17th Birthday!

Hello everyone!

I'm so sorry it has taken me over a week to upload this.... I started writing this on the evening of the 29th, but was so shattered I decided to postpone.. only I didn't manage to get back until now. Instead of re-writing everything and putting the day in the past, I thought I would just leave what I wrote on my birthday, but just add this foreword. Sorry for such a long delay...

29th October 2015:

Today is the day I turn 17.. Wow! That sounds so weird, so grown up and I don't feel like that at all. I'm typing this whilst wearing a new fluffy onesie for goodness sake! Grown-up people don't do that, do they?! 

I've had such an amazing day. As you might imagine, I was given driving lessons by various friends and family- as nerve-wracking as the prospect of driving is, I'm feeling slightly more excited now, especially since the first one is booked for the 20th November. At least I've got a few weeks to practise the act of starting and changing gears before that. 

I was awake extremely early this morning, so early in fact I was able to see my sister's post on my Facebook wall at 00:00 this morning! She got in there very speedy, I was impressed. I then managed to fall back asleep pretty quickly, awoken by some lovely birthday texts from the family. When I got up and went downstairs I was welcomed by an exciting spread of cards and presents, some spotty pink balloons and a big 'Happy 17th Birthday!' helium balloon. 

I opened lots of lovely things from lovely people. Just some of my presents being a new 'pin board' my mum had made me. I'm a bit of a pin collector, picking them up from wherever we go, so this board is specifically for the pins of places I've been. The fabric has postcards and stamps on it, so it's perfect and I love it. I was also given 7 driving lesson tokens from my mum and a blue leather wrap bracelet with a silver heart engraved with my name. My name is quite uncommon so there's never any keyrings or anything with my name on, so it was really nice to have something personalised. 

I was given a stunning watch from my Dad and Debbie. It's a Kate Spade one, so naturally it's beautiful, I love it!

From Liv I was given a pair of earrings which I've worn all day, and I'm not going to be taking them out any time soon. She also gave me a decorative heart made up of tiny buttons, for anyone that knows me, it's definitely 'me' all over! 

We then went into town and had a wander around, I spotted this onesie (literally, 'this' onesie that I'm wearing now!) and then we met Nanny at Wagamama for lunch. I hardly ever go, but it's such delicious food. 

I had the Yasai Katsu Curry. The sweet potato was delish. I recommend it to anyone that goes.

Yasai Katsu Curry

I also had a 'Clean Green' smoothie, it consists of kiwi, avocado and apple. I also highly recommend that, it was so good. I was a tiny bit dubious when it arrived, but after tasting it I was sold, it may look green and murky, but it tastes fantastic. Is it weird to say it just tasted 'healthy', like it was going to make me live longer?!

The 'Clean Green' smoothie

My Nanny and Grandad gave me a driving lesson token and a necklace for my birthday. I chose the necklace, but I was still mesmerised when I saw it again. The colours are gorgeous and it's from the same shop as the earrings Livs bought me, coincidentally my Nanny and Liv both happened to pick jewellery the same colour, it's as if they are part of a set. So there's no doubt I'll be wearing them at the same time. (And I have been, everyday since my birthday!)

After lunch we went home and I had a hot chocolate and birthday cake.

The cake, as you can see below, is amazing!! My mum and Liv made it. Even the car has a tiny 'L' plate on it. It tasted just as good as it looked too :).

In the evening, Mum, Liv and I all went next door to spend the evening with our neighbours. They cooked me a delicious steak and chips with garlic mushrooms. Steak and chips is my ultimate favourite meal, you can't beat it. They each gave me a driving lesson which was very kind of them. After some sweaty dancing to some crazy songs, we came home and chilled by the TV.

Right now I'm writing this and listening to a bit of Breaking Dawn Part 2, nothing like a nice cheesy vampire movie to lull you to sleep.

I just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has wished me a happy birthday, sent me cards and gave me presents. I've had such a good day, definitely one to remember. I've got some more birthday-related plans so I'm sure I'll write about that in the next few days. 

Okay, so I didn't write about my other birthday plans 'in the next few days', but here they are now...

On the 31st I went to the Salisbury Escape Rooms with Lizzie, Meg, Alice, my mum and sister. We named ourselves 'The Sharknadoes', for anyone having read my blog in the summer, you may just recognise that reference... The Escape Rooms were absolutely brilliant. They were challenging, but we had a great team that worked together and we made it out in under an hour. We had to solve a murder that had been committed at the Smithsonian Museum, I'm not sure if I can mention details of the case so I better keep my mouth shut just in case ;). It was great fun though, and I would love to go back and do another challenge when they create another one. They were very kind and even left a chocolate muffin with a candle in the final room (so I'm very glad we found the key to that one!!).

'The Sharknadoes'

After solving a murder we were a bit hungry so we headed to Pizza Express. My lovely friends gave me some very nice presents. I never thought I would say a mask of Tom Fletcher would be in the mix but it was, along with a 'cocktail a day' book and even a Lush Bubble Bar shaped as a pumpkin! And that's just a sprinkle of things my friends found for me. Meg even gave me a selection of old-style keys that I can turn into necklaces- that reminds me, I need to find a chain for those...

Thank you friends. I love you all and your generous gifting. 

I had an awesome birthday party, thanks to my friends and fam, so thank you everyone that was there. 

I just have one more thing to add- a couple of pictures from the Pumpkin bath I had- courtesy of Alice :).

Lush Pumpkin Bubble Bar- and it was 'lush' :)

Thankfully this didn't turn me into an Oompa Loompa...

That's about it for now. So, I'll say goodbye. Once again, thanks for all the birthday celebrations everyone. I'm afraid there's no 'Today....' as this is a weird post.

Enjoy November everyone, 

L
xxx