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Rachel Wynn, 32, said it 'was also her friend's birthday that day', to explain why she had drunk so much she ended up spending €800 and being unable to get home from the Balearic Islands.
“I went to my friend's house, but they were already in Ibiza and asked me if I wanted to come,” she said.
She took a cab to Manchester airport at about 02.00 on Monday and bought a ticket for a Jet2 flight just about to leave for Ibiza.
“I can't remember it,” she told the Manchester Evening News.
“I was still lovin' life at the airport.
“It's the stupidest thing I've ever done. I'm not like this usually. I've never done anything like this. I'd been drinking all day at this christening. When I got on the plane, I thought, what have I done?”
Rachel had no clothes with her – only the silk jumpsuit she had worn to the christening – and just her debit card and mobile phone, and has spent around £700 (currently about €763) on her stunt.
And once in Ibiza, she found she could not get home.
She had been due at work at the housing company that employs her at 09.00 on Monday – just seven hours after getting on the plane to Spain – but called her boss to explain what she had done.
“I said I had a flight on Wednesday. He said I had to get a flight sooner than that. I managed to book one for Tuesday morning but they emailed to say there were no flights left,” she told the Manchester Evening News.
“I booked another for tonight (Tuesday) to go via Frankfurt but they didn't send me the tickets in time.”
She managed to get a plane on Wednesday, having spent hundreds of euros on trying to get back to Winton, near Salford, where she lives.
Rachel says her boss was 'not at all happy' at the time but that she thinks 'he is alright about it now'.
“He's a great boss and it's a great company to work for. He'll be disappointed, but hopefully he'll see the funny side.”
Rachel claims the 'only reason she went' to Ibiza is because she 'thought she would be back in time for work' that same morning.
She stayed in a friend's Ibiza hotel room on Monday night.English and found these girls,” Rachel said.
The strangers let her use their bathroom and gave her clean underwear – and turned out to also be from Salford, near where she lives.
It is believed she made it home at some time on Wednesday.
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