Beauty Queens and Little Black Books.

Dad has travelled the world. He loves to experience different cultures even if he does refer to Asians as “Dirty Buggers” and Mexicans as “Money Grabbers!” 

The last time he holidayed alone it was to Benidorm in 2014 and he returned with a little book of phone numbers and a story to tell about the woman he met who used to be a pole dancer in a bar in Greece! (That’s for another blog!)

Since 2014 Dads mobility has deteriorated, but he still wants to travel and add more phone numbers to his little book! 

So here we are in Furtaventura  in 2018 and Dad is still collecting numbers but it seems I am cramping his style.

He keeps sending me to the bar so that he can try and catch the attention of the two ladies on the next table( one who is also in a wheelchair) 

I returned with a glass of wine just in time to hear his chat up line of

“So how long have you been using a wheelchair!!

I just can’t help but chuckle as well as admire his determination to impress the ladies with his tales.

We spend an hour a day at the local dive centre where my hubby Mark is working with the finalists of Miss Scuba Uk. We arrive just as the boat is returning from the dive site.

The girls come out of the water and peel off their wet suit in the dive centre bar where we are having a beer. 

These girls are extremely fit and they are wearing very small bikinis. As they come across to talk to us they shake off the excess water from their long hair and I wonder if Dad wishes he had his little book of phone numbers.

I get ready to apologise in case he offers his knee to one if not all of them.

Then just before they arrive at our table an aeroplane flies overhead and he looks up and identifies the exact make and model of the said aeroplane and spends the next 10 minutes talking about the Dreamliner to these scantily clad Miss Scubas. They tried to appear interested and smiled sweetly at him before excusing themselves to  sit with a group of young German divers. I’m not sure If Dad was aware of their complete disinterest or maybe he’s realised that he has more chance with Mary in the wheelchair back at the pool bar!

Dad is providing me with so much material I can’t write it quick enough!

Get ready for the one when we hit a bump in the road and Dad had to helped back in the wheelchair!

I’m off to get another beer as it’s the only thing that’s keeping me sane.