holiday and interview #13

We went on holiday... :)

at the airport before checking in

sandy toes

Evie on the beach

We had one minor hiccup and that was with a show we had prebooked at the travel agents...

...they said that we didnt need to include travel but we did, and because we had booked another trip on the day that the company booked through would do the travel from where we were staying we had to rebook the show (with travel in the resort).

I told the travel agents wht had happened and they asked me to save my receipts and to go in.  I went in the day after we had returned home and someone was supposed to come back to me on Friday...

...but I havent heard anything from them yet...

...and talking of not hearing anything I never heard back from interview #12 - I told the bloke that I was going away the following week for a week so I thought that perhaps he was waiting for me to come back.

And the day after I came back from holiday I had my interview #13 - I knew that I wouldnt get the job when she asked if I would work over Christmas?  I was totally honest and said that I probably couldnt as the after school/out of school holiday club (that Im hoping to use) is closed between Christmas and New Year.

I will keep on applying for jobs :)

they charged us twice

On Tuesday we went to see Peter Kay at the O2 Arena.

We booked up a hotel (through a hotel booking website) to stay the night so we didnt have to rush back that night and worrying about missing the last train home.

So I booked the hotel and payment was taken...

So we checked into the hotel and they found our reservation ok (which was good).

We got to the O2 Arena at about 5pm ish and were just hanging about drinking coffees and trying to kill time until the show starts (Entertainment Avenue was no more than just restaurants), that was not James idea of entertainment at all!

So we were eventually allowed in and we found our seats (which were really high up).

The support act was Rick Astley he was really good and finished with Never Going to Give You Up which had everyone grooving ;o)

Peter Kay was really good too, apparently (if he was telling the truth and not porkies (Kelly you can translate this from pork pies in that book I sent you ;o)) they were recording the show we saw for the dvd ;o).

He even kindly told us that there was an encore so not to walk out early thinking that it was finished.

Do you know that despite being told that there was an encore loads of people walked out early. The encore was the best part in my opinion ;o)

Anyhow the next morning we went to check out and the receptionist told me that I still had to pay for the room, I said "I think that I have already paid for that " and she said "no, your card was just used for the reservation but no money has been taken"...

...now I was pretty sure that I had already paid and not wanting to cause a scene I paid for our room (again), but when I got into work this morning I checked on my internet banking and sure enough I had already paid (bloody cheek).

So I have e-mailed them (both the hotel and the company I booked the room through) to complain...

...I will let you know what happens.