Hello (:
It's been a long time, eh? This new job lark has really been doing me in.
So, June! I started my new job on the 1st. I've never had a full time office job before so the past month has been a lot of getting to grips with things and adjusting to getting up really early and having a lot less time to be sat around the house. I can't say it's been the most thrilling time of my life, but there has been some really good weekends.
I had to work on the first Saturday I started. It was a bit of a kick, but I needed the Saturday I was originally scheduled for swapping as that was the weekend me and those two in the photo above were going to Thorpe Park.
Best. Weekend. Ever.
I'm sure I've said those words X amount of times about X amount of weekends (Download Fest '13, anyone?) but it really kept me going when work got tougher. All expectations were lived up to.
We booked Thorpe Park back in January and planned it around my friend's 24th birthday. We managed to get a seriously good deal, it was around £200 for four people to stay in the Shark Hotel with two days entry to Thorpe Park. The weekend we'd chosen fell on an event as well, so we got free tickets to the Ministry of Sound party that was taking place on the Saturday night.
We arrived on the Saturday and headed straight to the theme park and managed to get around it all two or three times. I think we went on The Swarm the most over the whole weekend. If you do go to Thorpe Park, definitely get yourself onto the backwards seats on it, it's probably one of the best rollercoasters I've ever been on. We were all quite surprised with the layout of the park, we're all so used to walking miles around Alton Towers so we were quite pleased to find out Thorpe Park is much more compact. Combine that with the fact it was fairly quiet, meaning less time queuing proved for a successful day.
The Shark Hotel is really interesting as well. It's just off to the side of the theme park and it's really small, we had a room for four with one double bed and a set of bunk beds. Our fourth person dropped out at the last minute though, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise as the room was a little claustrophobic at times. Especially when we were all trying to get ready for the event! The event wasn't for me at all. I'm not into Ministry of Sound, the music and the atmosphere of it really isn't my thing. Because we'd not brought our bags into the hotel when we checked in (we left site for a Nandos) we ended up being subjected to really invasive checks where security went through all our things and I almost had my backcomb brush taken off me because they thought it could be used as a weapon!
The Ministry of Sound event was for want of a better word, pants. It's not my thing at all and security was really tight and there were rumours flying round that people were taking drugs in the toilets and all sorts. No. Just, no. So, we bought a double vodka Slush Puppy each for £8 and went on The Swarm in the dark (rides were open till 11) then called it a night around half 12.
On the Sunday, we had breakfast in the bar (seriously SO good!) I stuck to mini croissants and jam and chocolate spread, but those two went all out and had full English. We then went round the park again, and went on everything for the last time, as well as The Swarm a good four times! It was a really good weekend and I can't recommend Thorpe Park enough, we're already looking at going back next year.
Other than Thorpe Park, not much else has happened this month! We had a night out for my friend's 24th birthday, ate a lot of pizza, I went to Sheffield Hallam's open day and scared myself silly and still haven't made any concrete decisions about the future. If anything that open day has created more problems in my head. Then, last week myself and my mum went on a little coach trip across to Skegness. I haven't been since I was about sixteen so it was a nice little nostalgia trip including chips and donuts.
The only other big news I've got from June (although not really because we booked it yesterday) is that me and my best pal are going on holiday to Las Vegas in August 2016! We booked it on a bit of a whim last night, having spoken about it for a good year now. We're staying at The Flamingo hotel and I couldn't be more excited to get there.
I hope June's treated you well. I feel like summer's properly started this week with all the unbearable humidity and plenty of sunshine! Hopefully it won't be so long until the next post.
