Santorini August 2014.

Last week i went on a family holiday to a small Greek Island called Santorini. It's the most beautiful and idyllic place i have ever visited. It's very peaceful and has the most spectacular views of the Aegean Sea. We stayed in a beautiful resort called the El Greco which offered us the choice of five swimming pools,spa,gym, pool side bar and two continental breakfast restaurants. The hotel was very clean and had a traditional Greek feel to it especially with all the white buildings. Every room had a baloney with a small table and two chairs so you could enjoy the evening outside watching the sunset over the sea. 

We flew to Santorini with Thomson on a package holiday which included, flights, coach transfers from the airport and the hotel for a week. The flight wasn't too long, it took just over three hours on the way out and three hours and forty minutes on the way home and that's flying from London Gatwick. We've done a few Thomson holidays in the years previous to a few different places in Italy and we have enjoyed the thought of been able to relax as soon as you get on the plane. We like the hassle free feel you get with the thought of a holiday rep meeting you at the other end of the flight and taking you to a designated coach that takes you straight to your hotel or resort you really don't need to worry about anything. Thomson also provide you with a small welcome talk either on the same day or the following day to welcome you to your destination but to talk about the different excisions they have to offer, i would defiantly recommend going to the welcome talk as they provide with a lot of useful information.  This time we booked two excursions with Thomson, we booked one that included a wine tour and an evening in Oia to watch the sunset and the other tour we booked was to the volcano island by boat and included a quick swim in the mud baths on the way back to the island. 

I would defiantly love and suggest to anyone to go to Santorini it was such a beautiful peaceful island. I've come back home feeling very relaxed and recharged. Here's a few pictures from the week! 

Pretty blue & white buildings.

Such a beautiful view.

Me & my sister.

Santorini is well known for their beautiful sunsets.

One of the five swimming pools the resort had to offer. 

Some of the lanes in Thera.

There were so many stray cats- I was in cat heaven! 

I would defiantly suggest to anyone to go and visit Santorini for a week, there is plenty to do and see and it's such a relaxing welcoming island.  

Smilelign UPDATE!

Sorry i haven't posted in a while, things have been very hectic with work, going to see family in Dublin and taking a long weekend break in the Lake District.

I've been getting on very well with Smilelign and the results i am seeing with my upper teeth is amazing! I'm on aligner number three and i am due to swap to my final upper aligner tomorrow. I still have a few more aligners to go on my lower set as they are worse than my uppers.

I am so happy with my uppers, they have moved along well and I can really notice the results especially with the one tooth that slightly overlapped, there is just a little bit of moving left which should happen when I put my last aligner in tomorrow. It's strange to think that my upper set will all be finished in the next three weeks! I can't believe it!

However things haven't progressed as much as I wanted them to with my lower set. They haven't moved much even though the aligners seem to be going in fine and after three weeks become loose they just haven't moved. I did visit my dentist three weeks ago and he advised me to carry on with the next two lower aligners and then when I go back for my next visit that he may need to do some filling on my two front teeth as they may not have enough room to move. I will keep you posted on that. 

Aligner number three went in ok, I put this aligner in during an appointment with my dentist, at first it felt like I didn't fit quite compared to the other aligner previously, my dentist knew exactly what to do and trimmed some of the edges at the back off and the aligners went in much better. About two weeks of wearing the aligner i started to notice that they were starting to show wear which i discovered was due to grinding my teeth every night! A few days before i was due to move onto aligner number four my brace actually spilt where the wear was, i called up my dentist and he said that as i'm only a few days away from moving onto the next aligner that i should be ok, he said i could move onto the next aligner a few days early if it broke completely but i was very delicate when taking it out and managed to get it to last till the Friday.

I've just moved onto aligner number four which is my final aligner for my upper set and have worn it two days and it has cracked already! It still feels tight on my teeth but i'm still not completely happy that it's broken so quickly. I'm going to see how i get on and if it cracks more than i'm going to have to book in to see my dentist. I'm slightly concerned that when i get my final aligners to put in every night when i go to sleep they are just going to crack after a few days or weeks then what am i going to do? That is one questions i need to ask my dentist and will fill you in on what he says.

So far i'm happy with how the treatment is progessing i just wish that my lower set were moving too as i feel like once he makes some room between my two lower teeth that i'm going to be a few weeks behind with my treatment plan, i will update in three weeks time and let you know how i got on when i go and see him again.