A very long weekend...

So this weekend was probably one of my favourites, however I was very spoilt and I am truly grateful for one of the best surprises I have ever been given. This will be a long post but stick with it I took some really awesome pictures. ENJOY!

We got to see some gorgeous monkeys and apes, especially in the island section. Made me laugh a lot seeing the primates putting sacks on there heads I even got to see a baby Orangutan and it's parent pretending to be a rock wrapping a sack around itself and being very still haha.

My personal favourite part of the zoo was by far the elephants as they had the cutest little 7 month old female elephant called Nangita. Along with a male Bull elephant called Aung Bo he was stunning with beautiful tusks. I got the cutest video of baby Nangita trying to go down to the pool but she was frightened she's super cute!!

Above is a mismatch of pictures including the penguin enclosure and the cheetahs cuddling, the cheetah enclosure is really irritating as there are high fences so if they aren't in the big enclosure they are in the tiny area to the side where you have to peak through the fence to see them but I did get this gorgeous picture.

i was lucky enough to have a very handsome tour guide (wink wink hey Nathan) to plan the whole day and which animals we were going to see. I am a lucky lady!

Plus we got a beautiful colour co-ordinated map which i have kept to hopefully frame as a family piece for mine and Nathan's future home.

OFCOURSE me and Nathan visited the lions and how beautiful is this big boy!

We were looking enough to see the Sun Bears this big guy was just chilling in a tree but decided to show us his climbing skills and got down just to climb back up again.

Z is for Zebras or ZOE!!

Unfortunately it did rain so me and my lovely Nathan had to take shelter for a few minutes till it calmed down. The heavens really did open but we still wanted ice cream.

I love seeing capybara's for some reason maybe it's the thought off a giant guinea pig but they are surely too cute. I'd have one over a dog any day, I love how they all formed in a line though they must have knew i wanted a picture.

Finally, got to see the rhinos as they were eating when I seen them near the elephants. Sadly, just after this they ran inside due the rain and pooped! They remind me of big dinosaurs with there armour like bodies.

Obviously I picked up a gift for me and Nathan. A little elephant for my keys and a cheetah/lion for his to remind us of each other and an amazing day!

I was super grateful of this surprise date as I really needed it to cheer myself up as depression and anxiety has took a lot out of my recently. I could not thank Nathan enough he is honestly a star and always trying to make me smile! Thank you!!!

On Monday morning me and Nathan took his sister and her boyfriend to the Pleasure Beach in Blackpool and we had a nice day in Blackpool. After a little shop around in the Disney Store and getting a tasty lunch we spent around 5 hours in Coral Island on the 2p machines winning our new baby Eddie the pirate teddy and a unicorn. Those machines I swear are super addictive!!

We had the loveliest weekend and finishing it off with a meal was the perfect way to do this!

Obviously we finished off the day with easter eggs and a very sleepy fiance!

Well that is all my lovelies! Seriously hope you enjoyed as I love looking through all the pictures!

All my love, 

My Valentine's day....

So I had a very lovely day with Nathan my very handsome fiance on Valentine's day, about 2 weeks before I decided I really wanted to go to the zoo and Nathan suggest Blackpool Zoo for a Valentine's day activity so I was super happy! I decided for my blog I would document mainly the Zoo trip because it was amazing and I got to see my favourite ever mammal the ELEPHANT! So here goes...

We decided that it was probably a good idea the night before if I stayed over at his as we had to leave at 9 as the zoo opened at 10, and we wanted to pick up breakfast on the way there. So after our lovely sausage and egg mcmuffin from Mcdonald's we made it to the zoo dead on 10. I was like seriously amazed when I seen a turtle the size of like a car it was huge and I still think it might have been fake it was that big! 

So in the Small Primates section we seen some beautiful animals, I'm not 100% on the name of this specific one but we found it funny how it blocked the door so it could sunbathe haha.

Next we went onto seeing the big cats, there were 3 beautiful Amur tigers one was a female called Alyona and her mate Zambar with one of their 2 babies Barney. When we first got to the enclosure they were asleep and the top image shows how the two who I'm hoping are the two mates are 'arm in arm' haha. They were honestly stunning and Alyona was used in the live feeding talk they are truly fascinating and beautiful creatures.

So next to the tigers in a smaller enclosure were the meerkats which I loved, if you've seen the video on facebook of the meerkat stood up shouting 'Allen Allen' then you can see why I thought this was funny but they were truly adorable.

Onto the truly most beautiful cats I have ever seen were the lions. There were two lions in this part the grown male lion called Wallace (brilliant name) and his recently born cub in 2015 called Khari. Khari was so sweet and wanted to constantly play with his dad. It amazed me seeing how big he was and how fast he had grown in a year..

Next we visited the Bornean Orangutans I'm not too sure which one is the one in the picture but they consisted of 4 Orangutans I'm thinking the one in the pictures was Ramon the only male. There was also Vicky the oldest female and her two daughters Cherie and Summer. They were so amazing to see how much they relate to humans even if their a little hairer haha

Blackpool zoo had a group of female giraffes which were so interesting to look at. You never really realise how big they are until you see them up close but there coats were so beautiful and I had a sneaky stroke of one when it stuck it's head up to the fence but the nice keeper said it was okay haha.

From a young age I loved zebras purely because they began with Z. These were Hartmanns zebra's and they seemed to have a baby in the enclosure. I don't know what it was but looking at the coats made me so interesting because i love the patterns and how shiny and well kept the keepers keep them.

We then visited the Wallaby's along with the red kangaroo's. There was one that you can see on the bottom right picture on the far right that kept bouncing around and into the facing field. It literally just bounced past me and Nathan. I don't think it's clear but the one in the left picture the greyish one on the right had a baby joey in her pouch that kept popping its head out I was completely in love me and Nathan must have watched them for around 15 minutes.

Onto Nathan's favourites! The Iberian Wolves, I was utterly excited about these as we stood there discussing which was the alpha,omega and beta (complete Teen Wolf nerds) but they were so beautiful! There was one however that was wondering around near the bottom of the enclosure and it made me really sad. The enclosure was named Wolf Ridge and was on the outskirt of the zoo with a high ramp to see down on the wolves, these wolves are infact led by the alpha male and the female. Then leading onto the second in command the beta wolf and the lowest ranking the omega wolf.

The water based animals at the zoo were amazing, especially the penguins. These were Magellanic penguins originating from South America  specifically Chile, Argentina and the Falkland Isles. As you can see from the pictures there was one cheeky little penguin that wanted to get a closer look at us and liked to do a little drying off dance which consisted of a little wiggle. I loved these they are so graceful and cute.

We then visited the sea lions at around 2:00 and watched there display. There were 10 sea lions but only 3 were used for the show, these were a 3 year old names Ruby a 9 year old called Anya and her sister the oldest Gina who was 13. They were so well trained and funny and Ruby was rather cheeky she wanted to do everything her mum and auntie were doing so she felt the need to come over her rock every time the other two did.

Got a lovely panorama aswell of the pool and a cheeky selfie with my handsome soldier.

AND FINALLY! My personal favourite the Asian elephant! The one we met was called Kate and she was the only elephant they had as the others were from a circus which sadly died. However Kate was rather cute and loved to see her picking up food with her trunk. I can't wait to see the elephant enclosure when they do it up and bring in more elephants which is what the speaker Amanda said was going to happen.

AND of course we took some selfies!

Once we finished at the zoo we went back to Nathan's to get ready for our meal as we decided to go to our favourite restaurant Chopsticks. They decided to do a special candle lit night which was lovely especially for couples.

AND FINALLY! Me and Nathan did get each other a few things for Valentine's I was totally shocked by what he got me as it was utterly perfect and I spent weeks on his gift a customised Star Wars box with matching Star gifts and his favourite food and drink!

Mine from Nathan including an Fujifilm Instax mini 8 polaroid camera,flowers to match my room and a bag full of bath bombs including unicorn horn, Avobath and Rose bath bomb! Not to mention a very special card my first saying Fiance along with two bears one from the Zoo as my favourite animal the Elephant who I have name Oscar and two bears that are now called Barney and Anna! 

Nathan's consisted of Koppaberg 4 pack in Starwberry and Lime, his favourite food Sensations crisp and Haribo Strawberry laces. A stormtrooper pillow, Jean Paul Gautier aftershave and a thermal changing Kylo Ren Mug. 

I honestly had the most amazing day as our first Valentine's as an engaged couple, and cannot wait for our get away for our year and half anniversary! Anyway I know this was a little rushed but I hope you enjoyed my lovelies! 

All my love,