Lisash
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Me: Not looking forward to all that washing & ironing
DH: Not looking forward to going back to work
DD: Not looking forward to my phone bill arriving
DS: Not looking forward to not having chips every day for dinner
1st January 2007 - Time to go home
Well all good things must come to an end and our time had come. We lay in as long as we could then with heavy hearts went down for our last breakfast. Must admit after 19 days it will be a while before I eat bagels & muffins again.
After much huffing & puffing I finally got the cases closed and we went off to DTD to check in. I needn't have worried about how heavy the bags were their weighing system is very low tech (basically if the guy loading the truck thinks your bag feels heavy they weigh it!) there must've been 100 bags in that loading bay and he weighed only 1 which was so big even I would've said it looked overweight.
We parked up at Marketplace and had a short stroll stopping off to watch the girls in the Bibbedy Bobbedy Boutique. Very pretty but see too many of them together and they start to look a bit scary
With a few hours still to spare we couldn't resist a little last minute shopping and lunch at Florida Mall. DD conned me out of yet another pair of trousers. I just hope we don't get stopped at customs on the way home as I think we may be near our tax free shopping limit
On to the airport which is a dream as everything was done earlier. You gotta love that DTD check in. We have a last burger and head over to departures. DD & I get perfume at duty free (Vera Wang Princess for me & Calvin Klein Euphoria for DD) then we stroll over to the gate where it is announced we have a very short delay
We get a nice surprise when we board as I'd forgotten I had booked us onto a row with a wall behind us so we can recline all they way home with no fear that we are bothering people in the row behind (I think it was row 37) The kids are soon asleep and I'm not far behind them. We are soon back in Manchester where it's freezing, grey and rainy. Oooh how lovely to be home.
and that's where it ends ..... well almost
We had the most fabulous time but I don't think we will go over Christmas and New Year again it just get's too crowded at best I would go mid December and fly back around Boxing Day. I also don't think I'd do three weeks again either. I never thought I'd say this but I think sometimes it is possible to have too much of a good thing and it took weeks to get over the jet lag
As for the kids DD hit the ground running as soon as we got home and was showered, hair straightened and off for a pub lunch with her boyfriend within hours of getting home. She racked up a £108 phone bill while we were away and has shockingly paid it me all back already. Sadly the romance with the object of all those texts & calls didn't last and by mid January she was single again and so upset she went straight to the pub with her friends to eye up the local football team
(oh to be 18 again)
DS eventually found a home for all the rubbish he purchased while we were away. He celebrated his 11th birthday in January and was given a chemistry set by his godfather. This was confiscated when he was caught trying to make stink bombs. He was last seen doing extra homework for sneaking a whoopee cushion into school. He claims to have no knowledge of how it got into his school bag
Sadly that ends my trip reports for this time. I hope you've enjoyed reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them. It's been lovely re-living all those experiences again. I'm off to start talking DH into booking our next Disney adventure
Me: Not looking forward to all that washing & ironing
DH: Not looking forward to going back to work
DD: Not looking forward to my phone bill arriving
DS: Not looking forward to not having chips every day for dinner
1st January 2007 - Time to go home
Well all good things must come to an end and our time had come. We lay in as long as we could then with heavy hearts went down for our last breakfast. Must admit after 19 days it will be a while before I eat bagels & muffins again.
After much huffing & puffing I finally got the cases closed and we went off to DTD to check in. I needn't have worried about how heavy the bags were their weighing system is very low tech (basically if the guy loading the truck thinks your bag feels heavy they weigh it!) there must've been 100 bags in that loading bay and he weighed only 1 which was so big even I would've said it looked overweight.
We parked up at Marketplace and had a short stroll stopping off to watch the girls in the Bibbedy Bobbedy Boutique. Very pretty but see too many of them together and they start to look a bit scary
With a few hours still to spare we couldn't resist a little last minute shopping and lunch at Florida Mall. DD conned me out of yet another pair of trousers. I just hope we don't get stopped at customs on the way home as I think we may be near our tax free shopping limit
On to the airport which is a dream as everything was done earlier. You gotta love that DTD check in. We have a last burger and head over to departures. DD & I get perfume at duty free (Vera Wang Princess for me & Calvin Klein Euphoria for DD) then we stroll over to the gate where it is announced we have a very short delay
We get a nice surprise when we board as I'd forgotten I had booked us onto a row with a wall behind us so we can recline all they way home with no fear that we are bothering people in the row behind (I think it was row 37) The kids are soon asleep and I'm not far behind them. We are soon back in Manchester where it's freezing, grey and rainy. Oooh how lovely to be home.
and that's where it ends ..... well almost
We had the most fabulous time but I don't think we will go over Christmas and New Year again it just get's too crowded at best I would go mid December and fly back around Boxing Day. I also don't think I'd do three weeks again either. I never thought I'd say this but I think sometimes it is possible to have too much of a good thing and it took weeks to get over the jet lag
As for the kids DD hit the ground running as soon as we got home and was showered, hair straightened and off for a pub lunch with her boyfriend within hours of getting home. She racked up a £108 phone bill while we were away and has shockingly paid it me all back already. Sadly the romance with the object of all those texts & calls didn't last and by mid January she was single again and so upset she went straight to the pub with her friends to eye up the local football team
(oh to be 18 again)DS eventually found a home for all the rubbish he purchased while we were away. He celebrated his 11th birthday in January and was given a chemistry set by his godfather. This was confiscated when he was caught trying to make stink bombs. He was last seen doing extra homework for sneaking a whoopee cushion into school. He claims to have no knowledge of how it got into his school bag
Sadly that ends my trip reports for this time. I hope you've enjoyed reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them. It's been lovely re-living all those experiences again. I'm off to start talking DH into booking our next Disney adventure
since having my ds i have been on 2 hols with my dad and 2 with my mum ( they are divorced) and we are going with my mum again in April and he's only 2 and a half.
