Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

ok so a quick recap on the good bits of the holiday and I’ll try to add some pics too. (might be later on though as flickr is getting grumpy with me)

With it being half term time it was fairly busy with more than the Saga brigade at Tenerife and any visions I had of just chilling somewhere went pretty rapidly once I saw how busy it got next to the pool. We tried it on the 2nd day as we’d arranged to meet my mum and dad there and it was my idea of hell - noisy kids!! Especially bad when I don’t have my own to worry over So we tried to do some cool stuff there rather than just blob about. The kids were desperate to spend a night with us so when they did we took them on a boat trip to see some whales and dolphins.

Really loved it, I even got some good pics but managed to wipe them off the camera a few days later and was so gutted.

James and I walked loads. My new Crocs got a real hammering and didn’t once give me blisters. I got the kids some too and Alex hasn’t taken hers off! She’s still insisting on wearing them even though it’s been raining since we got home!

My mum and dad treated us all to a day out to Loro Parque which is a large zoo with som fab orca, dolphin and sea lion shows.

We decided to sit in the splash zone of the orca show and got rather wet as these photos of Alex show

before

after

actually that pic was not representative of her mood after being splashed - she was not impressed!!! The dolphin and sea lion shows were much drier and she liked them much more!! Had a fab day there and resolved to bring the kids back another time to see it all again (another holiday though).

It was Carnaval time for some of our holiday and James and I ventured up to Santa Cruz to watch it, was lovely to have an evening to ourselves, and fab to watch.

Ugly Betty at the Carnaval!!

Batteries ran out at the carnival so photos were sparse, wasn’t having a good camera holiday!!

A lot of time was spent at my mums complex where we had our 2nd week (all 3 days of it!) as her balcony was HUGE so I could chill out and read my books in peace. The kids were in the pool loads and have really come on with their confidence.

And although that was a very brief round up of it, I can’t be bothered to go into the nitty gritty of it, nor subject you to James’ 250 photos of sunsets and mountains!! I think we’ll go back to tenerife one day, i’m so not a package holiday person, but there was a lot there that we enjoyed and more we wanted to do but didn’t have time for. Plus we promised another trip to Loro Parque! So although not a honeymoon really, it was a lovely holiday.