RobynPrincess
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The day before.
This day was spent like every other, me running around cleaning the house, changing the beds etc, Sy was working and he had things to close up so he was working even longer than usual, grrr!
We managed to leave the house about 7:30pm - which was about 2 hours later than I would have liked but there you go! We dropped the cat off with friends down the road and said a teary goodbye to him before heading over to Sy's parents house, they kindly let us stay with them as they live close to the airport (Sy's mum was also getting up stupidly early to take us to the airport the next morning).
We stopped at a services on the way over as it was getting late and we hadn't managed to have anything to eat. There wasn't much choice as lots of it had closed already for the evening so we settled on a KFC (me) and McDonald's (Sy).
Our tummies feeling suitably filled we headed out to the car and finished on our journey, it took about an hour and a half to get there without the stop, unfortunately our friend who was cat sitting lived in the opposite direction so we had to drive half an hour away from where we were headed. It was no bother, just meant that with us leaving late as well, time was not on our side. We arrived at Sy's parents at about 10:30pm. We brought the cases in and had a drink before bed, we had an early start. Alarm was set for 6am :O ok, I realise this may not be early for some, but this was very early for me!
This day was spent like every other, me running around cleaning the house, changing the beds etc, Sy was working and he had things to close up so he was working even longer than usual, grrr!
We managed to leave the house about 7:30pm - which was about 2 hours later than I would have liked but there you go! We dropped the cat off with friends down the road and said a teary goodbye to him before heading over to Sy's parents house, they kindly let us stay with them as they live close to the airport (Sy's mum was also getting up stupidly early to take us to the airport the next morning).
We stopped at a services on the way over as it was getting late and we hadn't managed to have anything to eat. There wasn't much choice as lots of it had closed already for the evening so we settled on a KFC (me) and McDonald's (Sy).
Our tummies feeling suitably filled we headed out to the car and finished on our journey, it took about an hour and a half to get there without the stop, unfortunately our friend who was cat sitting lived in the opposite direction so we had to drive half an hour away from where we were headed. It was no bother, just meant that with us leaving late as well, time was not on our side. We arrived at Sy's parents at about 10:30pm. We brought the cases in and had a drink before bed, we had an early start. Alarm was set for 6am :O ok, I realise this may not be early for some, but this was very early for me!
we had to settle for running into boots to get me some food for the flight and we did manage to grab a take out McDonald's breakfast as I was starving before running to the furthest away gate from the terminal. We got there once they had already started boarding but they hadn't got to our row yet so we quickly woofed our breakfast down in time for being called. We found our seats, a row of 3 in the middle of the plane and sat down. That's where things went wrong. I get that we are big people but my shoulders were bigger than the seat, I wont even go there with my butt lol but my shoulders aren't exactly wide. It would be okay though, cause the flight wasn't full and we still had a spare seat beside us, as long as that stayed free we could spread out... the flight was almost full now and seat was still empty, it was all going so well, until 2 big beefy guys got on and started to walk down the plane towards us, 1 was sat next to us and the other on the other side of the aisle. It wasn't comfy but there was a row of 3 completely empty a few rows back and a very nice hostess let us move to those while we were waiting for clearance to push back from the gate. It would have been a VERY uncomfortable flight had we not been able to move. To give you an idea, the other airlines who fly to Orlando on this type of aircraft have 1 less seat per row. Monarch are that greedy that they squeeze another seat in and make you even more squished in. I flew with them in 2008 when I was slimmer and vowed never again then, but when we paid what we did, it was a means to an end that got us to Orlando, and it really wasn't that bad once we spread out in a row of 3. 
Sy got a Po'boy and I got some chicken fillets, they were as good as I remembered... Oh how I wish I could get a Popeye's back home! We munched them in the car while we went in search of the hotel.
Thank you nice man!!! 
