The Vamps (20/06/15)

Hello There,

As mentioned in my last post I recently saw the Vamps at Scarborough Open Air Theatre. It was my first ever time going to this venue and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I hadn't expected it to be the best experience as there is a lake between the stage and seats, but it was amazing, especially as it was outdoors but you still had seats, which turned out great as the sun decided to come out for the concert so it got a bit warm. The gates opened about half an hour before the gig started so we had chance to get a drink and get comfy before the first act came on.

Hometown

These were the first support act of the night and were absolutely amazing! I found them about a month ago when booking another concert and instantly fell in love with their music and well them.  I enjoyed every song and got some very funny looks for singing along to their own songs, not that I minded as I absolutely love this band.

Bit blurry but I love this band!!

The Tide

I wasn't that excited to see these as I had also looked them up and didn't think they'd be that great. They surprised me however as they were amazing. My favourite part was definitely their cover of 'shut up and dance with me' that we happened to hear as they were sound checking.

The Tide- well two of.

Union J

I absolutely love union j so they were just amazing!! There's not really much more that I can say other than I love them! I was super happy too because George was actually there for a change, he's  been ill the last two times I saw him!

Josh was there too but I haven't got a picture of all of them :(

The Vamps

The Vamps were amazing as you can imagine they sung all there amazing songs plus some brilliant covers. They covered My Chemical Romances 'teenagers' and Sum 41s .... It was brilliant. The encore was even more amazing as they came out and slowed down a song before speeding it back up again.

Encore!!

The Vamps!!

If it was up to me I would happily go and see this exact concert again as it was that amazing! Here's to the next concert!

Leigh x



 

A Weekend Away (20/06/15-21/06/15)

Hi There,

As from the title of this blog you can probably tell that I've had some time to myself and have been away for the weekend with my best friend, my sister and her boyfriend. We went to Scarborough and stayed overnight in a hotel on the north bay side. There's not loads to do on this side but I was going to Scarborough Open Air Theatre to see The Vamps as it was my birthday present (a separate blog will follow for the concert). We made the most of our time and had a wonderful weekend despite the rain that seemed to follow us wherever we went.

We made the two hour journey and checked into our hotel straight away, me instantly getting changed as I was dressed for warm summery weather, which is not at all what we were met with. And then headed off on the search for some food, this turned out to be a fair struggle however as there was only one restaurant, which was fairly expensive, and a fish and chip shop, which was packed. We carried on walking down the sea front past some very pretty looking beach huts and found ourselves at the sea life centre.

I love these beach huts!

The sea life centre was good but for what was there was very over priced, we were very looking to have two adult goes free vouchers from the side of Kellogg's cereal boxes, I've been collecting these for my London trip next year. We headed for food as soon as we got in an were very disappointed by what we had. Three of us had burgers and they were not very nice to say the least. Then we headed off walking round the centre looking and reading about all different fish. And sea life. We then entered the penguin part where you literally got to walk through the enclosure, that was pretty cool!

Then we headed to the seals where one seemed to be sunbathing even though there was not sun and another was showing off spraying water everywhere.

After that we were done and headed to Crazy Golf, which we got free entry too from our Sea Life Tickets. It certainly wasn't easy but at least I didn't come last!

The Sea Life Center.

After we'd finished at Sea Life we decided to go for a walk. This walk turned out to be much longer than I had anticipated and we ended up walking up to Scarborough castle and all around that (for anyone who doesn't know Scarborough castle is on the other side to sea life and up two massive hills). I can't say as I was too amazed when we got there as I am not a massive fan of history and quite a lot of it had been destroyed in war. Then it was time to head back down to the concert.

A panorama from the castle.

Sunday was a lot more chilled for us, my sisters boyfriend driving us to the other side where we got some waffles, which were really nice, and played in an arcade for ages. We won lots of tickets! And put them all together to get multiple prizes. We the. Did a bit of shopping buying the usual rock for everyone and some 'thanks for looking after the dog' fudge for my mum and dad. Then decided we'd head back as there wasn't much more to do and we were all very tired.

It was a lovely weekend and I'd love to go back again for the weekend as it was really fun. 

Leigh x