Valentines Day 2014

Hello everyone - I hope you are all doing well! Today I thought I would do a lifestyle post since I made a promise to myself that this year I am going to take more pictures, keep a better record of days out throughout the year and write more lifestyle posts!

Albert Dock - Liverpool

So this particular post is about valentines day 2014. Me and the OH decided to have a meal out on the 15th since we were both in work on the 14th. In reality our valentines night was spent ordering a take out, Chinese to be exact - yum, whilst watching Coronation Street and me trying to coax the OH in to giving me a back rub because 'it's valentines day'. 

You will have to forgive me for having my hair scrapped back and being hidden in a snood but it was so cold and windy that I had to tie my hair back till we got there and keep warm in my snood! We decided we would go to a place called Gusto in Liverpool which you can take a look at here. We had our first year anniversary meal here so we decided we would stick to what we know and go again!

Anyone who has a busy lifestyle knows how nice it is to have a sit down meal and a catch up. Our Valentines meal was no exception. I had a few glasses of wine and the OH had a few pints - we really enjoyed having a night to treat ourselves! 

Now on to the food! For a starter I had meatballs. They were really lovely and filling and the sauce was so nice! 

Yes I had pizza - I'm a girl who is not scared to eat when she's hungry even at restaurants! This was an american style pizza and it was really lovely. The pepperoni is a tad spicy which gives it a nice little kick!

As for gifts the OH did amazing. He got a personalized card with pictures of us all over it. He also got flowers sent to my house - red roses which are my favourite as well as a new watch and hand bag since I always ask for practical presents and he remembered that I wanted these!

How did you spend valentines day? Even if it was with Ben & Jerry I want to know!

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Anniversary Gift Ideas - One Year Anniversary

So today marks my one year anniversary for me and my boyfriend. The last weekend we have been celebrating our year anniversary by having a meal and a night out and then a chilled day in over the weekend. I thought I would make a quick little post to let you guys know what I put together for our anniversary!

I decided I would pick up a Kilner Jar and I would put in all his favourite sweets and chocolate to munch on. I also added little love hearts with different notes in to make him smile as he made his way through the sweets!

To finish it off I added a note saying all the reasons why I loved him and wishing him a happy anniversary! The whole idea is a great little treat for anyone. The jar is pretty affordable, I got mine for £3 and it is a really large size! You can also slowly fill up your jar of sweets/treats as and when you get ideas!

I also bought him a bar of his favourite chocolate bar and a cuddly toy! 

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Lifestyle post: Day out at Chester Zoo

Hello guys! Hope you are all well! So this last Saturday my boyfriend decided we should have a little impromptu day out to Chester Zoo! Today is our 9 month anniversary (cheesy I know) so we thought that we would spend the whole weekend together since we both have work/college/volunteering we have during the week! So we decided we would commute up relativity early, we were both knackered! We spent the commute up doing word searches... yes we are 50. We got there around 10am so it was less that two hours travel and to be honest we didn't really notice how long it took! 

This is us (forgive my messy hair and make-up!) sat in a lovely garden in the center of the park midway through the day. We were quite blessed that it wasn't too warm or cold but the sun stayed out all day! We stayed till around 3pm so we had a good 5 hour walk round the park! 

I definitely recommend Chester Zoo particularly for those that have kids. Both myself and my boyfriend Gareth agreed that its a nice thing to do nice its not the norm and you can easily just walk around all day watching the animals which we did!

It took us around 3 hours to walk through everything as there is a lot to see. Myself and Gareth both thought that if we had a kid like a lot of the other couples did their you could easily stay there all day as there are many things for kids to do such as face painting and play areas. So if you're a couple with kids looking for a plan or even a young couple it is a good all rounder!

There are a bunch of different animals as well as fishes and bugs and even a bat house which I loved. There are even talks that happen at various areas in the park which we caught a few of walking round! 

There are plenty of place to stop and eat with plenty of shops however me and the other half had brought some butties and snack stuff to stop and eat at this lovely garden area in the center which was nice! 

The great thing is there are so many places to stop and relax that you can walk around all day! We stuck to just keep going left right from the beginning and we managed to see everything in the zoo! There is also a monorail system that we decided against and just walked through buts its a great idea to see an above view of the zoo.

Above you can see a picture of one of our favorite animals, bush dogs! They basically spend all day following each other in a circle! They are so cute and we were in stitches singing The Great Escape song and the rocky theme tune whilst they ran around!

So that was pretty much it for Saturday! For Sunday we spent a nice day in chilled! Pretty much watching boring day time TV and playing Cluedo whilst Gareth tried to teach me other board games like checkers and such! I can't stress how much we act like 50 year olds! It was nice to have some down time before term starts again!

So I hope you guys liked this lifestyle post! Have you been to Chester Zoo? What do you like to do with your other half? Let me know in the comments!

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