“Girls are you packed?”
“Yeah, Mum are we going fancy fancy?”
“Of course, it’s not every day my sister turns 50. Have you got the tickets, John?”
“Yeah just here.”
“Is this a joke?”
“What?”
“Look at the destination.”
“What’s the problem?”
“Alicante! We are supposed to be going to Arrecife!”
“Oh shit!”
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This was written for Sacha Black‘s writespiration challenge, to write no more or no less than 52 words with the prompt given. This week’s prompt was…
The Big Birthday
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everywhere-and-nowhere.com 
i’m going to have to google what the difference is between the two places…
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Alicante is mainland Spain and Arrecife is the Canary Islands, bit of a distance 😊
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I did learn the other day (i suck at georg) that if you holiday in Alicante its in short distance of Benadorm
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Hahaha. Great ending that could also be a beginning. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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Oh my! I have a feeling John would NOT hear the end of it 😂
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Nope it has been a family joke for over ten years now ☺
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HAHAHA It’s a true story? EVEN better, brilliant entry.
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Yeah my dad has never lived it down, especially as we had to go because it was too late to change the tickets and it ended up raining the whole time we were there. My mum threatened my dad with divorce at every spare opportunity, it was really funny 🙂
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