Lanzarote

Hellooo!

Since I got back from Lanzarote I've been ridiculously busy - going for afternoon tea, going to Glasgow to see The Killers and finally starting some research for my dissertation. More about all of that later, but apologies for the lack of posts last week! 

I'll not bore you with every detail of my holiday, but I'd never been to Lanzarote before and I had a lovely time. It was a bit windy for my liking though (which I've apparently told everyone) so I'm not sure whether I'd go back in the future. Anyway, here are a few of my favourite photos. There are more here than I originally intended, but I couldn't choose between them to narrow it down!

Santa Rosa Apartments

Santa Rosa Apartments

Slush Puppie by the pool

Sex on the Beach
(and my Gran's fish and chips!)

Teguise market

Teguise market

Teguise market

Sunbathing

I'm now in love with coconut ice cream!

Me and my sister may or may not have watched an episode of Castle in Spanish for the craic

Me and Hannah

Hope everyone is having a lovely bank holiday!



York #2


Over the last few weeks I've spent quite a bit of time in York. After nipping down to see my housemates for a few days in July, it was only a week before I was on the train and headed back to York with my boyfriend. 
Clockwise from top left:
1. Our Nandos order
2.  I don't think it was intended, but this picture definitely looks like an 'oh God, shes's taking photos AGAIN' pose.
3. Museum Gardens
4. Ruins of St. Mary's Abbey 

After spending Wednesday night eating lasagna and watching The Middle, on Thursday we headed into town to have a look around. As always, we headed to Nandos. I was so glad because I hadn't been since Easter and I'd been looking forward to it since we started planning our mini trip. We got our usual - a Medium Wing Platter with Spicy Rice and Chips with Peri-Peri Salt - and it was lovely. By the end of the day Sam found had some new trainers in Schuh, a jacket in H+M and some Nike socks from TK Maxx, and we both bought some fudge from one of the sweet shops next to the Minster.

1. Museum Gardens
2. The Yorkshire Museum 
3. Me and Sam
4. Roman find 

The next day we thought about going to somewhere like Scarborough or Whitby but it would have meant a couple of hours on a bus, which wouldn't have been fun in the 26 degree heat. So, we decided to make the most of being in York instead. I had planned to renew my York Card so I could get into the museums for free, but as the city library was closed that was out of the equation. 
 First we decided to head to the Yorkshire Museum, a place we'd never been. There were some really cool things in the collection and I took about a million photos. Well maybe not THAT many, but I only chose some of my favourites to include here because there were far too many to use them all.  

1.The York Helmet
2. The Middleham Jewel
3. OOTD
4. Roman child

Dinosaur Scales!
I'm the same weight as a heavy Hypsilophodon and Sam's the same as a Dromiceiomimus. No? Me neither. Pretty cool though.

1. National Railway Museum 
2. Pushing a luggage trolley
3 & 4. The Dining Car Restaurant. 

After getting an ice cream in Museum Gardens (double scoop mint choc chip in a waffle cone x2), we headed to the National Railway Museum. I had visited the museum before, in my first few weeks in York, but Sam had never been. I was most impressed by the carriage they had that was used by Queen Victoria. I meant to go back to get a photo later on but I forgot.  I also liked the addition of the Dining Car Restaurant - we didn't eat there as we'd just had ice cream, but if I go again I'd definitely give it a try because it looked really cool. Apparently they do afternoon tea too for £11.95 a head, which I might have to mention to my housemate at some point when we're both back in York.

1. Drinks at the Dining Car Restaurant
2. Ticket for the mini-train
3. On the mini train
4. We found a Metro map!

We also decided it'd be fun to have a go on the mini train. It is probably aimed at kids, but it was only £1. I don't think we got judged too much! As well as seeing some famous trains - like the Mallard and the Flying Scotsman - we also spotted a map of the Metro line from 1996. I probably got far too excited when we saw it, and it was quite weird seeing it without the Sunderland extension! 
After having a look around the gift shop we bought tickets for the Road Train, which travels between the museum and the Minster every half hour for £2, and headed home.

 Oh! Sam got me this ridiculously cute Flying Scotsman teddy as a souvenir of our visit. He's called Wilbur. Isn't he adorable?

It was a lovely few days and I'm pretty sure we've now got plans to visit some of the other museums in York next time we're there.


The Color Run Sunderland

At the beginning of this month you may have read the post I wrote about The Color Run and the charity that I was hoping to raise money for, Music in the Minster. Well, on the 20th of July the day finally arrived and I set off with my sister, Mam and Aunty to the Stadium of Light for my first 5K. 


At the start line. Had to make a few alterations to my t-shirt because it would have annoyed me otherwise!

When we signed up for the run in February I decided to make it my goal to be able to run the whole 5K. I'd started running regularly in September, so I wasn't quite starting from scratch, but 5K was definitely further than I was used to. Everything was going really well until I got a bit of an injury in May which meant that I couldn't run properly for about a month.  Nevertheless, I did manage to run nearly the whole way (apart from when we got stuck behind crowds of people who were walking - The Color Run isn't a timed race so absolutely anyone can do it) and, along with my sister, we managed it in 37 minutes. I was so proud of myself and the run itself was so much fun!

Colourful nails! 

As I mentioned before, The Color Run took place at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland. Along the route, each kilometre had its own colour station (pink, blue, orange and yellow), where runners were doused in as much or as little paint as they wanted. Me and Hannah decided that we wanted to be covered in as much paint as we could be - which meant that by the time we got to the finish line we were pretty colourful! 

Before and during - selfies after each colour station and the finish line


And after!


Colour packet by Dulux and laces and sweets provided by New Balance 


New Balance Laces


Love it!

Finish Line Festival

Once we finished the route we hung around for the Finish Line Festival, where runners get to take part in a colour throw with the colour packets handed out at the finish line. Makes a pretty good photo, doesn't it?

The Color Run was an amazing experience, and so far we've raised over £200 online and in person. I really hope it comes back to Sunderland next year so I can do it all over again! 



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