I’m on my way back home after visiting my sister in Eastbourne with my Dad. It was such a beautiful day today and the scenery was breathtaking. We went to Beach Head and look around the gift shop first. I bought some postcards which have some amazing photography on them. Then we went for lunch in a cute little pub restaurant over looking the sea. I had an amazing falafel flatbread for lunch. We walked across the headland for a while and it was gorgeous. It was warm and sunny, the sea was perfectly calm and tranquil and the colours and the clouds were amazing. Beach Head is such a beautiful place!

This weekend was especially fun, aside from Dan and I both feeling completely exhausted/on the verge of becoming sick. Tomorrow is my sister Ashley’s 18th birthday so we all went with my mum to Top Golf for the day. We played a game on driving range, messed around taking photos on the podiums and played adventure (mini) golf. It was absolutely freezing but so much fun! At one point I hit my ball into the water trap, expecting it to just make a splash, but it bounced several times over the surface- it was completely frozen over!

Afterwards we had a yummy roast dinner made by my dad and fairycakes my mum had made for my sister (because she doesn’t like birthday cake). Then Dan watched several football matches (whilst I was drifting in and out of consciousness on the couch and played with my kitties) and gave me loads of cuddles until it was time to leave. He has been so cute and romantic the past few days :)

It was a really nice, relaxing weekend. Sometimes I just need to get away from the concrete jungle and mad rush that is London…but it’s always fun on the journey back to see all the pretty lights :) I love the feeling of travelling, it puts me in the perfect state of mind to daydream (and blog)!

Saturday night we went to the Alpha Course party at church which was a really good night, it was nice to see some friends of ours and the dinner was amazing! It’s great for me to get to meet more people down here and especially more people from church. I have been living here a year but because I’m ridiculously shy it takes me ages to get comfortable enough around people to talk to them! It’s nice that there are quite a few faces I recognise now at church. I’ve never moved before so it’s a bit weird still! There are a couple of girls at church who are really nice and a new girl who started work there recently who I might be starting pilates with which will be a great way to finally start losing weight and to get to know some more people around here. Lauren (one of my best friends from home who just moved in with us) said she’s also interested in going so it’ll be good for her too to meet some new people. I’m also joining the church’s 20s/30s group, they organise regular events and I’ve been told they’re all really nice girls. I already know the girl who runs it, she is absolutely lovely and really fun to talk to. The first trip I’m going on is around our local caves (where my sister happens to go a lot even though she lives back in my hometown which is miles away!). I’ve always wanted to see them and Dan might come too. He used to live literally on top of the caves yet has never been down them! It’s our one tourist attraction here!

On sunday we went to Dan’s little sister’s roller-disco for her birthday, which was really fun! I was absolutely exhausted afterwards though and really achy! We had a home-made curry afterwards at Dan’s dad’s house and went there on monday as well for another curry! We actually went round to watch Heroes but it turns out that it’s not starting here until january :( but we saw the first episode of Fast Forward instead which looks really good and will keep us happy until january! Yesterday we had the first of the Alpha meetings and guess what? we had curry again for dinner! Tonight we’re going to Dan’s nan and grandad as we had to cancel on them last week due to a nightmare of a problem at work (we didn’t finish until about 8pm!). Hopefully we won’t have curry again tonight! haha.

Even though our weekends should be more relaxed now we are so busy in general, the weeks just fly by. We go to Dan’s dad’s on monday nights, alpha course on tuesdays, wednesday and thursdays are free, friday night we help out at our church’s youth club, saturday Dan has football (and I hopefully will be doing pilates soon) and sunday morning we go to church! So we are very busy people atm! lol. It’s really nice to have the time to go to church reguarly again now and start going for lunch with our friends afterwards again :)