16th Birthday!

Bonjour!

So as I mentioned in my last post, I celebrated my 16th birthday when I went to America with my family and it was the best birthday I've ever had! My birthday was the 1st of August and on the 31st of July, I carried out my yearly tradition of staying up till at least midnight. My friend in America, Hannah, had been to see Justin Bieber that night and ran into my room and pounced on me to wish me happy birthday at 12.30 when she got home... that was the first of many lovely moments.

In the morning, I woke early and facetimed my two best friends Ellen and Laura (HEY GUYS) and had a good chat and laugh with them. When I got up, happy birthday was sung to me and we all had breakfast together- waffles, eggs and bacon. MMM! I then opened some cards and presents off my family (putting up a post after this one about a few things I got). We then all spent most of the early afternoon getting ready to go into New York which was entertaining enough in itself (3 teenage girls trying to decide what to wear etc).

Shirley Temples at the view with Reagan and Hannah.

 All of us then hopped into the cars and drove into NYC, parked up and walked to 'The View'; a restaurant near times square, 48 floors up, that slowly revolves, giving you a 360 degree view of the city. The food was amazing, the waiter we had was hilarious and asked if he could be adopted by us and the experience was so worth it. I'd definitely recommend it, 100%. 

Once we'd finished eating (and had gained about two inches around our bellies), it was absolutely pouring it down with rain outside. Literally, POURING! We were off to the theatre to see Wicked (my favourite ever musical) which was just round the corner. But, one of our friends (Judy) had just had foot surgery and was being pushed in a wheelchair by David (another friend... I HAVE FRIENDS). It was quite entertaining actually looking back, except for the fact I was in sandals!

We soon arrived at the theatre and got to our seats. The show began and I was transported into this heavenly musical land that felt like a dream *sighs*. If you read my first bucket list post, you'll know how I feel about musical theatre and wicked especially. If not, it's basically my dream to be Elphaba (the wicked witch) in wicked. I cried.. quite a lot.

If that wasn't enough, everyone agreed that we could go to the stage door atferwards and look what flippin well happened....

 

Fiyero- Derek Klena

Glinda (the good witch)- Katie Rose Clarke

Elphaba- Lindsay Mendez. Such a talented woman.

 Finally we had a wander through times square and before I knew it, it was no longer my birthday.

We then drove back to the house and ate ice cream cake (which was INCREDIBLE). I then curled up on the sofa with Hannah and Reagan watching something American- and quite forgettable to be quite honest- until 3 in the morning, at which point I strolled off to bed for my last night's sleep in the US of A. 

So that was my birthday! Quite a long winded story but I wanted to blog about it as it was such an amazing and lovely day with people who I love ever so much! We all love birthdays don't we?! (I hope you do!)

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x

Returned from the USA!

I HAVE RETURNED! I'm back in good old England, which after being to America seems ever so dull I have to say. But hey ho, life goes on. I suppose holidays wouldn't be holidays if you didn't come back to reality afterwards. I've got a few posts planned that I'm starting to write tonight and I thought to start off with, I'd share a few photos with you of some things I did and the people I saw while I was there. 

Sunset in Cape Cod

With the beautiful Hannah (middle) and Reagan (right)

The Gang! L-R: Sam, Mum, Dad, Me, Reagan, David, Hannah, Judy, Ben and Matt.

View from the Empire State

This diner was like a dream place for me! The waiters and waitresses are people trying to get onto Broadway and they sing while they wait on the customers- impressive or what!!

The 9/11 memorial

Last night (my birthday) in Times Square

There were so many pictures I wanted to include but tried to limit it as much as I could. I know I'm going to be going to back to America in the future because I love it so much but I really do miss it. Everyone there is so much kinder in general. People seriously just chat to you whenever or wherever. Most of all, I'm going to miss my friends out there- Hannah, Reagan, Matt, David and Judy. 

We celebrated my 16th birthday out there as well and it was the best birthday I've ever had (so far!). I might do a separate post showing a few pictures from my birthday and maybe show a couple of things that I was kindly given.

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x

Last Night- Prom

Yet again, I have to apologise for not keeping up with my daily schedule that I was aiming to maintain. Over the past few days I've been rather busy and was having a good think about what other things I want to blog about. I've made myself a long list of ideas and feel a lot more prepared to put the effort in now!

So last night, we had our year 11 prom. It was a great night full of happiness, dancing, eating, drinking, chatter and LOTS of photos, some of which I thought I'd share with you now.

With my best friend and my boyfriend.

Left to right- Tara, me, Laura, Ellen

Laura is one of my favourite gingers

My beautiful friends before the prom at a friend's house

I'll be getting back into the proper swing of things tomorrow now that I have a plan of what I'm going to be writing about.

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x

Sunny Picnic with Friends

Today, I thought I'd let you into my life a little bit more and show you what I got up to a couple of days ago. Yesterday, it was my friend Lucy's 16th birthday and to celebrate, our group of friends went out for a really sweet little picnic in the park on Tuesday (the 25th). The sun decided to make and appearance which made the day even more lovely. It was also a bit gusty so excuse our hair in some of the photos! So here's a few pictures of our afternoon out...

Lucy (left), Ellie (middle) and me pulling the most attractive face of us all.

The three of us in this picture are constantly having long discussions about all things youtube and blogging. We're quite frankly obsessed with people like Zoe and Louise. 

With my friend Caitlin. Pose alert.

Lucy (left), Katie (right) and a fraction of the food that we all brought... who needs diets.

With my beautiful ginge Laura. I think my expression shows how I feel about this girl.

With the birthday ginge. We were rather excited it seems!

From left to right: Tara, Caitlin and Millie.

I shall leave you with the rather entertaining image of me having a little dance. I'm pretty sure this was when a few of us started singing 'Let's go fly a kite' from Mary Poppins... we were just high on life.

Let's all pray we all get some more sunny days over the summer!

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x

OOTE- Blue, Black and Converse

Tara (left), me (middle), Ellen (right)

Black crop top- Primark

Blue midi skirt- New Look

Necklace- New Look (can't find this on the website, but it's in a recent haul)

Converse- Amazon

Last night I went to an 'end of exams' party at my boyfriend's house and we all had a brilliant time. I talked to people I hadn't even met before, hugged LOTS of people, did a lot of very loud singing and took plenty of photos (before my phone sadly died). 

I found this outfit was perfect for a party in the garden as I didn't look really casual but the converse meant that I could still walk around in the garden without stumbling all the time like I would in heels!

I still feel half asleep really as I got in quite late last night, hence why this is a quick post today

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x

America- 1 month to go!!

I'm very exciteable today because it's one month until I go on holiday. This year is a very special holiday for our family as we're going to America to see our friends in New Jersey. We're staying with them for a couple of days, all going to Cape Cod for a week and then coming back to New Jersey and visiting New York. I'm also going to be in New York on my 16th birthday as well so it'll be a very different birthday!

Most importantly, I'm going to be able to spend some time with my friend, Hannah. Our parents met around 19 years ago and when Hannah's parents moved to America with her and her brother, Matt, it obviously meant that we didn't see each other as often anymore, which makes seeing Hannah so much more special as we've always got along.

Hannah (left) and me (right) in New York, 2005

We always used to put on 'shows' for our families

 

Hannah's family has been through a lot recently so I know it's going to be great to be able to spend some quality time with her, especially as I haven't actually seen her for 3 years. 

I'm really looking forward to spending hours lounging on the beach, eating good food, having warm weather, doing some damage in the New York shops and seeing Wicked on my birthday (my favourite musical).

Aren't we cool in our matching t-shirts

If you're going on holiday this summer, I hope you have a brilliant time!

Thank you for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x