Wednesday, 23 February 2011

It was my birthday! (picture heavy)

So if you follow me on twitter, or even have read my last couple of blogs, there is no way you could have missed that my birthday was on the 16th.

My dad lives out in the states permanently now as we have all earnt our greencard's, my brother is finishing his a levels and then going in July and i'm going after my degree. So anyway, my dads last scheduled trip to the UK isn't until march so he asked me to travel out to see him for my birthday, just for a week, but we made sure it was packed!

So i jumped on the plane on valentines, on my birthday, we had a wonderful shopping trip to the mall (predictably!), and we were talking about a movie (3000 miles to Graceland) and i was like... 'Daddy.... you know, i'd love to go to Memphis...' so long story short, the next day we did the 750 mile drive to Memphis, Tennessee via Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, on the Friday we did Graceland, sun studios and Elvis' birthplace in tupelo, Mississippi, then left tupelo at 5pm and arrived back in Fla at 7am on saturday morning!

Then sunday we had the NASCAR daytona 500, which was awesome too.



Oh HELL yes!


Ok, so lots of bits, including a new little ipod nano because i loathe having to carry round my old iphone for music.


The 'tabitha' dress from monsoon

How cute are these pj bottoms? You can see my new jeans under there too.


And some more ugg boots!
Didnt used to be a fan but my black ones came in pretty handy in the snow, so hey, why not, i do much prefer the chesnut, and soo snuggly!

Ok, so Tennessee!
Priscilla was tiny!


Sun Studios


Beale Street

The birth place.

My face and arms ended up rather sunburnt from Daytona!

Overall i had a wonderful birthday experience which i am very grateful for :)
I'm now enjoying sleeping off my jet lag and spending time with Craig!
I hope you're all well.

11 comments:

  1. Looks like a great trip and birthday! I wanted to go to Graceland too when I spent summer in the US but never made it. Was a bit of a treck from Boston :(
    xxx

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  2. Awhh you got some great bits and bobs,
    I really want to take a trip to America,
    Its at the top of my to do list,
    x

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  3. wow you got a lot of great gifts! That Wizard of Oz thing is so cute! Is it a jewelry box? Adorable!

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  4. Happy Birthday! Sounds like an amazing trip!

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  5. @Becky. Thankyou!

    @Lauren, Yeah it's like a little trinket type box!

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  6. Wow fantastic, you lucky thing x

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  7. WOW! such a cool road trip!! i love the tabitha dress from Monsoon, what do thin of Mac in a book? lol my dads gone skiing in France via the Mac stand in duty free and picked me one up lol xxxx


    (we are totes daddy's girls! haha :))

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  8. @Sarah, Thankyou!
    We definately are! haha
    As for the look in a box, i really love it, i went for rocker chick because i wanted to try a grey and back smoky eye, and it works out well, i really loved the other two though, girl next door was sold out, but the other one, a very stylish girl i think its called was gorgeous, though i went for rocker because id forgotten any eyeliner and it included one!
    xx

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  9. Elvis and NASCAR? How awesome! Gotta plan a birthday like this myself.

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