Rachel's Next Adventure

On the same day as I visited Fulwell Quarry, my fiancé and I headed to Leazes Park in Newcastle on the evening. There were a few locations in the park I wanted to get some photographs of, but to my surprise - the park was absolutely full of people! Every time i've visited in the past (always for college I think, and usually in late winter) the park has had maybe three other people wandering around, but today the park was filled with people, most of them students relaxing after a day of lectures. I didn't get the photographs I went for, but I did get a few, and I plan on going back to take the photographs I originally went to get. Here are a few that I took: Follow this blog on BlogLovin' Like us on Facebook

On the morning of the 21st of April, it was warm and sunny so I decided to get ready and head out on an adventure. I live very close to Fulwell Quarry, and its not somewhere I really like to visit at all - never mind on my own! Now-a-days its frequented by groups of adolescents who gather to drink, start fires and race their stolen cars (my first car was stolen - and found in the quarry with one from two streets away!). In the morning, especially on a school day, its a quiet and peaceful place, you see quite a few people walking their dogs, but nothing else going on. Its a beautiful place, the only thing spoiling it is all the littering that goes on - I don't think I saw a single tree that didn't have a plastic bag stuck in its branches. The first thing I noticed when I got onto the quarry is that someone has decided a big, open field where drunk youths hang out is the perfect place for three horses to be chained down! The entire field was just full of horse wa...

On Wednesday the 15th of April, my Mam and I went to the 7:30pm showing of Wicked at the Sunderland Empire Theatre. I had bought her the tickets for Mother's Day last year, and she had been looking forward to seeing it ever since. Personally, I didn't think this musical was the best i've seen, in fact, I might even rate it lower than Avenue Q and I didn't really enjoy that either. Don't get me wrong, it did have its moments, defying gravity was probably the best song from the entire musical, its the kind of song that makes you think - and just at the right time as the interval is right after defying gravity. Everyone has a chance to fly - for some reason this line is influential for some fans of Wicked, but deep down, its a line about animal cruelty!  The monkeys looked like they were in agony when they were transformed and grew their wings. I would have liked the dragon to have had a bit more part of the show, when it started it h...

Last night my fiancé and I went to see The Avengers Age Of Ultron! Stan Lee's cameo in this is my favourite of all of them so far. The movie was great - as expected - but I think the first one was better, there was more of a storyline behind it, the second one is just piecing together bits from other movies - Hydra, finding Loki's sceptre, and a Leviathan even appears in the movie. There are three main new characters here who we haven't seen before (well, two, because technically one of them was in the last XMEN movie) - the three new Avengers throughout the movie are Quicksilver, Scarlett Witch, and Vision. Although at the end we see more new Avengers joining the group, and one main member potentially leaving - or just going away for a while. We also lose was main 'character' who we all know and love - Jarvis, and his replacement - Friday, just doesn't sound right. But don't worry - we don't completely lose Jarvis - he becomes The Visi...

Ok, so my Nan's birthday was actually a few days before my fiancé's birthday, but i'm not going to go in depth about my Nan's birthday, I just want to show you the cake!. As the photocake machine at our local supermarket was broken around the time of the birthdays we just bought one of the plain cakes and decorated it ourselves - I'm pretty happy with it, I would have preferred to get the bigger cake and have had some red icing too (I thought we had some left but we didn't!). But here it is Since I took that photo I added a couple of hearts on, but they were yellow too - no red icing! Theres one each side of 'Nan'. This isn't the first time we've decorated one of these cakes ourselves - this is the one my Mam decorated for me last year. Do you enjoy decorating cakes? Show me some cakes! :) Follow this blog on BlogLovin' Like us on Facebook

A few weeks ago my fiancé and I went to see the new Cinderella film. It's been a very long time since I saw the Disney classic so I couldn't really remember too much of the story (other than the bits about the fairy Godmother and the glass slipper!), I did enjoy the film but it just didn't quite have that 'umpf' to make it stand out against the other films that are due out this year. I like films that make you think, and feel motivated, where as Cinderella was just plain. Here is my fiancé's review: Cinderella, a live action remake of a timeless classic, tells a tale we all know and love: girl loses parents, girls step-mother and step-sisters are mean to her, fairy god mother, Prince Charming, glass slippers and love at first sight. If you don't know how this film ends, you must have been born in a cave and raised by wolves. A couple of interesting points, the mice don't sing, so there's no rendition of The Work Song (Cinderelly)...

Sunday was my fiancé's birthday, we had originally planned to spend the day in South Shields or Durham, but the weather forecast wasn't looking too good, and although it didn't rain, it was very windy and cold at times. In the end we had a lazy morning, before heading into Sunderland City Centre and picking up a new suitcase for him for our upcoming trips to Japan and Spain, we got some food and visited a few other shops to pick up some of our holiday things before heading back to our house at around 3:30. We finally set up the Wii U that we got at Christmas! and played a few rounds of Mario Kart after about an hours worth of downloading updates! Here is the cake I bought him. I usually get him a photocake done, but the machine wasn't working when I bought this and I didn't want to leave getting a cake until the last minute so I chose the Big Hero 6 one - he loved the movie so much that we had to see it twice! I don...