Looking forward to 2014!

Hello you lovely people,

I hope you've all had a brilliant Christmas and hope you'll also be having a fantastic new years to bring in 2014. Thought of a new years resolution yet? Not long to go!

I had a great Christmas with lovely family and friends, and had some exciting news that my uncle and his wife are expecting a baby which means I'll have a lovely baby cousin and for a few years at least I will no longer be the shortest person in the family! Lots of presents and yummy food, plenty of laughs and fun made it even better.

Obviously I'm looking forward to the start of 2014 and seeing what it has to bring, all good I hope but unfortunately this isn't always the case but fingers crossed anyway, no bad news please. Everyone always says the same thing with the beginning of any new year and this is the old 'new year, new me' blah, blah, blah. I don't see it like that, I'll always be me, the same little Lily I've always been but I'll just try to improve on how I am already and be better person. No need to change so much that I become a 'new me', just little things that I'd be happier to change.

For this blog the new year will also bring some changes, not big ones but just things I'd like to add. I'll be trying to post more regularly instead of long periods of time with no posts then lots all at once, however as this blog is currently mainly film reviews this may not always be the case. I'd like to try to keep writing my film reviews and posting them but not each post will be a review. I'd also be sharing anything I like and enjoy and maybe fun and exciting things that have happened.

Hopefully you lovely readers will still continue to take a look at my blog every now and again, and maybe even share it with friends, why not.

For now I'll wish you a happy new year and hope 2014 brings you all happiness and fun.
Until next time, thanks for reading :) x

'Buddy the Elf, what's your favourite colour?'...

Hello lovely people,

Haven't blogged in a little while because I've been busy and trying to work out which Christmas film is my favourite and it's down to two so this is just a short post to let you know the ones I've enjoyed so far this December.

There are so many Christmas films and I like watching them all, especially while snuggled up with a nice hot drink with the Christmas lights twinkling away.
Surprisingly I haven't watched that many Christmas films this year but so far I have watched Home Alone, Elf, Love Actually, Nightmare Before Christmas (I hope that counts as one), and A Muppets Christmas Carol. But obviously there are also so many more!

As much as I enjoy watching them all in the time leading up to Christmas day I have worked out what my favourite two are as its too hard to choose just one. So the final decision is that my favourite two that I enjoy most have to be Elf and Love Actually. I just love them so much and can never watch them too many times or get bored of them, I seem to watch them every Christmas and this will always be the way it is, nothing will keep me from my Christmas films :)

Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays so far and feeling very festive, 3 sleeps left to go!
Until next time, thanks for reading ... And have a merry christmas and a happy new year!!

Disneyland Paris trip!

Hello my wonderful readers,

Been a while since I last blogged and there are a few reasons for that but the main one being that I went to Disneyland Paris!! My friends and I went away for a weekend in November with our university to visit Disneyland and it was simply amazing! The adverts say that it's where your dreams come true, and they may be right. You're never too old for Disney and when you're there it just feels like you're a child again surrounded by characters, rides, and magic!

Statue/water feature in our hotel.

The journey there was so long and tiring but even the very little sleep didn't stop my friends and I going straight out to the park once we'd arrived at the hotel, which was rather nice.
The wind and the cold were a bit much while we were waiting for the shuttle bus to the Disney parks but once we got into Disneyland we forgot about it and headed for lunch then off to our first ride.

 Day one we headed into the Disneyland park and then day two was mostly spent in the Disney studios before going back over to the other park for the Christmas Parade, which was simply amazing!
I can't quite remember all the rides we went on but I can easily say I loved every one of them and would go on them all over again, don't even think I'd ever get bored of them!

The welcome sign to the Disneyland park.

Magical Christmas lights!

Some of the rides that I remember we did go on are:

• Space Mountain 
• Thunder Mountain
• It's a Small World
• Tower of Terror 
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• We walked through Alice's Curious Labyrinth 
• Phantom Manor

And probably a couple more that I forgot.

Everything about being there was just wow! Not just the rides, the way that there was so much detail put into everything in the park was simply fantastic. The people working the different rides had different uniforms depending on what that particular ride was based on.

There were different lands within the park and these were:

• Discoveryland
• Fantasyland
• Adventureland
• Frontierland
• as well as Main Street USA that you first walk along when you enter the park. 

Even the shops and restaurants within the park were nice to go in and look around. I have to say that the Rainforest Cafe is the most spectacular and breathtaking restaurant I have ever been into, I think it may even be my new favourite! There's so much going on inside that it actually makes it seem like you're in the middle of the rainforest! And the food was so, so good, if I could I'd happily eat there everyday. We also went to Planet Hollywood which was still good and the food was yummy, but nothing will ever compare to interior of Rainforest Cafe. 

Inside the Rainforest Cafe. 

As we went mid-November they had already put up all the Christmas lights around the park which made it look more magical as it got darker throughout the afternoon/evening. The Christmas tree was the biggest tree I think I have ever seen, and I think the baubles may have been nearly as big as my head!!

Giant Christmas tree.

Huge bauble!

Christmas lights along Main Street USA with
Sleeping Beauty castle in the background.

Obviously going to Disneyland wouldn't be complete without meeting at least one character, I would have hoped to meet a couple but some of the lines were just too long and we saw them all in the Christmas Parade anyway. We managed to meet Minnie Mouse and I was strangely surprised about how short she was bless her, I thought I was small (I like to think good things come in small packages so it's ok)! But anyway it was lovely and I felt like a child again, to be honest I felt like a child the whole time I was there.

Unfortunately the trip had to come to an end at some point, but it was the best weekend I had had in a long time. Disneyland Paris was absolutely positively amazing, and it was lovely to be able to go away with my friends too. Was a great break from studying at uni and was a stress free weekend. Everyone describes Disneyland  as being magical and the land where all your dreams come true. I think I'll have to agree to this. You can never be too old for Disney and you can only be happy there, there's nothing to be unhappy about while you're at Disneyland.

One day when I have the time and money I think I will most definitely go back again and I'd never get bored of it. Would always recommend Disneyland to anyone for a holiday, whether its a family trip, a couples trip or a group of friends going away together, its the type of place that everyone and anyone could enjoy.

Until next time, thanks for reading lovelies :) 

Sleeping Beauty Castle.