08:33 – no sunbeds today. I failed to get out of bed, I watched an episode of House at 12:15am and at 1:00am I was still wide awake.
And what did we learn children? No drinking cans of coke before bed.
We went down to the local fiesta last night, bought the kids an old-school giant candy-floss on a stick. Probably for moneysaving reasons we can now only buy the stuff by the bag at home.
Everything is ruined at home.
We went to a waiter service restaurant yesterday evening, thinking this would be a nice change. It sort of was but some smart arse informed the place it was my birthday and they brought out a cake and proceeded to make everybody in the place sing me happy birthday. Five minutes of what my purgatory would likely look like. I was really looking forward to a peaceful apple pie.
10:19 – when my sister-in-law emerged around an hour ago she cast her eyes around us as a group and walked off muttering something about “feeling really conspicuous”. She emerged three minutes later in a different outfit with what can best be described as “church coat pegs”. Not at all conspicuous.
12:26 – there was just a little boy of around three years old (scottish, of course) looking forlorn with one of the Spanish reps asking him where his mummy is. First my wife went over to help and then I did to as she was having no luck.
He tells me his sister brought him down and now she is gone. He is very concerned that the door is locked. Eventually he tells me that he knows where his room is so we send him off with the rep to find them.
Some five minutes later the rep returns, it turns out the sister was just four years old and had gone back to the pool. The parents were apparently sunning themselves poolside apparently unaware their three year old son had vanished.
A further few minutes on a miserable woman appears with the three year old boy and a couple if little girls. Reluctantly been forced to spend some time looking after her kids.
Stupid cow doesn’t deserve to have kids.
19:31 – nice day spent with the kids all-in-all. Saw Shrek when out and about. Nice to see he takes time out from the swamp every now and then.
21:48 – early night. Loro Park tomorrow, early start, reserved an early breakfast and packed lunch.
Also performed a bit of community service by suitably lowering the expectations of some new arrivals to the hotel.
themiseryguts 