Peaceful week off

As you may of read in previous posts my holiday was cancelled this year so I joined Matt in taking a week off. He gets considerably more holiday than me and he had an exam so decided to take the whole week off. I haven't had a break this year so far so I decided to join him. I had no real plans just wanted to relax and unwind a bit.

I will start by saying Matt sat his exam on Thursday and he passed. I am really proud of him! We went out and ate waffles to celebrate.

I won't write a long detailed post as we really didn't get up to anything exceptionally exciting. Since Hyper Japan a few weeks ago I am thrown myself head first into the world of Yaoi anime and manga so I wanted to mostly overindulge on those and re-watch Black Butler. So the week involved a lot of pajama days in front of the TV or curled up up somewhere reading.... very relaxing and perfection!

Sunday Matt and I went to Bluewater and he managed to talk me into getting a new iPad. Oops..... I also got some manga and then in the evening I FINALLY saw STAR TREK..... I won't lie it was epic and I loved every minute of it. We went up to the BFI Imax to see it as we have done with the previous Star Trek movies. I loved how the characters really shone in this movie and I loved the story line as well. The whole thing was awesome....

Monday I insisted we took a trip to Brighton for the day.... this day was probably my favourite. We got the train down, ate lunch and then shopped. I got more manga (you see I have developed a problem here) and a dress in the sale for £15 that I fell in love with. We then laid on the beach in the sun reading and cuddling before going and getting ice cream and then having dinner on the sea front. It was hotter than I thought as poor Matt got sun burnt.

The next few days were really lazy days and on Wednesday Matt took me out for dinner to my first ever Indian restaurant. I'm still not a curry lover but I did really enjoy the meal we had and it was a beautiful restaurant. On Friday I insisted we go and do something so we had lunch and went to play mini golf. The day wasn't quite as exciting as I had hoped. The weather was crappy and the mini golf was super small and underwhelming for the distance we travelled. However I still enjoyed being out with Matt.

So that was pretty much my week off and here is a bunch of photos I took throughout the week.

New shiny gadget and mangas.

Star Trek was amazing and I want to see it again

Brighton was so hot and perfect

Brighton Doughnuts on the train home

More manga and the dress I bought

Matt and I out for dinner

Mini golf in my new dress

I do love dinosaurs 

Matt and I playing golf, he won :(

I would of liked to of had a few more things planned but at the same time I really enjoyed the quiet down time. I was feeling pretty burnt out so just needed a break I think for a little bit. 

I cannot believe the week has come and gone. I am not even sure if we actually had all the days off we were meant to it went that fast..... I really did enjoy some quiet time though and although I am gutted I have to go back to work, I am hoping I will feel a little more charged and ready to go! Well maybe haha! 

Yoho argggh.... Pirate golf date night.

Me and Matt Saturday, a RARE photo opportunity! 

Yoho yoho! Arrgh me heartys… I went on a date night on Saturday. We were pretty bored and I think Matt was fed up of sitting in doors, so after dinner we decided to scrap the cinema (so no review this week) and head off to Mr Mulligan’s Pirate Island Adventure Golf. It was £10 after 5pm for two people so we thought we would give it a try!

 We had a lot of fun. I have to say I am glad we went in the evening it would have been £17 during the day which I think would have been on the slightly expensive side, but £10 and the fact it was so quiet I think we got a really good deal!

My new pirate buddy!

Unfortunately I lost with 73 and Matt got 66! BOO! There was one hole that took me TEN goes! TEN! I need to brush up on my mini golf skills. The course was nicely looked after and clean, and because of the time of night it was pretty quiet and peaceful.

There was a running pirate theme throughout (obviously being called Pirate island) which meant that there was little rivers of water, sand and two little raft things you had to use to pull yourself across the water!

Sailing on the water!

Of course the ball ended up in the water countless times, and I seemed particularly talented at hitting it off the course! As the holes went on they go trickier and there were some interesting bits to make it harder which I just HAD to do, such as the loopde loop!

Towards the end there was a pirate ship that you got to go in and up on deck which was fun too, the whole experience was pretty interactive!

We ended up having a lovely time together and just being out the house and messing round was lovely! I will definitely be doing this again before the weather turns, it makes a very enjoyable date night! I love evenings like this; it really reminds me why I’ve been with Matt for over 9 years! I think sometimes you do the same thing week in week out and take each other for granted! We ended with some coffee and a cookie in the café and then headed to Tesco afterwards to get Matthew some Pj’s ( I have finally convinced him they are a good idea!)

So yeah I was really pleased with how Saturday ended and I hope to do it again soon! :D

Hope the week flies by and we are back at Saturday in no time at all!