"Baby we're going on holiday." Sandra told her daughter as she put the phone down and picked Olivia up before carrying her up the stairs.

"Can I take Boo?" Olivia asked, Boo was her teddy that she'd had since birth.

"Course you can. How about you come and sit on mummy's bed while I sort my stuff out and then we'll sort yours." Sandra asked as she put the little girl on the floor and watched her run through to her room and bounce on her bed.

As she'd expected it wasn't long until Olivia was fast asleep on her bed as Sandra finished packing her stuff. The problem was that Sandra didn't know how long they'd be away for, she couldn't help the butterflies in her tummy, she was nervous. She didn't have the time to sit and dwell though, they had a plane to catch and they had to be ready.

Olivia was fast asleep and showed no sign of waking anytime soon. Normally she'd have left her but right now they had somewhere to be, she still didn't want to wake her daughter so after packing the car with their suitcase and Olivia's pram, she lifted Olivia and strapped her into her car seat as she snored gently.

It wasn't long until they were at the arirport and now Sandra was faced with the issue of pushing Olivia in the pram and carrying two suit cases, This was why she so rarely travelled and usually Olivia wasn't in the pram.

She'd now managed to sort the pram out and get Olivia into it without having woken her and a man had stopped to help her load the cases onto a trolley to transport inaide.

It was almost 9 when they'd gotten through security and Olivia was now wide awake but grumpy for having been woken. Their plane wasn't 40 minutes so she took Olivia out of the pram.

"Don't cry Liv, please." Sandra said as she cuddled her baby close. "Come on we're going to see Granny."

"Why can't she come to see us?"

"Well you've never been to London."

"Have so!" Olivia protested.

"When?" Sandra asked deciding to humour her.

"Yesterday."

"Really? Because I seem to remember you went to playgroup and then when I picked you up you went to ballet."

"No, I went to London." Olivia continued her grumpy protest.

"Can mummy have a cuddle?" Sandra asked as Olivia, who had been sat on the seat next to her mother, climbed onto her lap. "Once upon a time there lived a little princess called Olivia and she had to go on a trip with her mummy. They were going to see her Granny and spend some time doing whatever Olivia wanted to do…" Sandra looked down to see the little girl was asleep and saw no point in continuing her story, which was just as well because she didn't know where it was going.

The plane was almost full once they'd qotten on and with only 10 minutes until departure it was probably just as well.

"I'm bored mummy."

"Well once we're up in the clouds, it'll only be an hour until we're there."

"Then what?"

"Then we drive to a hotel and go to sleep because it's late."

"But I'm not tired."

"Okay well sit tight and put your fingers in your ears." Olivia giggled as she did but it was in order to keep her smiling and her ears okay during take off.

"How much longer? I'm bored mummy." Olivia asked having not gone to sleep as Sandra had expected she would.

"Not long, watch out the window and tell me what you see." Sandra told her knowing full well that outside the plane window was darkness.

"I see a giraffe." Olivia told her.

"Are you sure?" Sandra asked smiling.

"Yes." Olivia said and nodded to further make her point.

"He must have a long neck."

"It's a girl! Boys are smelly!"

"Okay then, just you remember that." Grace had always said that Sandra had been the same, that was until she figured out that they served a purpose.

"We're here little girl, have you got Boo princess?" Olivia nodded as they both stood up before Sandra took the little girl's hand. "Are you wrapped up warm? It's colder here." Sandra asked before standing into the side and doing Olivia's coat up and then reaching back down for her hand.

"Is Granny here?"

"No, we're going to go to bed and then see Granny tomorrow."