Shopaholic? Me?

My son asked to go to Disney Land again today. Although the twins are tiny I think we can still possibly start planning a holiday. However, I think I might be braver and instead of going to Paris might actually contemplate an Orlando vacation. However with 3 under 5’s… it will take a whole load of careful planning. Perhaps I ought to enrol myself into the army for military experience! LOL!

Here’s to dreaming of a lovely holiday. mmmm.

I really want a holiday with a night sitter so that I can sleep through a whole night. When you have a baby and it wakes twice … you feel knackered. When you have twins, you wake four times not twice, which means so little sleep. Outer Banks vacation rentals could offer me a holiday but I would need to take some help with me to get that extra sleep… or perhaps I just need to wait a few more months for them to hopefully sleep through the night! Zzz

If you need an alternative to our normal shop sales, how about considering some las vegas packages. You could still shop if you want to but you could also try to win some extra cash to shop in one of their many many casinos. Though you do know what they say about coming out of a casino with a small fortune…. go in with a large one. So don’t count on winning…. just enjoying!

Thank God that everyone will accept credit cards because otherwise we would have been truly stuck. If it were not for e-commerce and credit cards, we would have been stuck in Luton indefinitely. We boarded a Ryan Air flight to Malta and this was at first delayed. Then due to the snow, we were offloaded and finally our flight was cancelled. There was no-one from Ryan Air to be found and their call centres closed. So we were stuck there and unable to do anything but thankfully with our cards and the internet, we booked new flights and train tickets to an alternative airport and finally a day later we were at our destination. I dread to think that without the internet and our cards, we would probably still be in Luton till after Christmas as the next available flight from Luton to Malta was on the 29th December!

We were planning to go to Malta for Christmas and were looking for a place to stay. Being now a family of 5, we were thinking that perhaps renting an apartment made more sense than staying with family or in a hotel. However, i found internet prices to rent apartments in Malta were rather lacking in information and ridiculously expensive. Now if I could find a website like Indianapolis apartments for Malta, I might actually be successful in finding a place. They even do floor plans of the apartments which is great especially if you have kids.

We received a lovely gift of two cute matching baby-grows from a friend of ours. They are Mickey Mouse Disney wear. They are ever so cute. They were actually purchased from Euro Disney in France, which made me think of our last holiday there. We had such a great time. We think that perhaps next time we will consider some orlando vacations ie Disney World Florida and perhaps the surrounding area. Not sure when we will be able to do it, but I am going start dreaming of our next holiday!!! BLISS!!

We are back from Paris. Strangely enough the romance seemed to have reduced so much. Admittedly, I did go pregnant and with a toddler… but it was our wedding anniversary. Though it could be the fact that I had a strange lack of shopping in a major shopping capital!! I was a bit too exhausted to shop and shopping with a toddler and husband in tow, really doesn’t work.

On the plus side… the whole family seemed to enjoy the second part of the holiday in Disney. I have to admit that due to being so tired, I limited carrying our camcorders and cameras to one day at Disney. I did allow my hubby to use his compact camera… and I did keep stealing it to take photos… but it is nothing like my dslr! Perhaps I out to do a post of his compact versus my dslr.

I cannot help it, I am still miffed. Everytime I think about our anniversary I cannot help but get a bit miffed. You see we were planning a cruise and well I will be more than 24 weeks pregnant when it is our anniversary and as a general rule cruises do not let you travel with them if you are more than 24 weeks, even if you are only 25 – 26 weeks. So I am tres dissappointed. Still, we will be heading to Paris and EuroDisney, so it is not all bad (except for the high souvenir costs). And hopefully we will go on the cruise sometime in the future. Fingers crossed because with a couple of babies along the way… it is a scary prospect.

Just back from a nice long weekend away. It is always so nice to go off and relax somewhere. Admittedly, we weren’t going for the Outer Banks rentals just Butlins but  I have to say it superceeded my expectations.

We stayed in Gold accomodation, which meant that I had every comfort I needed. As for my son, I have to say it was tremendously special as he met Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, Angelina Ballerina, Barney and Billy the Bear. Even dear hubby was happy as he had time to read and was even able to borrow a couple of complimentary DVD’s. The only drawback was wifi was not available but then again it depends upon whose perspective you are seeing it from. They did have an internet cafe to give a fix to internet junkies and it is meant to be a holiday. After all if you only want internet, then you might as well stay at home!!

I think our favourite bit was the swimming pool or should I say pools? There was a volcano jacuzzi, a kids slide area, a toddler pool, a wave pool, a swirly bubbly area, a cave, a shallow pool, a large pool, flumes and some major rides. We went there daily and stayed hours. It even put the fun fair out of first place (and that had free rides too)!

Hubby wants to make it a week next time… so I must say it comes with our recommendation.

I have been asked a few questions about Disney in Florida, but I fear that there is very little advice I can give having never booked a trip or actually visited. However the one piece of advice I have been given is to hire a car especially if going around Florida. You must bear in mind that you really must be completely protected with insurance when you go to the US – remember they are a sue anything culture! So getting yourself some Florida auto insurance quotes must be a top priority (that is assuming you do wish to rent the car!)