On Friday 11 May at ridiculous-o’clock in the morning the Disney Bus full of me and my Hens hurtled (quite literally) in the rain to East Midlands Airport.
After the obligatory laugh at each other’s passport photos, we loaded our tightly packed cases onto the conveyor (noting whose bag was the heaviest) and queued up at security. As is becoming the norm nowadays it was a full jackets and shoes off and clear plastic bag carrying liquids check. At this point my sister Kate (who was at the front of us all) started to look very nervous and whispered something to my mum… I began to think my hen do was going to end right there with my younger sister getting convicted in a major drugs and weapons bust. I waited for the alarms to go off as she walked through the detectors in her pink t-shirt with ‘Bashful’ on the back. Relieved that security seemed satisfied, I went through myself and collected my bag, I smiled at Caroline who walked through with her pink t-shirt on. Mum then came through smiling with her … pink t-shirt on… wait a bloomin’ minute – I double-checked Caroline’s top and saw ‘Helen’s Hens, Paris 2007’ on the front!! Everyone duly unveiled their tops, they each had the name of a dwarf on the back (apart from Doc as no-one wanted that!) they weren’t going to show me until later but the security check had put a stop to that plan – I then got presented with ‘Snow White’, so I put it on in the toilets to fit in with the dwarves!
After the obligatory laugh at each other’s passport photos, we loaded our tightly packed cases onto the conveyor (noting whose bag was the heaviest) and queued up at security. As is becoming the norm nowadays it was a full jackets and shoes off and clear plastic bag carrying liquids check. At this point my sister Kate (who was at the front of us all) started to look very nervous and whispered something to my mum… I began to think my hen do was going to end right there with my younger sister getting convicted in a major drugs and weapons bust. I waited for the alarms to go off as she walked through the detectors in her pink t-shirt with ‘Bashful’ on the back. Relieved that security seemed satisfied, I went through myself and collected my bag, I smiled at Caroline who walked through with her pink t-shirt on. Mum then came through smiling with her … pink t-shirt on… wait a bloomin’ minute – I double-checked Caroline’s top and saw ‘Helen’s Hens, Paris 2007’ on the front!! Everyone duly unveiled their tops, they each had the name of a dwarf on the back (apart from Doc as no-one wanted that!) they weren’t going to show me until later but the security check had put a stop to that plan – I then got presented with ‘Snow White’, so I put it on in the toilets to fit in with the dwarves!
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