
Holiday was pretty good but not great, this owing largely to the presence of my mother who managed to pretty much ruin everything and who we ended up just having to walk away from to calm down on several days. Big thanks go out to the Dolphins in Depth people who remained calm even with her pretty much ignoring everything they said to the point of putting the animals in danger at one point (you have no idea how embarassing it all was for me as well.) The only other low points when she was out of the question were having my ipod go missing before we'd even driven out of the airport - I must have left it on the plane but no one has handed it in, and our hire car breaking down in the Bennigans car park one night, leaving me and Scott stranded for almost 3 hours. Still we had some great times as well. Scott rode Everest 4 times (I just couldn't do it) and he loved it. We also both really enjoyed the new Pirates, especially Davy Jones and the Seuss Trolly thingy at IOA. We have 1550 photos (in case you're wondering that adds up to 1.85Gb!) and a few hours of video, and that's before the ride photo, Halloween night photos, Dolphin photo, photopass pics and my mum's cameras too! We also have tons of souvinirs including the enormous free snowglobes that we ordered several months ago - so beautiful!
Thanks for the birthday wishes. Scott took me to TGI Fridays last night but I was so jet lagged I just zoned out for half the meal. He got me a Haunted Mansion special edition pin (one of the boxed ones), a Muppets pin from the 35th anniversary line and a cuddly baby Pluto! Mum's knocking off about $150 from my souvenirs bill. To whoever commented on me timing it badly, I was there for my birthday last year and will be in the States for my 21st nwxt year hopefully. It's just a lot more crowded if we go over that week so we decided to avoid it this year.
Hope you've all been ok whilst we've been away. I'll be on and off this week as still pretty upset and trying to tidy the house and stuff. Need to start planning for next year now! Keep an eye out for the trippies once I'm capable of writing lucidly again.
xxx
Sending you a 
as sorry to hear you're so down - sometimes it's like that after a long-haul holiday but coping with your mum probably hasn't helped. 
Welcome back Sophie ~ Shame that you did not have a better time with your mum 
