21: another year gone!

Chris and I take the "fancy dress" requirements seriously

On Thursday 29th March, in a very wobbly fashion, I turned 21. I must admit, despite waking up besides my gorgeous boyfriend I was something of a nervous wreck and burst into tears quite spontaneously on multiple occasions throughout the day- including during a meeting with my seminar tutor which was frightfully embarrassing for both of us I believe, as he very quickly changed the conversation away from my essay grade and towards my semester abroad last year!


As it turned out, there really was nothing to worry about. After the mornings' classes, Chris treated me to a picnic lunch of sushi and rather a lot of booze which he had illegally (teehee) smuggled onto campus, and which we sipped beside the lake, blessed with gorgeous sunny weather! He was such a gent, and had hand-picked me a mixed mojito drink and Pimms and even a cranberry & vodka mix yumyum... I was spoilt! 


On returning back to Newmarket Street, I had a lovely night out with a few close friends, and of course my gorgeous boyfriend (who began the evening in full fancy dress requirements as the infamous Ali G to accompany my Lara Croft) who quickly got changed before we entered the "clubbing scene" of Norwich. Being the last day of term, the biggest club was jam-packed so we resorted to bar crawling instead!


Chris and I awoke rather gently the following morning to take a train back home, and before long a week had flown by, guests of family and friends from Norwich had arrived, and it was time to begin the next set of celebrations!!

Quite chuffed! First time back in a limousine since year 11 prom!

Once again, I was in for a treat- and my oh my was it a surprise! With friends and family gathered inside sipping champagne and eating nibbles, little did I know that outside my home was pulling up a ridiculously awesome stretch limo to take me to the party!!

There was some drink and little chocolates inside which some wonderful family friends had organised for me and my friends, and we all bundled inside to enjoy the ride!!



I had an awesome time at my party and felt so privileged to be surrounded by such wonderful people: my parents, brother and sister, aunties and uncles, cousins, friends from primary school, secondary school and even a few from university helped celebrate- including some friends I have picked up along the way! I was very lucky, and after a couple of weeks if getting very angsty and stressful about the whole affair, I am happy to say I made it through okay and had such a wonderful evening :)

My family and I outside the gigantic limousine!

Me with my specially made cake! Asked for cherry blossom because they are one of my favourite ever trees and are so pretty and delicate. Ironically we came back with a cake that had branches the size of trees themselves. Mum and I renamed them "little turds"- but as you can see it did not put me off enjoying the cake!!