The parents of missing Nicola Bulley confirmed she was making plans for the future the night before she disappeared.
The 45-year-old mum and her younger sister Louise planned a spa break and were thinking about the treatments they could get, their mum Dot said. They said she had also bought tickets to watch her children perform at upcoming shows.
Dot, 72, said: "Louise had just booked Ribby Hall because they both had spa vouchers, she had just sent Nicola the night before the treatments. Louise booked it on Friday morning and sent it to Nicola but she never got back to her. They are very close."
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The missing mum's father Ernest added Nicola, a mortgage advisor, was happy with her job and had a meeting with an important client before she went missing. Nicola has been missing from her home in Inskip, Lancashire, since Friday morning when she was last seen walking her dog.
She had dropped her young daughters at school and left the car parked up in St Michaels village, before walking on a footpath along the River Wyre at around 9.15am. A major search involving drones, sniffer dogs, specialist divers, and a police helicopter has been unable to turn up any more clues.
But as the operation enters a sixth day, Nicola's parents said they must keep getting up and endure "another day of hope". Speaking to the Mirror, Ernest said: "We will never stop looking.
"We just dread to think we will never see her again, if the worst came to the worst and she was never found, how will we deal with that for the rest of our lives?"
For mum, Dot, the nights are the hardest. She said: "Our worst time is when it gets dark. We find it really hard to think about wondering 'is she ok' and 'where is she?'
"But [the police] tell us 24 hours a day they are on it and still working. You wake in the night and you can't get back off to sleep."
Recalling their last conversation with Nicola before she disappeared, Ernest said his daughter had no health problems and was in good spirits enjoying her job. He also described his heartbreak at hearing his granddaughters "sobbing their hearts out" when they were told "mummy is lost".
He added: "We don't know how long we can keep going before they realise, they think mummy is coming home soon, but if this keeps going on and on I don't know where we are going to go or what to say to them."
The family applauded the efforts of Lancashire Police as "marvellous" but are just desperate for clues to beloved Nikki's whereabouts. Lancashire Police are keeping an 'open mind' but said they do not believe Nicola has been attacked.
Ernest said: "I think the police thought initially when they saw the phone on the bench and the dog wasn't tethered that she may have gone into the river and that was their main line of search. There was no sign of a slip or falling in so our thought was 'has somebody got her?'.
"I asked the Sergeant from Fleetwood a few days ago, 'is there any chance of her being taken' and she said 'I don't think that's the case'. said 'how can you know that?', it's such an isolated area, the only way that has happened is if it was someone who knew her."
Now their hope is that with all the media surrounding Nicola's case, someone will spot her and report a sighting. Ernest said: "There's so much coverage, it's like a manhunt and at this moment in time we're still no further down the line there's still no clues.
"If we found a part of clothing, a scarf, anything that was found somewhere then there would be a different line of inquiry but there isn't. We have found nothing.
"Louise asked the police the other day, when do you stop looking and he said 'we don't, we keep going until we find somebody'."
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