Monday morning, 5:30 am

Day one

Angst on tour: Slaney’s arrival

The trip begins with us waking up at 5am to several inches of snow outside the window. By 5:30 we’re all outside having a snowball fight. By 5:32, Joel is wearing half a snowball thanks to Caz. At 5:35, we ring Slaney and inform him about the snow so he can alter his travel plans if need be. We leave earlier than we had originally planned to in case the snow on the roads has caused problems.

By 6:40, we’re in the airport and have firmly established ourselves in the pub, eagerly awaiting the arrival of Slaney. We consider attempting to prank him by telling him that Martin is dead, just to see how he takes it, but in the end forget to actually do it, (he informs me that he would have shed a single, dramatic tear.)

Slaney arrives at 8:30, and we proceed to check in. After checking in, we head through security, where Caz is frisked and her laptop swabbed for crack. She is not impressed. Martin’s hat is deemed suspicious, as are Slaney’s shoes. The security screening process breaks Caz’s phone, meaning she is most Displeased.

We then go shopping for vodka, cigarettes and football shirts. Caz smells good!

Then we got on the plane (insert awesome photo here)

Then we got on the actual plane, with Slaney being very eager and excited, this being his first flight. He manages to take 360 photos and two videos while on the plane. In the meantime, Caz is watching Mamma Mia, the in-flight movie, and Martin is claiming that we are travelling to the equator. Caz and Louise correct him on this. Martin maintains that he never meant to say it like that.

Upon landing, we pay to get into Turkey and go to collect our baggage. Were collected for our journey from Dalaman Airport to Marmaris. It takes about an hour and a half, so on this journey Caz sings Mamma Mia songs for the sole purpose of annoying us all, we take small naps and play the well known ‘are we nearly there yet’ game. Louise doesn’t like that game.

After we have sorted out rooms we hop out for dinner and everyone goes for a Turkish dish…..barring Martin who goes for the steak!

We settle in for a well earned night’s rest after all of this travelling, so after some chatting, knocking on doors and pillow throwing we sleep. Only to be woken up at around 4am to a rather large thunder storm. Well Louise, Caz and Slaney were awake anyway…..