Once we arrived at the airport we got checked in surprisingly quickly but then had to hang around the airport for a couple of hours until we were due to board.We got some breakfast and then stopped at WHSmith to invest in some magazines.I chose the mindnumbdingly,oh so interesting OK magazine and the 'You should be thinner,wear this,wear that,this is cool,have sex' Cosmopolitan.

The flight itself was quite good.For a supposedly 'no frills' airline,they handed out a lot of free stuff - free earphones,free sweets when taking off and landing and lots of free drinks all throughout the flight.The food was,as is expected of airplane food,dull,stodgy and tasteless.It came under the name of tomato pasta but didn't have a taste closely resembling tomato.The croissants we received shortly before landing were a bit better though.

The flight felt to me as though it passed in three hour sections.The first three were fine as I slept quite a lot.The middle three were a disaster as I had a bit of an embarrassing problem.I dunno if I have a shy bladder or what it is because this is insanely stupid but I couldn't pee.I was dying on a pee for two and a half hours but every time I went to the toilet,I couldn't pee.Its not as if people can even hear you on a plane or anything.Bet you're glad I let you in on that piece of interesting information.Anyway,I managed eventually.The last three hours of the plane journey just dragged and I had a headache and felt sick.

They were showing two films on the flight:27 Dresses and Dumb and Dumber.I wanted to watch the first one but unfortunately couldn't as the sound things weren't working on our side of the plane.

I was pretty cold all throughout the flight as,against the recommendations of my parents,I hadn't brought a jumper as we were going to be landing in sunny Florida where it would be hot so a jumper would just be in the way.Not at 20,000 feet or whatever it is,when you're freezing,don't have any form of in-flight entertainment and are just trying to get to sleep it isn't.So to anyone who's going on holiday this summer,no matter how hot a destination you're headed to:TAKE A JUMPER! or you'll be freezing your arse off on the plane.

We finally landed after numerous non-understandable messages over the intercom from the captain which I think were about time and temperature and all that jazz.Isn't it always so hard to understand the captain when they speak through the intercom?The cabin crew are fine,unless they're speaking at a million miles an hour,but the captain,I can never understand.

We got our luggage and rental car quickly and then headed off on the journey to find the villa,which took more than a little while.By the time we got there,I was shattered but my mother insisted that there was no point going into the house and unpacking before we had bought any water or food.So we headed off to find Walmart,which was,surprisingly,just down the road.I've never been in a shop so huge.Take the Asda-Walmart in Livingston and times it by about three and then you're maybe just about there.It was massive.Anyway,we stocked up on neccessitys,including lots and lots of Ben and Jerrys lol,and then headed to the place we'd be calling home for the next fortnight.

After a quick nap [it was only mid-afternoon there by this point] I jumped straight into the pool.

It was the perfect temperature.It was such a relief to swim after not being able to,so to speak,because of my hair for the past year and a half.It felt so good.That was one of the things I was looking forward to the most about this holiday,finally being able to swim again after not swimming at home for fear of bumping into anyone I know.Having a private pool was great.