After all that hastle you’re back in the car and driving to the airport. Your younger siblings get bored easily and ask every five minutes whether we 're there yet; of course you are getting annoyed with them and on the edge of an argument, when your mother relieves the situation by playing a game like looking out for different animals in fields. That keeps them quiet for a hour or so!
Once within the grounds of the airport, the first struggle is to find a parking spot. Most spaces are already taken and drivers are left battling to get the next available spot.
Everyone soon clambers out the stuffed car and stretches their arms and legs which have often gone stiff or numb from the journey. The younger siblings rush off with their father to get a trolley for the luggage while the eldest child and their mother start unloading heavy luggage out of the car.
Eventually all the luggage is hauled out of the car and on to the trolley and the whole family stroll towards the airport.
Often when you step inside an airport in the holiday season you wished you never arrived and turn back to leave but your parents are always there to pull you back in. The noise of people talking rises bit by bit to a point that you find it hard to concentrate and hear the person you’re talking to. Queues are normally agonisingly long and young children get impatient and bored and