10 Things Bound To Happen When You Go On Holiday With More Than Three Friends
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Sun, sea, sand and free-flowing alcoholic beverages are always the prime ingredients for an amazing summer holiday. However, there’s always something about a trip to sunnier climates that makes us lose our inhibitions.
Whether it’s dancing on tables after one too many shots, or narrowly avoiding disaster, there are some common calamities that always make a big group of girls’ grip one to remember.
1. You nearly miss the flight
You could tattoo the flight itinerary to your mates’ forehead and set off klaxons as their morning alarm, but you can always bet your bottom dollar there will be one person who sends the fear of god into everyone when they fail to show up at the airport. After numerous phone calls and panicked texts they finally arrive, all nonchalant, five minutes before check-in closes and make the flight by the skin of their teeth.
2. Someone ends up borrowing money
You’ve barely even been on holiday for a full 24 hours before one of your mates loses their wallet and you end up having to half your hard-earned spending money to make sure they can eat (well, drink).
3. You all get lured into trying a mysterious new shot
‘We’re just going for one drink’, they said. ‘It will be fun!’ they said. Five double vodka soda limes and three fishbowls later, someone wants to up the anti by ordering a round of those dodgy looking shots you’re not even sure are legal, BUT you down it anyway and suffer the consequences later.
4. Someone gets lucky
One minute you spy your mate having a cheeky kiss on the dance floor and the next minute they’ve disappeared only to remerge at midday the following afternoon after doing a horrendous walk of shame in their clothes from the night before. Tut, tut!
5. A fierce tanning competition
The inevitable quest to see who can get more tanned is bound to happen. However lathering yourself in oil and laying out to fry in the sun is swiftly regretted when you’re plagued with sunburn and spending the rest of the holiday looking like a lobster. Oh, and anyone who got a ‘base-tan’ with a cheeky pre-holiday sun bed is a total cheat!
6. Plenty of nudity
Whether it’s wearing next to nothing on your night out, a game of ruth or dare that went way too far or the old adage of moonlight skinny-dipping, you can always guarantee someone will flash the flesh.
7. Someone goes M.I.A
There were eight of you went you left, and now there’s only seven. PANIC! All your worst nightmares such as checking the local hospitals and deciding whose going to make the dreaded call to their family will be rushing through your head, but it normally turns out your mate just stumbled home drunk and fell asleep on the kitchen floor.
8. Vomit…and lots of it.
Someone will always be sick! Whether they had one too many glasses of sangria or just happened to catch a local bug, you’ll probably find yourself making a trip to the local pharmacy or tying someones hair back. Note to self: Stock up on that Alka-Seltzer.
9. Getting stopped at customs after trying to smuggle back way to much booze and alcohol.
At the end of an amazing trip, it only makes sense that you spend whatever cash you have left on booze and fags right? Well, just make sure you have less than 800 cartons of cigarettes and 10 litres of booze when returning to the U.K otherwise you’ll find yourself getting a grilling from airport security.
10. Getting tagged in all the embarrassing photos
The pact you made at the beginning of the holiday, ‘What happens in Ibiza, stays in Ibiza’ is always short lived when you’re suddenly spammed with 100 Facebook and Instagram notifications from friends tagging you in a string of compromising photos.
Of course, the holiday dramas and cringe-worthy moments are all forgotten as you look back and laugh at all the brilliant memories.
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