Heather and Katie's Week of FUN!

So, we're back from the Canary Islands. I'll try not to bore you too much with holiday stories, but here are a few of the things that happened to us...

Our adventure started as our plane descended into Fuerteventura. There was a LOT of turbulance. Eventually we reached the runway and the tyres hit the ground and bounced up and down quite a lot. A few seconds later, we realised that instead of gradually slowing down, we were speeding up. And then a really odd thing happened. The plane took off again. It was all quite surreal and it was only when I looked out the window and realised how high up we were that I turned to Heather (not the keenest of flyers) who looked really freaked out. We then laughed nervously and decided that the pilot must have landed on the wrong island and had hoped that nobody would notice. Ten minutes later (a very long time when pondering your own mortality- why hadn't there been an announcement?! What was GOING ON?!!) the voice of the Spanish pilot came onto the intercom. The static was bad and his English wasn't great anyway, so the announcement went something like this:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, you may be aware that *static* plane *static* circling *static*. We experienced some problem *static* wing *static* landing. We try again. Thank you."

Well, that's what Heather heard anyway. The rest of us heard 'strong wind' instead of 'wing'. Which obviously changes the meaning a little. Anyway, the pilot managed to land the plane eventually, to much raptuous applause, and so our holiday finally began.

Here are a few pictures from our trip:

1) Heather took this without me realising. You can take the girl out of England...

2) A banana split without the banana. We discovered, after complaining, that it really should have been named 'The Banana Flavoured Ice Cream Split'. Rubbish.

3) We went across to Lanzorote for the day on Friday, and did a bit of dolphin spotting too. Unfortunately none of the dolphin photos came out, so here's a picture of Heather and I after the tour guide gave us blankets because we were cold... (it was a boat packed with tourists, and we were the only two who had blankets... such high maintenance!):

Some memorable quotes from the trip include:

'This is NOT what I ordered.'

- Heather, after opening the curtains on our first morning to discover it was cloudy.

'Don't worry, my little fruitbowl. It'll be fine.'

- A man we overheard reassuring his girlfriend. We burst out laughing.

'Please put other bag on scales. Before plane leaves.'

- Impatient Spanish check-in guy at airport.

(After checking passport photo) 'Come again soon, my darlings. You are welcome here always. *sleazy wink* Don't go home, please don't go!'

- Final security check man proving that they don't seem to take their job quite as seriously over there...

We had a brilliant time!!!