Day 1

Friday 10th July.

When my alarm goes of at 3am i don’t even hear it , the first i know is when Craig wakes ME up. This may not sound much to anyone else but almost every week day Craig’s alarm goes off and does not wake him , i may be sleeping in another room but it will wake me (and normally the kids to) but he sleeps on. Of course i had been up till midnight with Ru , and again at 2am ….so i was tired.

We planned to be on the road for 4am , 5.30am we finally set off. Car packed to bursting and all of us excited , neighbours must of loved the kids running around outside at that time of the morning.

The journey went surprisingly well , we bought in car DVD players for the girls and made DVDs of their favourite shows . They loved these and it helped keep them happy . Ru was a little star , only twice did he start to fuss – once when needing fed and then about 20 minutes or so before we arrived (i think he had had enough).

We got to the park at 5.30pm , so exactly 12 hours which was not bad (journey can be done it 8.5 but we did have to stop for food, toilet breaks, feed Ru and Craig needed to pull over a few times when he got tired) . Took a while to find where we were going but finally got settled into our apartments.
They were basic and small but done the job , of course one of the first things Craig done was get himself locked in the toilet he he he …

We were all starving, lunch had been around 11am and nothing since (well except for Ru of course) . Had to wait for Craig to get the bags from the car first and we finally got to go and eat. Took the easy option at Pizza Hut , even Rebecca managed a full (kids) pizza herself – our poor starving kids lol..

We took a wonder around , by this point most of the kiddie entertainment had stopped and adult stuff started (which kids are allowed to go to) . The girls played in the rides (not the free ones unfortunately) for a while before we headed home.
Its was 11pm when we got back (and remember my kids are normally sleeping for 6-7pm ) and Rebecca who like alot of 4 year olds normally fights bedtime was in her pjs first . She proceeded to put herself straight to bed and sleep …again this may not sound like a big deal but in all her years she has never went to sleep alone in her own bed. She still gets held to go to sleep. She slept alone till 2am before coming in with us
Eilidh was a little more awkward , claiming she did not like her bed (she is very attached to her bed at home) but with a few hugs went down fine.

Ru….well he was Ru and im not going to go on about his night time sleeping to much as i would rather not repeat myself every night. For the most part it was horrid , up every hour or so and taken ages to go back down . I know it was a strange place and strange bed , there was also no light or anything in the room . Night feeds were no fun with basic tv (5 channels arggggggg) and no remote control . I played with my phone alot.

So there we go day one was over , turn in tomorrow for day 2