Alton Towers & The Enchanted Village!

Hi!

First of all, I hope you all had a great Easter, and if you don't celebrate Easter, hope you had a great weekend! On Friday, my parents took me & my sister to stay at the new Alton Towers Enchanted Village. It was amazing, we all really enjoyed it. My sister, who is 7 years old, loved the little play areas dotted around the site. One of the things I liked was that all of the decor had the same theme. The lodges immediately reminded me of a Tinkerbell film or something! The main room had a double bed and a small fridge with water bottles in it and biscuits, coffee & tea on top of it. The second bedroom was very magical-looking, with a fairy tree wallpaper and a patterned floor.
The food in the restaurants was also really good. We ate in the Emperor's Grill and the Crooked Spoon. When you stay in the village, you can still go to the main Alton Towers hotel or the Splash Landings hotel for entertainment or food.

Also, can we just appreciate this photo I took of my sister!

The next day, we decided to go to the theme park. I'm a massive rollercoaster fanatic, I absolutely love them.  I went on the Smiler straight after taking my sister on Spinball Whizzer because it's literally my favourite ride in the entire park. Also, the new Galactica ride opened the day before we went, and I really wanted to try it! If you've ever been on Air, it's the same ride but they've renamed it Galactica and added Virtual Reality goggles. So basically headsets that you wear which make you feel like you're in outer space. Sounds amazing, but turns out it was actually a really bad idea. They tell you how long the line is based on how long it takes to get through the line on the other rollercoasters in the park, but a 30 minute line ended up taking 90 minutes. They were really slow at loading the cars because every individual person had to have their headsets equipped and focused. In the end, the ride wasn't even that good anyway, so I definitely wouldn't recommend that you try it out. That was the only part of the weekend I didn't really enjoy, but the rest was amazing!

In case you're wondering, the younger girl in these pictures is my sister.

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3 Ingredient Nutella Brownies

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So at the weekend, I went to a house party and I wanted to take something as a thankyou for the host. I ended up making these delicious nutella brownies, which are ridiculously easy to make and taste amazing. Obviously, since they went down so well, I wanted to share the recipe on here! This recipe makes 12-16 brownies depending on how small you cut them.

Ingredients:

280g nutella
2 eggs
65g flour
Cocoa powder (optional- it's more for decoration than taste)

Start off by lightly greasing an 8x8" square baking dish. Put that to one side, and start to combine the ingredients in a mixing bowl. I found that the easiest way to do this is to put all of the nutella, both eggs and half of the flour in to start with. Whisk it together (I used a hand whisk so I'm not sure whether or not an electric whisk would work), then add the other half of the flour. Keep whisking it until you have a smooth, lump-free mixture. Pour it into the pan and flatten the top using a spatula or the back of a spoon. If the top is uneven, part of the brownie will be burnt. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, depending on how gooey you want them to be. Leave to cool, then finish with a dusting of cocoa powder. It's that simple!

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Isla Mujeres

Hi! 

I had a present this Christmas that was completely different to any present I'd ever had before. You may know that I spent Christmas in Cancun, Mexico, and the present was tickets to go on an excursion to a place called Isla Mujeres. We did lots of amazing stuff, including a dolphin swim, zip wire over the sea,  and much more, so I thought I'd write a run down of what happened here on my blog (I always feel awkward talking about this kind of stuff to my friends, is that just me? Yes? Ok haha).

The first thing we did after our early start (ugh) was catch a taxi to a little dock. This was where our catamaran picked us up and took us to the island. The ride was quite bumpy (understatement of the year, my sister ended up having to wear her goggles!), so it was a good job we'd taken travel sickness pills, haha! The staff on the boat were really helpful, spoke good English and it was obvious that they genuinely wanted you to enjoy your trip.

When we got to the island, we were taken straight to a meeting point where we were quickly split up into groups and taken to the dolphin enclosure. The 'enclosure' was a large area of sea fenced off in a square shape. From what we saw and were told, the dolphins were very well looked after. They were regularly let out of the enclosure into the open so that they would stay happy and healthy. Anyway, we got into the water and we were told to hold onto the fence as the sea was quite rough on that particular day. The dolphins we had were called Merlin and Yokonda, don't ask me to tell them apart though! Our instructor (who was lovely by the way, thankyou Yvonne) explained what we were going to do with the dolphins and told us a bit about them. Then it was time to start!

We did something called the 'foot push', which is basically swimming out into the open, rough sea while the instructor tells you where to swim (you completely lose your sense of direction, haha!). Once you're positioned, the dolphins swim over to you at an insanely fast speed (apparently about 30mph) and push you up and out of the water, while moving forward very quickly, using their noses on the bottom of your feet! It.was.amazing.

However, although we did have life jackets and I do love swimming, I never go deeper than my knees in the sea and I was quite scared as I was the first one to do it and had no idea what to expect!

After everyone had done that (with and without a bodyboard), we did some other tricks like kissing, jumping, dancing and stroking, it was so fun! Dolphins are surprisingly soft and slightly squishy (hate that word), not hard like I expected them to be.

When we had finished with the dolphins, we went to an amazing place called Garrafon Marine Reef Park, which was basically a paradise of turquoise sea, white sand and an amazing zipwire (the tall towers you can see in some photos were the parts where you stopped, it went in a triangle). I won't go into detail here because we did pretty much nothing other than messing around! 

I think that's everything I wanted to say, but in short, it was an amazing day and a once in a lifetime experience that I'll never forget (cheesy much). I'm doing a couple more posts about Mexico then I might actually start to post about normal things, the last few months since I started my blog have been very busy!

Lucy x

 

Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016

Hi!

It is now 2016 (didn't know that at all did you?), and I'm back from my holiday/ vacation/ whatever, so I thought I'd post about some New Year's related things. Actually, I'm on a plane coming back from my holiday (shoutout to everyone from New Haven, America, we're currently flying over youuuu), I have a lot of exciting posts planned & coming so look out for those! I thought I'd mention that when midnight struck in the UK, I was 39,000 feet in the air, flying at 552mph over South Carolina, which is pretty cool if you ask me (not that I know anything about what's cool and what's not, haha)!

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Resolutions:

First things first, let's talk about New Year's Resolutions. I prefer to call them goals, resolutions are more like promises and I can't promise anything about a couple of mine (you'll see why)! I only have a few, and they are:

Eat more healthily-I am the worst at this. Five portions of fruit and veg a day? I'm lucky if I get 1 a week! I'm not keen on veg at all, so I'm going to try to incorporate fruit into my diet (sounds posh haha) at breakfast and for snacks. I think I might try fruit infused water for school too, who knows how that'll go!

Grow my blog- I'm aiming for 50 Google + followers by the end of the year. The buttons at the bottom of the post or home page if you wanna help ;)

Improve my trampolining- if you didn't know, I do trampolining! Again, I'm no professional at this, but here's a list of some of the stuff I can do(most of which won't make any sense if you don't know about trampolining)- pullovers, turnovers, tuck-backs, tuck-fronts, pike-fronts, cradle etc. I don't really know how much more I want to be able to do to be honest!

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2015 random favourites:

Last year, I changed a lot and I thought I'd share a couple of my favourites from more recently.

Film wise, I love Hit The Road by Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee. It is genuinely so funny! I do feel like you would need to know a bit about them before you watch the film (links at the bottom for everything mentioned in this section). I won't give any spoilers here, but definitely check it out!

Music. Where do I start. Music is my life, I literally don't think I would be alive if it wasn't for music, haha! Here's my top 10 songs of 2015 (again, links below), some were out before last year, but oh well...

#1. Hide Away- Daya. I have no words for how good this is. I'm listening to it on repeat right now!

#2. TRNDSTTR- Black Coast (Lucian Remix). Love it.

#3. Love yourself- Justin Bieber. I mean, it's Justin Bieber. Yes.

#4. Sorry- Justin Bieber

#5. Riptide- Vance Joy

#6. Good For You- Selena Gomez

#7. Lay It All On Me- Rudimental

#8. Stronger- Clean Bandit. Not even that good a song, it's just the story behind it which is hilarious! ( Livvy, James, George or Hazza- remember? Anyone else reading this- never pick up a 1.5 litre bottle of olive oil and pretend it's a microphone while making a music video with your two insane friends- it's all on camera if you want proof that it didn't end well! Bracket chats over :P) 

#9. Wings (acoustic version)-Birdy

#10. Sugar- Maroon 5. Ruby- your French accent is great, but you might offend someone, haha!

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I have been loving Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil. Not gonna ramble for no reason, just WATCH THEM. NOW.

WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS, I SAID WATCH THEM! LINK BELOW YAY

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Anyway, that's all for today! Like I said, there is a lot of exciting posts coming up, so keep an eye out for those! I hope you all have an amazing 2016 and I'll see you soon!

Lucy xx

P.S- I want to see who reads my blog, so if you're reading this, DM me 3 blue emojis on Instagram! It's not a name and shame thing (I'm not telling anyone), I just want to know haha, link for my Instagram belowwww :).

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Love Yourself

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London - Winter Wonderland & more!

Hi!

So at the weekend I went down to London. We went to the Winter

 Wonderland at Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, The London Eye, Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament, Leicester Square, Harrods  and Westminster Abbey.

Winter Wonderland is a massive Christmas market (the theme is traditional Germany) with an even bigger fairground. There are all sorts of stalls selling mulled wine, hot chocolate, candyfloss, Christmas decorations, sweets, gifts and so much more. The fairground is home to some of the scariest rides I've ever seen! It's all brightly lit and there are several bands playing and campfires dotted around, so the atmosphere is amazing. Also, the whole place smells of pretzels and chocolate!

The London Eye was also amazing, the view was great. I've been on before (a couple of years ago) and since then they've added a couple of new features, one of which is two tablets per pod/car/thing. The tablets have a program on which shows an image of the view as you see it from the top of the eye, and you can click on a building to find out lots of information about it (e.g. its name, how tall it is, when it was built etc.) Also, we were all looking for the Gherkin (which is a building if you didn't already know), and a little girl who was obviously from a different country started saying, "Where's the pickled cucumber?" It was so funny!

I'm not going to go into detail about the other things, but we had the best time. I also want to mention that there might not be another blog post until next year. I'll try and get one up, but if I don't, have an amazing Christmas and a happy new year! I do have a lot of posts planned though, so there won't be a lack of posts when I come back anyway.

See you soon,

Lucy x

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