I have returned from holiday! (Quite a while ago, however I had no time to post! :P)
That was 2 whole weeks between Paris and Cologne! I know I didn't give any warning as to my absence however I don't believe in holiday pre-posts unless you have damn good locks on your house. Letting everyone know your house will be empty just doesn't seem like the best move....and as my neighbours house nearly got all jacked up just before we left you will forgive me sneaking off yes? ;D
It was amazing, 2 weeks of beautiful sights, tasty cheeses (I love me some cheeses) and all different kinds of awesome. I'll put up a little sprinkle of pictures as we literally took 2000. That's not even an exaggeration, I'm not sure how many there were initially as you have to go through, delete duplicates you took for safety, erase the photobombs, toss out the blurry ones. Even then I was left with around 617 D:
Anyway, here are the highlights of the holiday!
The Eiffel tower, afternoon and at night.
The view from the top of the tower <3
Disneyland: Disney castle, night and day.
Left to right: Notre Dame, at the Louvre, Val D'Europe Sealife centre, Arc de Triomphe.
I do just want to point out that I totally went a bit nuts on the French baking front, I made it a little side mission to find the perfect recipe for Madeleines. I acquired a ton of silicone bakeware (y'all know how I love my silicone bakeware) and a load of French recipe books. I will post pics when I have actually unpacked them >.<
We then went to Germany. Woo Cologne! <3
As Jamie isn't such a good flier, we get train erry'wah! The first picture is me being SUPER tired on the Thalys train from Paris to Cologne, with my pasty face yet startlingly orange hair.
We went to the zoo, walked by the Rhein and saw the Cologne Cathedral. Neat!
It was also my 21st Birthday whilst I was there, partypartyparty ;D
Well, my idea of partying, which of course means being around a LOT of wildlife so the zoo was an obvious choice.
I guess you could say they were my party animals? ;D
Y'get it?..aha..Cos they're..like...animals!....And....*cough*....moving on.
Anyway, we woke up in the morning and Jimbo gave me my birthday prezzies. Some beautiful heart shaped earrings, some spider studs and a dangly earring set with some awesome playing card looking ones in there!
He also got me Saints row 3 (Wonderful game, love it to bits!)
The we went to the zoo!
It was beautiful there! It was huge! We actually ran out of camera battery whilst we were there. There was a whole gigantic zoo full of beautiful animals and then there was a sealife centre attachment, with an upstairs section for bugs! It took us forever to get round it all but it was the best zoo I've ever been too.
After that we went home to get changed (and recharge our batteries) so we could go out for a meal.
We found this sweet looking Italian place on the way home from the zoo, it looked so quiet and peaceful there.
Now I'm not normally one to photograph my food (unless I'm doing a step-by-step for a cake or I aim to recreate the meal later) but ohmylife look how DELICIOUS it looks!
I really do want to try and make the meal on the right. It was called a "Combinazione" and it was a mix of tortellini, canelloni and lasagne. I think it was the best thing I have ever eaten in my whole life. I had a couple of hot chocolates too, both with whipped cream and a tiny amaretto biscuit. Oooh just thinking about it makes me HUNGRY.
Anyway, as we were finishing dinner, Jamie took my hands and told me he would always love me, he knows he'd never want to be with anyone else and that he hopes I felt the same about him.
He then told me to close my eyes.
When I opened them he pulled me to my feet, got down on 1 knee and asked me to marry him.
Of course, I said yes:
Excited engaged face :P
My ring is based on my favourite ring of power from LOTR. It's based on Nenya, Galadriels ring. It has little leaves on it and the rock is all shiny so it looks like the "light between her fingers" :P
Phew, I'm sleepy now.
Laters!
xxxxxx
