Formula One At Silverstone!

Hi girls! 

So last weekend it was finally time for the Formula One at Silverstone! I had bought Robert tickets for his Christmas and he was so excited to go! I had got tickets for the Sunday only, which was race day. We left our hotel on Sunday morning really really early and were the only ones of the M6 Toll for a good 5 miles, which was quite spooky actually!

We arrived at Silverstone just after 7 and got a really good parking spot, which meant really easy getting out at the end of the day! We had to pick up our tickets from the ticket office (after a problem with the tickets being sent by post), but it was really easy to find. All we had to do then was take a walk back to the car, stick our parking ticket in the window and then get inside Silverstone!

The Formula One action didn't start until 12, so we had four and a half hours until then! There was actually loads of things to do inside Silverstone, with three races before the F1, loads food places and entertainment and not to mention adventuring around the track, We went on a Formula One 5D ride, which put you in the drivers seat of a F1 car as Jenson Button drove it around the track. It definitely woke us up, when we rode it just after 8am!! 

There were stunt shows that went on during the day, and the bmx bikers tricks were pretty insane! 

We of course took a walk around to the start/finish line, which is under the big Santander board, you can see behind me! It is obviously a very crowded area!!

Robert with a super sized map of the track and also as you can see it was absolutely amazing weather!!

Then 12 came and all of a sudden we had the Red Arrows doing a big display above our heads! It was phenomenal!! At some points the stunt planes were just 6ft away from the next plane, were only 100ft above the ground and going 850 miles per hour!! And of course there was the coloured smoke...!

Drawing love hearts in the sky!

Then it was time for the main event! We stood up in Copse corner and had a great view! The noise of the cars is amazing!! Turn your volume up if you dare!!

The speed the drivers go at is just insane, because the cars have a mind of their own. Honestly they must be completely fearless or be completely crazy! Although I would love a shot of one (hehe, in my dreams!)! 

We had the most amazing warm sunny day and we both got slightly burnt.. Oops! They had pretty good food options too, although slightly expensive, but expected! It was amazing just to be there and feel the atmosphere and actually see these incredible cars in person! We both had a fantastic day!! Oh and also leaving the circuit was so easy and there were no hold ups at all, brilliantly executed!! Unlike the time we went to Nascar!!

Have you ever been to a Formula One race?

Snap 17: Robert Reminiscing...

Hi girls!

For the past two years June is the time we have booked our America trips for the start of the following year. Sadly, this year we are having to cope with withdrawal symptoms as we are wanting to buy a house this year! Robert is especially suffering, desperate to go to Chicago and Boston, which I would love to visit too. However we think we will need to skip booking a trip for 2014.

I love this photo of my amazing Robert when we had just got to Universal Studios in Hollywood, ready for our VIP Experience there. It was one of the best days of our trip!

He was standing in front of the huge Universal Globe and as we had got there so early we were the only people about! It was such a gorgeous day too, absolute bliss! 

With Sprinkle Of Glitter!

The Making Of Harry Potter!

HI girls!

There have been a lot of posts on the studios at Leavesden, but hopefully you won't mind another!! It was honestly one of the best days ever!! I have been a huge Harry Potter fan since I can remember and would read the books constantly and I have to say that the films were epic!! Since the Warner Brother Studios opened, I have been wanting to go so much! I am so glad that my parents got me two tickets to go for my Christmas. My dad said he had not idea why he booked my tickets for May, but it was definitely worth the wait!!

So we got to the studios at 2pm, which was early as our tour was booked for 3pm. I had been told that we should definitely go into the gift shop first to have a look around, so this was exactly what we did! It was the best shop ever!! Any Harry Potter fan would be in heaven! I could have bought everything... Thankfully I remembered that we still had the tour to do half an hour later. After getting the digital guide (which has loads more information about the studios and is basically an Ipod, I highly recommend getting it!!), we asked the lady at the start of the tour if we could go in now even though we are early and she let us go right through!! I won't talk much about the tour as I could just go on and on and on and on about it!!! So here are a lot some photos of the tour!!

Entering the Great Hall

The gates to Hogwarts

Harry's Dorm... Can you spot Harry's bed?!

Gryffindor's Common Room

Triwizard Tournament's Cup!

Staircase to Dumbledore's Office

Memory Cabinet

Dumbledore's Office

Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem

Potions Classroom

Quidditch Robes

The Weasley's House

Bellatrix Lestrange and Voldemort

1. Look I have Butterbeer!!! 2. Taken a sip, trying to work out what it tastes like... 3. This doesn't taste like what I hoped, ie. that I would like it. 4. Oh Roberts still taking photos, smile!! 

Hagrid's Motorbike

Getting on the Knight Bus!

On the Hogwarts bridge

Harry's parents home

Dobby

Diagon Alley!!

Ollivander's

Hogwarts... Honestly seeing this castle made my year!!!! 

Sorry for the photo overload... The tour was amazing and I hope that if you are a Potter fan you will go and visit this someday, because it was just unbelievable! Everything I had wished it would be and so much more!! The gift shop is amazing and of course I bought a few things.... Hehe! Robert and I spent over 4 hours there, it was a great day!!!

Do you love Harry Potter?!