I also done a vlog the whole weekend if you fancy a watch!
This year for Christmas I decided to surprise my best friend with a weekend away to London.
This was a total shock to me as what I had planned for her didn't actually last till Christmas so I had to improvise. I said to her that the surprise was her early present. She was absolutely fine with that.
So I love giving surprises to people as I enjoy seeing their faces once they've realised what they've got. A few years ago I surprised my mum with Adele tickets to the London O2 and the year after I surprised my other best friend Gemma for her birthday and we went up to London as I got her tickets to go see the lion king. I done a clue every month leading up to the day we was in London. She didn't have a clue and she didn't even think when we was standing outside the theatre. So I pretended to take a picture of her when I was actually filming her reaction. This was priceless for me. She ended up screaming and the people around us probably would of thought what are those girls doing..
So I thought as I love giving surprises, I would surprise Hollie with a weekend away in London.
Hollie comes over every Thursday so I thought I could come up with some clues to give her every week leading up to the day. I always thought when you give clues to someone they should always rhyme.
These are the clues that I have given to her..
This was her first ever clue. She had no clue what it was.
This was her second clue. She still didn't have a clue. Kept calling me Dr Seuss because she liked the rhyming I had done.
This where I kind of slipped up and mentioned we was going to London as I thought we had already spoken about it. OPPS!
This was her fourth clue and she mentioned something about Winter Wonderland. Which I had to say that doesn't open till late November.
This was her fifth clue. Yep she still had no clue what so ever.
This was her last ever Thursday clue. We was 2 days away and she was starting to get really annoyed with the fact she still didn't know what we was doing.
This was her first clue for the BIG DAY. I gave this to her once we got onto the train, so it gave her something to think about.
This is the clue I gave to her once we arrived outside the theatre. Once we took a picture outside the Musical poster.
I also came up with a London To Do List
I had done this as I had to somehow get her to the place we needed to go too.
This included things that you would normally do in London without throwing her off the scent of her surprise.
My to do list I made included things such as:
- Take a picture at Bexhill station
- Take a picture at underground
- Take a picture of us eating lunch
- Buy one item from the Disney Store
- Take a picture of us outside the hotel room
- Take a picture of our posh room
- Take a picture with a old telephone box
- Take a random funny picture
- Take a funny video
- Take a picture with a Landmark
- Take a picture with our favourite musical poster
- Take a picture of us in our pj's
- Take a picture of our pudding order
Little did she know that the thing in purple was her actual surprise!
I also wrote her a little letter that I had put in a Thank You card to give her once we arrived at the hotel as this year has been a tough one and I just wanted to give her something to say thank you. I cried whilst writing that letter so fingers crossed she doesn't cry.
Turned out she did cry! My job was for her to know how thankful I was for her not to make her cry!
We then got ready and of course we had to take a few selfies I
And some funny ones too!
Off we went on the tube to Piccadilly circus tube station! She still had no clue what her surprise would be. Until the final clue was read out loud.
FINALLY THE SECRET IS OUT!!
STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL!
We saw it on the last day the musical was going to be in London but we also saw it during the night so it was the last ever performance of it! This made it extra special for us. The musical is such a classic to Hollie and I and once I found out from West End Live that it was going to be on I thought we need to get tickets asap!
Once the musical was over we was on such a musical singing spree so on the way back to the hotel we was singing songs non stop. But this made me not realise we had actually got on the wrong tube and good thing Hollie noticed otherwise we would of had a very long walk back!
The weekend was an absolute hit!
I cant wait for the next adventure we have which I believe it going to be going to see the Spice Girls at Wembley!!
