Another lifestyle post today, I promise some beauty ones soon when I get around to taking photo's of the products!
On Saturday 7th December I took a trip to Hyde Park's 'Winter Wonderland' with a group of a friend.
Getting on the train at 10:19, we travelled to Horsham (where we had to change, silly trains!) and got on a slightly longer train journey which would take us into London Victoria.
I was very excited to go to London!
1. I love London!
and
2. It was the first time I've ever been with my friends, by ourselves.
It was so much fun!
We did the whole, 'look its the London Eye' and behaved suitably tourist like that many people would have believed we have never been to London before!
I think it was the fact that we were doing it all together which made us a bit overexcited.
From London Victoria we took the tube (a very squished one) to Green Park, and took a 10 minutes walk to Winter Wonderland.
It was much prettier than I had expected.
The Christmas market went on for ages, the area was bustling with people buying Christmas items, and the sweet smell of mulled wine and hot chocolate filled the air.
For me (a very small person) it is often not fun being in a crowded situation, but although I was in the centre London and I did think I'd lost my friends a couple of time, I didn't really panic and actually really enjoyed the crowded atmosphere.
We went to the Ice Skating at 2:30 to start our session at 2:45, although the skates were uncomfortable, by the time I had got on the ice I forgot about most of it and just had fun skating around on the ice (and I didn't fall over!)
The ice rink was so pretty. There was a net of fairly lights hanging above and Christmas music playing in the bandstand in the centre, and as it got dusky everything just got more fun as the lights finally had an effect.
I must say the lights at Winter Wonderland are amazing!
It was a fun day and I came away with a few Christmas purchases (I'm not ashamed).
First of all I bought two cute Christmas candles which come in a little jar (one has snowmen on and one has santa), who add to my Christmas decorations on my mantlepiece, along with my glass Christmas tree decoration which I have blogged about in a previous post here. Finally I bought some delicious fudge!
It was such a fun day out and I would definitely recommend it to anyone thinking about going!
I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Lauren
x