Tuesday, 24 January 2017

January Updates~

Yahalloooo~ (^ _ ^)/

This is my first blog this year! (・о・)
So I suppose I should start by wishing you all a..

Happy [LATE] New Year!

I hope you all had a great start to 2017 and I hope you all have a wonderful year~! ^^ 

As for me...I suppose this year has been fairly average so far ^^
On Saturday the 7th of January, I went the the Warner Bros. Studio Tour for Harry Potter (for the second time XD) which was amazing! 
It was me, my mum, my sister, mine and my sister's two friends, my sister's friend and her boyfriend and my mum's friend, so... A LOT of people went :,) Me and my sister's friend spent pretty much the whole day together (I was surprised about that since I thought she'd be with my sister most of the time!) which was fun because we also spoke a lot about Yuri!!! on Ice so yey! >ω< About half way through, I found my mum, her friend and mine and my sister's two friends and we continued around together which was good! We had SO much fun! It was seriously a great day! And because we went during Winter this time, the giant castle model at the end of the tour was all covered in snow! It was crazy gorgeous ♥ Snow was also decorated a bit around the tour in general~
Outside where the tour meets it's half way point, there was fake snow falling down which was super pretty as well! ^ω^
I'll include a few of my favourite pictures I took that day for you to see~! ^^

Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape's actual costumes! *ω*

The Clock Tower Pendulum ♥

Me and my two besties ♥ (I scribbled out their faces just in case they didn't want to be shown) ^^

Half way onto Platform 9 3/4 ;D

On the Hogwarts Express >ω< (my face in this picture had me laughing for ages) :,)

Diagon Alley 

The 1:24 scale model of Hogwarts Castle ♡

It looks absolutely gorgeous covered in snow ;ω;

So, as you can see from the pictures, I had a VERY awesome day! *ω*
..and went a bit too crazy in the gift shop ^^;

Early last week I went down to Wales to visit one of my best friends ^^
Since we're online friends, I don't see her often and I've only met her once before;; But this time I went down to see her for a few days and I had a lot of fun! :3
I travelled down alone and had to do a few train swaps which I've never done before! I was so nervous, but I managed to make it there safely and make it back safely! ^^ ..well, sort of :,) On the way back, I almost missed one train in Cardiff and actually did miss my train in Birmingham... But I still got home safely, even if just a little later than I originally intended :,)
Unfortunately while I was there, I wasn't very well;;; We were planning to go shopping but because I felt so ill, we didn't go out :< We ended up having a gaming and anime day instead, though! And, of course, that was a great and fun alternative! >ω<

In smaller news...
I'm getting a PS4 tomorrow (hopefully)! *ω* I've been contemplating the thought of getting one for a while, but what pushed me to make my final decision was the fact that Tales of Berseria isn't getting a western release on the PS3 like most Tales of games do;;; And I wasn't going to miss my chance to play a Tales of game, so I had no choice but to buy a PS4! >A<
But it's okay :3 There are quite a few PS4 games I want to play and some coming out soon that I definitely want to try! ^^ I'm especially excited about playing Life is Strange (I actually played through the first two chapters with my friend in Wales and I've been pining for the rest ever since!) and I am Setsuna which looks beautiful~ ♡ ..so YAY! >ω<
I've also been enjoying the Winter 2017 anime season! ^^
My particular favourites are Tales of Zestiria the X 2nd Season, Little Witch Academia (TV) and Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu: Sukeroku Futatabi-hen 
As for series I'm not too crazy about... Kuzu no Honkai is definitely in the lead there > < It's just ridiculously depressing, really odd plot and not one of the characters, in my opinion, are likeable > < Also ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka and Seiren aren't great either.. ^^;
But good outnumber the bad, me thinks! :3

Aaaaaaaaaand... I think that's all I have to say for now! ^^
So I shall be off :3
..also ACCA is out now, so I wanna watch that~ See if it's getting any better :,)

Thank you for reading and I hope you all have a great day~! :3

BYESIES~! c:
                         xoxo~