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- Joined
- Apr 18, 2004
Your Cast
Jo - age 33 - Planner and Organiser - loves Eeyore, not one for 'big' rides
G - age 35 - Co-conspirator - looking forward to trying the newer rides
Molly -age 5 (going on 14) - loves High School Musical and Princesses
Declan - age 2- loves HSM, Hannah Montana! and more age appropriate characters like Mickey, Pooh, Buzz and Little Einsteins
Previously
Wils' Festive Surprise - Reveal
Day 0 - 24/12 - Getting to Gatwick
I was up early and at Tesco just after 6 to buy toiletries for the trip. I hadn’t done this before as I wanted to get out of the house before the stress of packing and loading the car began. (I am a little stress kitten just before a trip
) I got back to find the rest of the family awake.
We had breakfast and G and I took it in turns to look after the kids whilst the other sorted the packing. G is the chief packer so I just left what I wanted for myself and the kids in baskets and he filled the 2 suitcases he had decided to take. I knew we wouldn’t fit a third large case in the car but I did suggest that we took a weekend case empty for shopping. ‘No need’ was the reply ‘plenty of room left’
I let the kids open a Christmas present each which kept them entertained and it wasn’t long until lunch and time to go over to the Church for the toddler service I was running. We keep this short for the little children so after a few choruses of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star’ and ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ we said our goodbyes and ran leaving dull old Coventry in the rear view mirror!
Molly and Declan both slept soon after getting in the car so thankfully we only had 1 run through of Disney Channel Christmas Hits (its great but it sounds like you imagine it would and I’m far too old to have such cheery music on for too long!
) The traffic wasn’t bad but when we got to the M25 we had a couple of signs saying the M23 was closed. When the later signs were instead telling us not to drink and drive we assumed all was OK but no, the M23 was closed at the M25 junction. Luckily we had lived in Redhill and I’d worked in Crawley so we were able to leave at the next junction round and take the back roads route without any stress. Soon we arrived at the airport and I checked in at the Hilton. We took the luggage to the room where I stayed with the kids whilst G moved the car to Summer Special Parking (when we had last stayed there the car parking was next door to the hotel but I hadn’t expected such luck this time – just as well!)
The room was huge a (probably close to the size of the top floor of our house) and the kids were excited (as was I
). Molly had made a Christmas tree and Santa at school so we but them up on the desk thinking this was a sheltered spot where Santa could work un-noticed later. 
Gordon arrived back and once Declan’s cot had been delivered we walked over to the terminal as it was tea time. We looked at the menu at Frankie and Benny’s but they were closing (@ 6PM!) so Burger King it was. We got some magazines in WHSmith and had a play on the slot machines and rides before taking the monorail over to the North Terminal and back. Saw an actor who we think used to be in Eastenders (or rather an act-tour with a theatrical voice) before heading back to the room and bath time. Molly was thrilled with the plastic shower car (little things!) but both kids struggled to settle despite the threat of Santa needing them to be asleep before he visited. I think G read for I bit but I was exhausted and was soon asleep.
Jo - age 33 - Planner and Organiser - loves Eeyore, not one for 'big' rides
G - age 35 - Co-conspirator - looking forward to trying the newer rides
Molly -age 5 (going on 14) - loves High School Musical and Princesses
Declan - age 2- loves HSM, Hannah Montana! and more age appropriate characters like Mickey, Pooh, Buzz and Little Einsteins
Previously
Wils' Festive Surprise - Reveal
Day 0 - 24/12 - Getting to Gatwick
I was up early and at Tesco just after 6 to buy toiletries for the trip. I hadn’t done this before as I wanted to get out of the house before the stress of packing and loading the car began. (I am a little stress kitten just before a trip
) I got back to find the rest of the family awake.We had breakfast and G and I took it in turns to look after the kids whilst the other sorted the packing. G is the chief packer so I just left what I wanted for myself and the kids in baskets and he filled the 2 suitcases he had decided to take. I knew we wouldn’t fit a third large case in the car but I did suggest that we took a weekend case empty for shopping. ‘No need’ was the reply ‘plenty of room left’
I let the kids open a Christmas present each which kept them entertained and it wasn’t long until lunch and time to go over to the Church for the toddler service I was running. We keep this short for the little children so after a few choruses of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star’ and ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ we said our goodbyes and ran leaving dull old Coventry in the rear view mirror!
Molly and Declan both slept soon after getting in the car so thankfully we only had 1 run through of Disney Channel Christmas Hits (its great but it sounds like you imagine it would and I’m far too old to have such cheery music on for too long!
) The traffic wasn’t bad but when we got to the M25 we had a couple of signs saying the M23 was closed. When the later signs were instead telling us not to drink and drive we assumed all was OK but no, the M23 was closed at the M25 junction. Luckily we had lived in Redhill and I’d worked in Crawley so we were able to leave at the next junction round and take the back roads route without any stress. Soon we arrived at the airport and I checked in at the Hilton. We took the luggage to the room where I stayed with the kids whilst G moved the car to Summer Special Parking (when we had last stayed there the car parking was next door to the hotel but I hadn’t expected such luck this time – just as well!)The room was huge a (probably close to the size of the top floor of our house) and the kids were excited (as was I
). Molly had made a Christmas tree and Santa at school so we but them up on the desk thinking this was a sheltered spot where Santa could work un-noticed later.
Gordon arrived back and once Declan’s cot had been delivered we walked over to the terminal as it was tea time. We looked at the menu at Frankie and Benny’s but they were closing (@ 6PM!) so Burger King it was. We got some magazines in WHSmith and had a play on the slot machines and rides before taking the monorail over to the North Terminal and back. Saw an actor who we think used to be in Eastenders (or rather an act-tour with a theatrical voice) before heading back to the room and bath time. Molly was thrilled with the plastic shower car (little things!) but both kids struggled to settle despite the threat of Santa needing them to be asleep before he visited. I think G read for I bit but I was exhausted and was soon asleep.
