Weekend away!!

Howdy!! (WARNING:THIS POST IS PHOTO HEAVY).

So it has been a couple of weeks since I last posted, so sorry about that! I have been totally busy with various things but I have taken some time out tonight to write! Firstly, big thanks to my  best chummy, Danielle (http://danidarling16.blogspot.com/) for helping me make my header! Tell me what you think! :))

So, last weekend my Mum, grandparents and Uncle travelled up to this cute little area called Castle Point, it was about a three hour drive from where Mum and I live so in the car we just rocked out to Westlife. Sorry not sorry. The day we got there, we headed straight for the beach and we spent a bit of time just exploring around writing stuff in the sand. After that we went to the place we were staying at and just chilled, read and had dinner for the rest of the night. I have been so busy with helping Dad in the weeks leading up to his wedding and studying and being very stressed for my practise exams that I almost forgot how to relax!! So it was awesome to just be able to do nothing and not feel bad about it!

The next day was a Saturday and the warmest I had felt in so so long!! We got up and had an amazing cooked breakfast then spent the day tiki-touring around the place and climbing to the top of the lighthouse which ended up only taking about twenty minutes! And while we were tiki-touring of course we got lost along the way, my Uncle was reading off the wrong map oops!! It ended up fine though because we got to see places that I would never had seen if we didn't! Also I didn't bring my phone along with me so it was nice not to be constantly be checking all my social media all the time! Again at night we just all chilled out, watched the rugby and played some very aggressive table tennis. :Lots of good memories were made!!

The next day we got up and had another amazing cooked breakfast then my Mum and I said our goodbyes too the family and we took a short drive to Carterton where we had a look around a little market. It was so cute but unfortunately I could not get many photos of the stalls because it was not really appropriate. :( But I got to try a V (a kind of energy drink) slushie. Not gonna lie, it was disgusting hah! Then Mum and I took a spontaneous detour to Martinborough. This quaint town is very well known for its wineries, there were so many of them! But Mum and I just wandered around took a look at the gorgeous little shops. :))

                            See the couple making out behind me? Hahahaa. #ThirdWheel.

 

So after this we took a cruisy trip back to Wellington grabbing lunch on the way, back to reality!! I had such an awesome weekend, I am so thankful of my amazing family. :')

Talk soon, Shannon x

First Love

Howdy! So this isn't the kind of content I would usually post but I am pretty proud of this piece and I had a lot of fun writing this. :)) Please let me know if you enjoyed this because I have a Taylor Swift memoir that I may post in the near future too. Thank you, enjoy xx

I am sixteen, I am beautiful but lonely. Slowly getting known for my Doc Marten and dress combination, paired with my cardigan I got second hand a few years back. Mum hates that cardigan and she has good reason to. I wear it with everything, whether it matches or not. That cardigan feels like home, a familiar sight in my forever changing world. I don’t know what love is, for months I thought it was the feeling you got when you held a concert ticket for the first time or discovering that a long time acquaintance would turn out to be the best thing and best friend I could ever ask for. Turns out that was just having a passion, and a soul mate. I found out that these things weren't love when the concert ended and my best friend got a boyfriend. I don’t like to think about love because the main things that come to mind is my parents broken relationship and how my grandparents don’t sleep in the same bed any more. But sometimes when I am comfortably full of my favourite foods and I'm allowing myself to over think, I think of you. I think of when you saved me from the kids that didn't know right from wrong and the teachers that should have known right from wrong. Years later I realized that all that didn't matter, what did matter was that you saved me from myself. I think of your Mother, treating me like her own; telling me that I was the daughter she never did have. But over anything, I think about how you’re the only reason I attempted skateboarding. It reminds me of you and your old and shredded up board that you were still so proud of. Five years, many tears and a song about you later, you’re no longer around to help me fight my battles. You ignore me now and I always thought you were the one boy that would never do that to me. I walk away from you breathing funny because your best friend and your Mother always acknowledge me but you just stare into space thinking of anything but me, us. I also thought that to be in love you had to be loved back. Today I realized that isn't always the case. I love you but where are you?