our gap year

Monday, May 22, 2006

Meal

Our plans were doomed from the start. Having a BBQ in England, whos stupid idea was that?! It rained of course so Dad and i cooked everything indoors (set the fire alarm off a number of times) and we all ate inside.
Mum decided to quiz us all on where we were going and i think got quite suprised when we knew the answers - although how she would have checked they were right is anyones guess.

Everyone seemed to get on and all the parents are going to spend some time working out how to use modern technology together (the computer...what an invention!) so all is well!

Emma (the last one was me aswell, forgot to add that!)

We finally bought out tickets!

We finally got round to buying our tickets. We couldnt pay for them on the day that we originally told the travelagent we would come in and we nearly lost our booking but after being sweetalked by Laura, he recalled it.
We went straight in and sat down on the floor having learnt from last time and despite some strange looks from other customers, everyone eventually followed suit.
Mine had to be the card that didnt work! So after being told they were accepted, i wrote a check. Following that they realised that checks couldn't be taken so i wrote one for Jane (Emilys mum) and she paid for mine on her credit card. We were then informed that they had accidently given us last years prices and that we needed to pay another 40 quid on top of what we had just payed.
Three checks and many sighs later, our flights were sorted.

We had to go shopping after that to reward ourselves for agreeing to part with our money. Laura bought trousers and a top and i bought some shorts - all essential for our travels of course! Emily showed us up by getting nothing.