I turned the big 3-0 last November and made it my mission to start my own blog by the time I was 31. 3 months have passed and I still hadn't got around to it until now. It's always difficult (I think) when starting one of these to know where to actually start so I thought I would begin a bit of a life introduction and then maybe end with what I would like from this blog.
So, I am not going to bore you with information from the past 30 years as I am sure that would turn into a novel and you would switch off. Instead, I am going to start on my 30th birthday - November 2nd.
My birthday was amazing... the best day of my life in fact. My boyfriend at the time and I decided to go on a mini-break to NYC - The Big Apple! I had saved a fair amount of £££ in preparation to this so as you can expect, I was buzzing! We got to the airport uber early and jumped on the plane. 6 hours later hearing nothing but my own excitement the whole journey we landed.
After a freshen up break at our hotel we headed for central park which was a 20 minute walk away. It was spectacular. The weather was so much nicer than I imagined - blue skies and all that. We walked around for a bit, grabbed a bottle of water and decided to sit down on a rock. I was snapping pictures of trees and horse drawn carriages, squirrels and rocks paying absolutely no attention to what was going on. I turned around to speak to Dan and to my surprise he was on one knee holding out a ring!! It was the most amazing and special moment of my life and i'll never forget it! Needless to say, I said yes! :)
As you can imagine, that was the highlight! The rest of the week was spent eating cheesecakes, cheeseburgers and lots of other yummyness! We did the normal touristy sight-seeing going to the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Times Square, taking a broadway show in - Lion King which was amazing by the way! And then the 2nd highlight for me, watching a New York Rangers game at Madison Square Gardens... Dan and I are avid hockey fans!
So now, I have a wedding to plan! Which is both exciting and terrifying all at the same time.
That pretty much sums up the end of 2015. Everything else that happened doesn't seem to compare with my trip to New York and I'm not sure it ever will. New York has become my favorite place in the world which I hope to return to in the near future.
Now on to 2016...
Apart from trying to organise and plan a wedding (we have set the date of 20th May 2017!!) the only things to have happened are booking our flights to the west coast in September. We are going to Los Angeles, Vegas and San Francisco! I'm sure i'll update you on that shortly :) And also, a trip to Finland with work. I am so excited about visiting Finland. My travels so far have never taken me there! I was going to try and catch an Ice Hockey game, unfortunately, there are none the week I'm going :( So I am a little bit disappointed although I have heard that karaoke is rather big in Finland so I'm hoping to have a good ol' sing song! :)
That's life in my 30's in a nutshell so far! Pretty darned good if I don't say so myself.
So what can you expect from this blog?
I don't want to theme it as such and will just write whatever comes to mind.
- I tend to go to the cinema a lot
- I buy way too much make-up
- I love to travel
- I love to shop
- I love to read
- I love to listen to music
- I love to take photos
- I love to rant and ramble!
So expect lots of reviews, life updates and ramblings!!
Hopefully at least 1 person reads this and enjoys it!
With that in mind, if you are the lucky 1 mentioned above, I hope you enjoy reading this. Leave me as many comments as you wish and I'll reply.
Lots of love!
Ella x
