I am soooooo fed up of packing and unpacking, packing and unpacking! Its really grating on me! And packing to come home is no better! Obviously we had to much and the cases were over weight! AGAIN! And the handluggage bags were 10kg + each! It took a lot of rearranging of heavy things and some hard decisions to leave things behind to get the weight down and they are still 1 kg overweight! But theres sod all i can do about it i really have given up! I cannot wait to go on a normal holiday where i just take my handbag to the airport instead of breaking my back with a 10kg+ backpack and handbag and a jumper to carry! Its not glamourous and its not me!
Next there was Lukes car :(..... Now most people with a "older" car will more then likely have a Few repairs a year to do, due to wear and tear etc, it feels like it never ends amd they always think "why does this always happen to me!" We think that sometimes! But it cant be helped cars break and thats that really! Lukes car needed a repair due to corrosion and it was just sods law it has happened a few days before we come home and we have no money until we start work in a couple of weeks! After feeling stressed about this for a while we chatted to both parents and felt better :) its so hard when things happen and they are completely out of your hands, and its hard not being there when something like that happens ! Because you are helpless! However hopefully things will be ok when we return.
The next and quite serious worry was a electrical fire in our room the evening before our departure! We had just finished chatting to lukes mum luke went to the toilet i Was sitting on the bed, he came out of the bathroom and said there was smoke coming out of one of the plug sockets....i thought he ment the smoke was coming from a socket with something plugged into it, but there was nothing plugged into it but there was thick black smoke pouring out of the socket, i quickly jumped up and said we need to get out, i grabbed our phones, lukes wallet, the ipad and video camera! All the important things!! Luke grabbed our shoes! And We went outside to our balcony, i was in my pjammas! Luke ran down to reception and informed them and they said they would send someone!! Well time ticked by and nobody came, meanwhile this most awful smell was seeping out to the balcony, luke ran back in to grab our passports ! We really did think the worst and just thought we needed to get our passports! Luke was very concerned about our luggage ! I really wasnt even thinking about it! I was so concerned about the electrical fire that was happening! Still no one came. So i bolted down there in my pjs and spoke to someone on the tickets desk as she was the first person i saw, they were really concerned and said i had to speak to someone on the front desk which luke had already done! I just bardged into the que and litrally said we have a fire upstairs and no one has come and to make it worse the smoke alarm had not gone off! They assured me someone was coming i went back to luke who was still waiting and eventually the security guard and maintanence man turned up! They walked in and it stank! And then the maintanence man proceded to do something so dangerous i cant really believe it! He plugged in the hairdryer to the plug socket that was smoking and turned it on! I couldnt believe it, he was crazy he could of been electricuted ! He tried two plug sockets with the hairdryer for what reason i dont no! Because the fact of the matter is the smoke had poured out, the room stank and it was pointless and dangerous! He then unscrewed the plug with a normal screw driver not even a special electricians screw driver! And thats when he saw inside the plug and saw there was water running down the electric colum in the wall! When he saw that he said you will need to be moved rooms....which we already new ! We were not going to stay in there it was dangerous and it stunk, he said someone would come up to help us with our luggage and help us to another room, well we quickly got our stuff out of the room luckily i had nearly finished the packing so there was only a few loose bits to pick up, then we waited on our balcony and waited and waited, it was getting dark i was still in my pjs and no one came! We was both so so angry and i went down to reception again in my pjs and was fuming i litrally told them how angry i was and what had happened and that i wanted a room sorted out now and then i want to speak to a manager about a refund. They gave me the key for the new room and the manager was busy so said he would ring me, i just wanted to get our stuff to the new room, finish the packing and have a bath ! It was gone 9pm now and we had a long journey tomorrow, we got all our stuff to our room on our own no one came to help us, and as soon as we got there luke went to get us a pizza and i rang the manager fuming! I explain i wanted a refund and he said he would be contacting virgin as we booked through them i took his full name and assured him i would be in contact and i would be contacting virgin myself, he gave us free breakfast and a fruit basket! But we was un happy, this was not what we needed or wanted before travelling and besides that it was so dangerous, we went back the next morning to take so pics of the room etc to support our letter of complaint! And to our horror nothing had been done or touched, the room was how we left it, all lights on no body had enusred the room or the enviroment was safe, and it still stunk, what a evening!
The last thing that stressed us out was our journey and luggage restrictions, it wasnt the flight tho! Our flight was departing from miami international. We had to get a public bus to the lynx central station in downtown orlando and then walk to the megabus stop to catch our bus to miami, we was worried about relying on public transport and also the megabus had really strict guidelines on size of luggage and weight and people had been refused! So i was really worried about being refused onto the bus and then panicking about how we would get to the airport that was 4 hours away!! However we got the public bus fine, then walked to the megabus stop fine and then got on the bus fine! No problems! Worrying over nothing!! And then we got to miami airport fine and we decided there to take stuff out of Our cases and put them into another bag to prevent all the worry and stress of the case being over weight!
So theres it is the things that we most worried and stressed about just before our return! What a looooong 24 hours it was and of course we didnt sleep as we never do before we travel! So that was a stressful 24 hours and now we were going into the next 24 hours which would be very tiring! We had a hour journey to the lynx central station a 4 hour journey to miami airport and then a 6 hour wait for our flight then a 9 hour flight and 2 hour journey to my sisters ! Its going to be tiring but oh so worth it when i see my little chester and millie! And the rest of the fam ! Cannot wait its all a surprize and they are going to be super excited!
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