Having brilliant times

About two weekends ago my boyfriend wanted to create special memories with his Dad before emigration so they went to Barcelona to see Barcelona play at the Nou Camp. He's just read this and said "or did I want an excuse to see Barcelona?"

I was going to Wales to my family home as I hadn't been since October. We were having a Dad, daughter, son special day too. (Mumsy had already plans so kept herself out of it) I gave a couple of suggestions - going for a meal, going for a pub crawl in Aberystwyth, etc. My brother texted me to say these suggesions weren't selected, Dad had an idea and we HAD to go along with it.

OOhhh.. I couldn't think what it would be.
Made it to Wales on Friday evening, had a chilled evening and indian food and some wine. The wine was El Campo Viejo red that was a £5 at Asda that is a possible favourite of my undeveloped wine palate. Lu-ush!

The big reveal came after dinner - we were going to zipworld! To have a family zipline day! Take a look here

We had nice cake and coffee in Blaenau Ffestiniog before. I had a ten pound note in my hand ready to pay but lo! £15 for 3 coffees and 3 generous slices of cake! Reading this back to myself has reinforced how tight I am. The cake was massive. I take it back Ffestiniog.

The zipline was great, the staff are Gogs (North Walian) and are very friendly and chatty as are the rest of us from our fine nation. We did the titan zipline which was great and I wasn't overwhelmed with fear by the height aspect which did worry me in the journey on the way up.

You go fast and you have fun and feel the wind in your face. Its a rush.

We had a quality tour of North and mid-Wales after leaving zipworld: driving across to Harlech stopping to get a shot of Portmeirion from across the river; down the coast to Barmouth then back up the estuary in land to Dolgellau. such beautiful parts of the world and really free of people. Its all about Mother Nature.

We ate at Cross Foxes pub. They serve Erdinger! Winner! We had some delicious pub food with real chips.

The homeward bound. A wonderful day with family and in the great outdoors.

Nice recap for my memory bank

CHAO Sunny x

living at the in laws + the lurgy

Hello,

I'm so behind. Life has been full-on for the past 2 weeks.
We moved out of our flat finally. I only shed a little tear. At the end of the day it was rented and it wasn't like we knew any of our neighbours (is that always the way when you life in a flat?). Our 2 separate sets of neighbours who we had known had moved out. Booo.

We have done a teeny weeny bit of clearing out of stuff since: probably another binbags worth. That is it.

I've been working the Linked In. A resource that I have overlooked in the past. I have applied for my first Down Under post and already been rejected for it. I thought that was quite professional by the agency. It may have been an automated message, but I was expecting the "due to the high number of applications, you will only be contacted if successful" that I knew in the past, so was pleasantly surprised.

I am having a feeling of being overwhelmed by it today. We still have loads to do and about a month to go. I know its going to creep up on us and I'll just be throwing 50% in a bin bag and 50% in a case and crossing my fingers.

I'm ill because I work with about 7 people who have chest infections and the usual coughs and colds and share air with them for 8 hours a day last week. Then I went to a gig on Thursday and was in close confines with sweaty people and got dehydrated. The cherry on the cake was partying it up at my work Christmas do - having a mojito or 3 and having shouty conversations to be heard over the tunes. Saturday morning was all about the fun of a sore throat and cough and headache combo. Write-off weekend. Sob.

Lets jingle while we mingle.

Sunny x