A holiday report!
We had a wonderful 13 day holiday. Our flight was at 7pm, we wondered if and when the girls would sleep in the journey... well after parking the car we had to catch a bus to the terminal and Lucy screamed the entire way as she had to sit on my lap and not in her own seat like Amelia. We thought the flight would be awful, but they were good girls from then on. We didnt really stop moving (queuing!) in the airport and boarded relatively easy and quickly.
The girls had new comics and stickers to entertain them on the flight - and they were good as gold and very cute... even when Amelia decided she needed a pooh mid-flight and her and Duncan were gone 20 MINUTES!! Several people gave up queuing outside the toilet!!!
At the airport the hire car firm didnt turn up so we just had to hire one from Hertz and pay double the price. It sucked .. and we didnt get on our way til gone 11 UK time and neither girl had had any sleep and were just good as gold. They slept as soon as we started the drive to the villa though!
They shared a room out there and were pretty good with it - but got into the habit of getting me to lie in there with them til thety had gone to sleep - not exactly a hardship - as they are very lovely! Amelia also developed the habit of sleeping naked - and is still doing it now!
Most days we went to the beach in the morning, back to the villa for the girls sleep and then spent the afternoon at the villa in the pool.
They loved the beach. As soon as we starting put our stuff donw they would trot off to the sea with their watering cans. We spent hours buiding sandcastles, holes, tunnels, channels and paddling, collecting shells and swimming, until Amelia got a little excema flare up and the sea water stung her!
The villa pool was aften really cold as there were some really high winds. Amelia pretty much just hacked the cold.. but Lucy didnt like it - so we got some sand up from the beach and made her some sand and water play on the patio - and she didnt mind standing there in the freezing cold hose-water!! Then we got a little boat and she sat in the pool in that splashing everyone!
They loved the Spanish food- especially paella, croquettes and the little tuna pasties, empanadellas!
All in all, it was brilliant. Liz & Geoff joined us for the last few days and we even managed a night out (well dinner!). Journey home was fairly horrific, with the girls screaming for most of the flight ... but it was the journey home .. so it didnt seem to matter so much.
Amelia-ism of the holiday
'I miss my lovely old toys at home. I want to go back to Hockley!'- The misery!!!
