Here are some highlights from Ele'e Hen Do in Disneyland Paris.
It was a brilliant trip. I haven't laughed that hard in ages!
Good company and fun!
Day 1 - Thursday: Travel day and Disney Springs
We flew from Birmingham with Veuling - who were good, clean and on time, but the cabin crew were a little rude but as the flight was just an hour - it wasn't that bad.
we arrived and had the rest of the day at Disney Springs - where we shopped, and eat and chilled out ready for a crazy couple of days ahead.
Our hotel was brill - The Kyriad - Click here for a link to it!
We had it for 3 nights, for the 5 of us in a room that sleeps 6 (it had bunk beads x2 and 2x single beds and a good sized bath room) and it worked out as £84 each for the 3 mights. this included wifi and breakfast and transport in and out of the park. Brilliant!
After a fun afternoon at Disney Springs looking at all the amazing stuff in the stores and grabbing come food, we went back to the hotel for an early night, as we wanted to get up at the crack of dawn for our first day in the parks.
Day 2 - Friday: Magic Kingdom
Up early we went for breakfast in the hotel (which was great, tones of choice from a cooked breakfast, cereal or pastries), and then headed on the hotel bus to the Magic kingdom for our fun filled day.
Getting there early meant we walked on to Thunder mountain, and got fastpasss for it right away! That ride was amazing! We loved it!!!
Even though it was a Friday, the park was not as busy as expected so we managed to do all the rides we wanted. It was brilliant!
Sadie tried on pretty much every hat in the park and Lisa had a ho-bo style nap on a bench 1/2 way though the day while we did another ride.
It was a great day that ended in us watching the fireworks (which were lovely - not as good at the Florida one - these were more family friendly I think - not as big/loud). and leaving the park past midnight.
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I have tried changing the colour - making it lighter so I don't see the grey (didn't really like the highlighted look on me), dyeing the hair every month darker (which I love but hey it's annoying and expensive), all to try and hide the grey patch that keeps appearing at my hairline.
So I had an idea, why not embrace the grey!!
So I decided I would beach the strip of hair that is grey - and then colour it grey so when it grows out you don't notice it. Well that was the plan anyway!
So I got some bleach and here we go!
Bleach session 1 -
Popped on the bleach to the bit I wanted to bleach then turn grey-
and put on the attractive plastic cap!
As I had so much dark brown/black dye on it I had it on for a while...
Washed it out and here is what happened....
The roots - where there was my natural colour - went quite blondie - the rest was quite orange.
This was down to the old dark dye in the hair. Oh well!
Looks kinda cool - but a little 90's chav though - looks like fire.
Not really what I wanted so next week I will have to start bleach session 2 which will hopefully lift out the rest of the colour and start to turn the hair white so I can use a silver/grey toner on it to colour it.
This week I will get the hair ready for bleach session 2 by applying coconut oil to it to keep it conditioned - I don't want it breaking into bits later.
The black and white photo above is how I want it to look...
A hard day at work ends with a lush walk with our pups Breeze and Indiana!
Living in the Forest of Dean we are super lucky to have the beautiful forest literally on our doorstep, which is perfect for the pups to run about and let out that crazy cocker spaniel energy!
Today was perfect, sun was out and it was kinda warm
- even went out with no coat. Lol.
I got a little bunch of sticks ready for Breeze- she loves to swim in the ponds (and muddy puddles).
Tell you what though, It's strangely had to find a good stick in the forest.....
Anyway, I found a couple and Breeze did some swimming in the ponds which is her fave thing!
Indiana is not there yet though- she has a paddle but shes not swam yet- she will get there though.
It was lush! A great forest walk with my fur babies!
Serves 4. Only 3.5 Syns a portion - Freezer Friendly.
I Love this recipe! I found it while i was looking for some low Syn Slimming world cooking. I found it on Pintrest - I cant remember where but I believe it was an adaption from a Nigella recipe. Anyway its well yummy - super comforting and great with BBQ foods, as a side dish or with some sausages and salad as a main meal. I also like it on its own for a sneaky lunch at work. Lush! Lou x
Ingredients -
500g Sweet potato (peeled and cut into cubes)
300g dried macaroni
2 tbsp cornflour
500ml skimmed milk
1 tub quark
160g reduced fat cheddar cheese (grated)
1/4 tsp paprika (if you like)
Salt and pepper
Step by Step -
Cut your sweet Potato into chunks
Boil up the potato
Smash up the cooked potato
Cook your pasta in the potato water
Add Quark and 100g to cheese to the smashed potato
Mix well
Add milk and cornflour to a pan and boil.
Mix well and season
Add milk mixture to potato mixture
Mix and add to a casserole dish
Add 60g of cheese to the top.
Season with salt and pepper
Cook in the oven until brown
Serve!
*Don't forget you can portion this up and freeze it for later.
This was the first Slimming World dinner that I cooked from scratch that I had never ever cooked before Slimming World. I was a bit nervous as it sounded posh and complicated but it was so EASY!!! Aaron Loves it with some fresh french stick covered in butter but keeping on plan I have mine with swede mash, but you could do it with rice, potato mash or just on its own. Its brill. Lou x
I super LOVE this chicken curry. Its syn free (which is amazing) and well easy to cook - which is even better! I do a big batch of this each time and freeze it so I always have it ready when I need it. I take it to work and have it on its own or with rice - super filling and always tastes yummy! Aaron loves it as well, so it cant be bad. I added shrooms to mine - as I love them, but you can add wherever speedy veg you want! The more speedy veg the better!! If you try is let me know what you think. Lou x
Ingredients-
Low calorie cooking spray
2 tsp of Garlic powder
2 large onions peeled & finely chopped
1 green pepper, deseeded & chopped in chunks
4 skinless chicken breasts, chopped into chunks
100g chopped mushrooms
500g of Passata
225ml chicken stock 2
1 heaped tsp of medium curry spice
*Fat free natural yogurt to add at the end - if you like it creamy!
Step by Step:
Chop your veg in to chunks
Brown the onions
Brown chicken
Add everything else to the pan
Bring to the boil
Simmer for 40-45 mins
Serve - YUM!
An easy, great tasting beef stew!
Serves 4 - only 1/2 a syn a portion.
I love this recipe its super easy and tastes well good. I love to have it on a chilly Autumn/Winter day. Aaron really likes to have it with crusty bread - but thats not so slimming world friendly so I love having it with Swede mash, rice or just on its own in a big bowl. Amazing! If you make it let me know what you think of it. Lou x
Step by Step:
Cut up all your veg and steak in to chunks
Brown your onions
Add everything else to the pan
Simmer for 1.5 hours
Add gravy granules (and mushrooms if you are adding them in)
Simmer for 20 mins
Serve - Yummers!
