This blog will be loooong but I dont care because I want a blog to comemorate the amazing time I had on the little island of crete and more specifically in the buzzing town of MALIA!
Day 1
Somehow we all managed to get up at 4 and get to Gatwick for half 5. It was tough but we did it somehow!!! The flight was soo LOOONG especially as ours was delayed by an hour and half which meant we were waiting for ages then our plane was swapped around so they didnt even have a bar. That turned out to be hilarious as the announcement of "No alcohol on board" was greeted with a plane full of young people booing. We arrived at our hotel/apartment complex at about 5 o clock in ze afternoon in Crete which is 3 in England as we were 2 hours ahead.
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| The fishbowl called a Sexy Mother F***er for obvious reasons |
And even though we had just turned up in the country we decided to go out on the lash that very night and boy was it eventful. Walking onto the strip we were yelled at by 2 guys who said "Its your first night init girls". We replied uncertainly like "Ermm yea.." and were like how the hell did they know that!!! Well looking back now, 5 girls walking onto the strip with our jaws on the flaw as we take in the hubbub of activity which has suddenly been thrown in our faces may give it away, but maybe also the fact we were all so bloody pale compared to everyone else out partying.
The night was good but clearly as we were Malia virgins we drank way too much and in the words of one of the Welsh Reps we managed to get "Absolutely Paraletic!". I should explain now about the reps who try and PR you into their bar. Basically they approach you as you walk down the strip like "alright girls, wher eyou from...." then bombard you with the deals they have at their respective bars and why you should come to theirs as its so amazing and so much better than the others. We managed to get a few reps on our side who would recognise and throw in a few extra free drinks, especially the ones who took a fancy to Jess (Connor, Alex and James), Sammie (man with nice eyes and malibu man) and Leanne ("once you've had black you'll never go back"). But that night proved to be the scariest by far when Sammie decided to probably drink more than her own weight in alcohol and pass out in the toilets with me and Leanne. Thank god we had found Harry (friend of Leanne and Becky) who proved to be the biggest hero ever.
So as Sammie is trowing up in an alley way he says
"Does anyone have a tissue? No?"
*Takes off and sacrifices his own t-shirt*
What a hero.
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| Paraletic in less the 5 minutes |
I honestly have never seen so much sick in my entire life and how that can come out of just one person is beyond me. It was truly awful so after an hour of having Sammie in the recovery position by the side of the street in Malia and finally persuading a taxi driver to get us back to the hotel we got back to the room. Harry had had to carry Sammie as a dead weight up the ridiculously steep hill which led up to our apartments and then we spent the whole of the rest of the night up with Sammie hoping that she wouldnt die before morning.
Truly awful, but I spose it did benefit us for the rest of the holiday as we certainly watched everything we drank because we werent sure but thought maybe she had been spiked and also it brought us closer as a group. When you dont have a grown up to tell you everything is going to be alright you grow in literally seconds. I was almost as messy as Sammie but could still walk so my goal for the first few hours of that night was to sober up, so for a while I just sat in the corner of the room eating crisps and bread and drinking water until I then moved onto the bed to look after Sammie as well.
Day 2
As you would have guessed the next day we woke up to Sammie still unwell but asleep and we knew that sleeping it off was the best thing for her. This is when our sunbathing began! And we all stayed relatively white for a few days, we sampled some of the resturant food which was lovely. The night out was one of no drinking for Sammie and one of the worst nights for me as some person decided to make a specticle of themselves, even if they weren't even part of our group and tried everything to shun me from any involvment in what we were all doing. Pathetic really and I only got upset due to consumption of alcohol so I ended up sobering it up with Samantha for the night.
Day 3
We discovered our 2 favourtite bars of all time! and turned them into our regular stops.
The R and B bar proved to be a popular place for Jess, Leanne, Becky and Sammie specifically as its mor etheir music than mine but it did result in me being taught how to 'grind' by Jess haha. sooo funny. Jess and Becky also fell in love with the DJ from that bar aswell. He wasn't too appealing to me leanne and Sammie due to his missing teeth. Then down the road from R and B was pop world which was personally my favourite. You know when you go to a party and for about an hour you get the songs which are totally cheesy well imagine that but ALL NIGHT! Dirty Dancing was one of my personal favourites and the fact that you can dance like a kid and no one judges you.
As you can see form the photo the tans are starting to appear!!!!! And also we never usually wore our own clothes a swapped most of hte time. That night I wore leanne's top and sammie's skirt lol. I thought I looked quite holiday like and tropical as I dont usually wear such bright colours. That night I also randomly bumped into Emily who I spent the whole of this year at college sitting next to in history. I had totally forgotten she'd be out there so when I saw her I was literally screaming EMILY! at the top of my voice then ran over and jumped on her. naturally we got a photo together haha we both look tre tre drunk.
Day 4
We had A LOT of fun with Jess's underwater camera and even thought most of the underwater photos were hideous it was hilarious whilst taking them anyway so was worth it. That night out we found are favourite bar/club in the form of Corkers! It proved to be a popular place for most people and where we would meet Harry and his lot then where I again bumped into someone from college, this time Chris from my Drama class.
One of the best pictures I got was when Tinie Tempah came on and then out of no where appeared I guy who looked exactly like him. Afterwards Rihanna came on and everyone started point at Sammie. But thanks to Sammie's hair for most of the holiday us five were refered to as The Saturdays, we all look nothing like them apart from Sammie and Leanne but I see the point lol.
Day 5
We saw rather more shenanigans this night including the presence of the most hilarious Greek man selling roses who thought that Harry was married to all of us and we all had different nights of the week, just so he would buy 5 roses and not just one. I saw lovely miss Steph Cann who I saw for a bit in the club Cloud 9 and it was lovely to see her and all her friendlings, they're all still out there at the moment, probably laughing at how I was when I last saw them. Lets just say on the lats night I drank quite alot and fell into them all. haha.
That night in Corkers so me and Chris take to the bar and demonstrate our amazing dancing skills to all within the bar which I'm sure they all enjoyed. I got after I almost slipped and fell off due to the surface being covered in god knows what drinks.
Day 6
After a week of people watching round the pool we finally spoke to some peoples from our hotel. After havign a drink at the Pool Bar before heading out and me and Sammie being forced to do some Kareoke to Justin Beiber a group of lads from Nottingham offered to buy us some Skittle Bombs and we got talking to them. We also found out that when we had been in peril on monday night, one of the guys Tom had come up to us on the strip offering to help. and after asking where we were staying asked if they could help cos they were staying there too. Of course we didnt believe them and were like 'yea yea go away!' as it really was not the time to be hit on. Jess in few words told them where to go, so when we saw them round the pool the next day we were tre tre embarrassed. But after nicknaming Jess as 'Violent' he forgave her and stayed mates.

Out in Malia we had another AMAZING night. Another night of drunken and dancing antics and it was so so so so so fun :D. Jess was knighted as Captain Jess as she was the person who chose the bars and also took on the reps who were trying to entice us with their deals.
Day 7
We saw the lads from our hotel again but they looked honestly hilarious as they had decided to dress up as babies for the evening and they honestly looked hilarious!!!
As our last night we wore our Malia t-shirts and drank an excesssive amount of booze. It was an amazing night to end on even if at one point I couldnt actually stand up and had to be carried by Sammie.
Having our names on the back of our tops proved to be hilarious as yells of our names followed us down the strip. It was such a good night, such a good holiday and getting up the next day was very very hard.
Plane Journey
I had one of the most embarrassing moments ever on the plane back as I had to tell the stewardess about my allergies they then did a big announcement to the whol eof th eplane that they wouldnt be serving any nuts on board. Some of the London boys from our hotel then stood up and pointed me out on the plane. And for the next few minutes the people around us proceeded to say stuff really loud like "Oh I really fancy a snickers now." Stupid Allergies!!!!
So the holiday was very exciting and dramatic and so so so much fun with the girls. Yet the worst part for me was how much I missed my boy (who if any drunken zombie's asked was 6"7 a professional footballer and in the bar opposite so they had better back off asap or just for mine and Sammie's amusement a few nights we were a lesbian couple haha). By about friday I was literally in pieces, after seeing someone almost everyday and then going for a week with barely any contact and not actually seeing them it was hard. Leanne was the same, a few times she got a bit upset about not seeing Jason which didnt help me haha. The little things like saying goodnight or even just telling me that i am the biggest geek he knows were the things I missed the most. Opening my front door yesteday I dont think I have had a smile that big in a long time. Even if the second thing said to me was "Hey Freckles" which have decided to take over the whole of my face!!!! I miss you beyond belief and am glad to be home. Also missed ma famille too of course, even if I did scare them when I came in and talked non stop for about 3 hours then just totally crashed out haha.
Love xxx