Today was our last full day of adventure. And to start our day of we went to the nicest pancake place ever!! YOGYUMS. It literally breaks me that I can't go again, unless I take a casual trip up to Preston. Which somehow I don't think will be happening again any time soon. But I promise you if you're ever up in Lancashire to go to Preston just for Yogyums. You won't regret it.
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| Love this picture! What a cutie. |
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| Kathy before our pancakes! |
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| Oreo party pancake with additional white chocolate sauce. |
So I want for a Oreo party pancake which included crushed oreos, raspberrys, milk chocolate sauce, whipped cream and I added some white chocolate sauce, it was literally heaven. However it completely beat me and I couldn't finish it all, but regardless of that, it was orgasmic. However with my pancake I thought it would be a good idea to try an Appletiser, but not just any Appletiser, an apple and pomegranate one. The worst mistake I could have ever made. It tasted like salad. A drink should
not taste like food; let alone a salad, and an awful one at that.
After our pancakes we made our way to Preston station to catch our train to Blackpool North.
However unfortunately there was a fatality so we had to catch a train to Blackpool South. But of course before we got on to the train we had to take some memorable selfies.
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| Just a tad windy. |
As we were taking these gorgeous photos, a odd gentleman decided to ask us, "what do you actually do with those photos?". What are you meant to say to that? At first I thought, maybe he was just intrigued but I later changed my opinion. So I replied "put them on Facebook". He was still looking at us, half intriguingly, half with disgust. I then commented on how we didn't come from Preston, he then said "Where do you come from?", I replied "Devon". He then stated how he came from Australia and that's a lot further away than Devon. I didn't quite understand what he was trying to get at, and really what to think of it all. But there we go, I just let him get on with his day and we got on with ours making sure we took an extra amount of photos. The train ride to Blackpool North was actually really pretty, plenty of fields which I definitely wasn't expecting.
We were quite fortunate actually because the weather was beautiful, however I'm not keen on the wind! I felt like I was going to be blown away. We also took a trip to a 'Haunted House', where I held Chloe's hand like a complete child expecting real people to be inside, however we got the whole way round without a single scary event, yet the whole time I was scared of being scared. It was great.
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| My poor attempt of taking a picture with the Cats poster. Epic fail. |
We then made our way down the promenade (check me out, using fancy words) until we reached the central pier. It was probably the most walking me & Kathryn had done all week!!
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| Favourite photo of the day! |
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| Happy Shannon! |
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| Ma chicas! - Why do I always look so short? |
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| Kathryn spreading her legs for Blackpool. |
So eventually we made it to the pier where we played some serious games of air hockey.
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| Me highly concentrating |
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| Kathryn told me to smile! |
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| Chloe can't help but look cute, even when trying to be competitive. Her face is too kind. |
So Kathryn & Chloe were the air hockey champions. So after that we made our way through the arcade trying not to be tempted by the 2p games, that trick you into thinking you're going to win a fiver when in all honesty, you're more likely to win the lottery that day. We then decided to go into a photo booth, that sketches your faces thinking it would be a fabulous piece of memorabilia. How wrong could we have been. It was £2 for a 1/3 of each of our faces, or maybe a 1/4 of Kathryn's who was actually keeping the masterpiece. The whole time spent in the photo booth was a disaster waiting to happen, nothing was going right, then suddenly it had taken all of our three pictures and that is what we ended up with. \/\/\/ But it did make us laugh an awful lot.
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| Massive fail. |
We then made it through the arcade where Zoe was on a mission to win a huge Minion.
Unfortunately Zoe was unsuccessful, but she did walk away with a small price.. a baby meercat teddie. Not quite a giant minion. But on the upside it meant she didn't have to travel on the train home alone with a giant minion on her lap.
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| Blackpool tower |
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| Post card quality if I do say so myself |
We then made our way to the train station to drop Zoe off as she had to go home to work, but we carried on our adventure. We then popped into Sainsbury's to get some snacks for the theatre, for Kathryn to then realise she had lost her purse. I don't think I've ever seen someone so calm when losing their purse. I would have probably had the worst mood swing ever, but nope not Kathy! So we retraced our steps in hope of finding her purse. Kathryn was adamant that the last time she saw/used her purse was in the photo booth which was nearly an hour previous. For some reason or another Kathryn decided to take a picture of the photo booth when we were leaving the arcade, I think purely because she felt like it robbed her of £2 but that's besides the point, in this very photo, there her purse was!! What were the chances.
Her purse was perfectly hidden, fortunately when we arrived back at the pier her purse was still in the same exact spot! Panic over. Now it was time to visit the Blackpool tower, after taking lots of pictures of the outside, we were now about to see the beautiful view from the inside.
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| Kathryn's highlight of the day. |
We were lucky enough to be able to see inside the ballroom, which was incredible!
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| Bid me discourse I will enchant thine ear |
We then decided it was time for dinner, so we went for a cheeky Nandos (had to be said).
I had half a chicken; lemon & herb with mash & corn on the cob. Can't beat a good Nandos. And of course I added Garlic peri peri sauce as well. The food was great, but the service was appalling. I truly believe that the lady who served us looked like a back end of a bus. She was miserable. I just didn't understand how someone could be so moody. Ah well, we were about to go to the theatre so nothing was going to ruin our moods. I truly believe that the theatre is one of my favourite places, EVER.
The stage looked incredible. Every inch of the stage was designed perfectly. We also had the perfect view of the stage. And of course I had my poshcorn at the ready. I was set.
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| Sweet & Salty perfection. |
The production was incredible, the movement and expression of each actress and actor was outstanding. Although I wouldn't recommend the production for a theatre virgin. Because I felt the story line was lacking. Although there was a story, I didn't feel it was very clear or as interesting as it could have been. Nevertheless I adore the theatre, so it didn't bother me as much as I feel it would bother someone who wasn't a theatre enthusiast. Other than that the make-up and costumes were stunning and overall I felt it was an amazing production.
So our night had come to an end and it was time to head back to Preston to catch some much needed sleep before our long journey back to Exeter tomorrow.
Thanks for sticking around if you've made it this far, I hope you've all enjoyed my road trip blogs and are looking forward to Day 6, our last day!!
Muchos love,
Shannon
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