I'm still working through the photos from the Shan clans' trip to Lanzarote back in June. It was our first holiday abroad in almost three years, so we took quite a lot of snaps!!

The first two pics were taken by the hotel photographers, and they very nicely caught us fooling around -- Mrs Shan and I love nothing more than tickling the kids until they scream!!!

Although we spent most of our time in our hotel (the Gran Castillo Tagoro, which I highly recommend), we went to a nearby waterpark on one of the days, and here's a photo of Mrs Shan and the kids marking our arrival. Oddly, although our daughter Gaia loves slides, she was afraid of the water slides, so she didn't do much in there apart from go round the lazy river many times!! Dante was braver and went on most of the attractions, although I was the only one brave enough to dare the "toilet bowl" ride!!!

The final photo was taken in our hotel pool. If Gaia was expecting me to catch her when she jumped in... she was very much mistaken!!!!