Amity Fest // Concert

Hello.

This might be a very short post as I'm writing this on my birthday and don't want to do too much writing, but on Monday I went to Amity Fest in Liverpool, and couldn't wait to share my experience of the show.

If you don't know, Amity Fest was a 3 show tour by the YouTubers Zoella, Niomi Smart, Tanya Burr, Sprinkle of Glitter, Jim Chapman, Pointless Blog, Marcus Butler, Caspar Lee & Thatcher Joe. They did shows in Birmingham, Liverpool and Brighton, and I went to the Liverpool show as I live really close to Liverpool.

The show was definitely worth the 7 hour wait, as everyone on stage was full of energy, and made the show so exciting. They competed in challenges against each other, did Q&As, interviews and just messed around on stage, always keeping the audience involved. Unfortunately I didn't get to meet them but just seeing how they acted on stage showed how grateful they are for everything their subscribers do for them, and I really enjoyed the show.

If they tour again, would you like to go?

A Week in New York City

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I visited NYC for a week in April, and since then I've been completely obsessed with it. I thought today I'd go through my favourite parts of the amazing city, and hopefully inspire a few of you to add it to your bucket list.

Things To Do

The Staten Island Ferry (with a view of The Statue of Liberty)
The first thing we did was get on the Staten Island ferry from Manhattan to (believe it or not) Staten Island. It was amazing to see the view of the famous skyline as the boat drove away from the island, and the main highlight was seeing the Statue of Liberty, something we weren't prepared to go to its separate island to see as there was nothing else on there.

Times Square (at night)

Times Square is absolutely amazing, especially in the evening when the lights light up the whole area. It's hard to fully take in the beauty of it because of how busy everything is, but if one place had to sum up New York City, it'd definitely be Times Square.

Empire State Building  (at night)

The highlight of my trip was definitely watching the sun set from the top of the Empire State Building. Although it's not the tallest building in NYC, the view from the top of the ESB is incredible, and we even saw Barack Obama's car drive through the city, followed by about 10 security cars (I was excited, I love Barack).

Top of the Rock (in the day)
The view from the Rockefeller Centre was absolutely amazing, since you could see lots of the famous landmarks, including the Empire State Building & Central Park. I'd recommend doing this in the day, though, so you can see the view of Central Park.

9/11 Memorial
The 9/11 Memorial is surprisingly quiet considering it's in the middle of Lower Manhattan, and this all adds to the moving atmosphere. I'm very lucky to have been here, and it's a beautiful memorial to everyone who lost their lives in the World Trade Centre. It really opens your eyes to the size of the buildings, and the thousands of lives lost.

Central Park
Only when you visit Central Park do you realise how huge it actually is. There's so many different parts of it, and in our 3 hour tour we only saw about 1 third of the park. I'd definitely recommend a tour of Central Park because you'd probably get lost otherwise. We booked a tour with http://www.cityroverwalks.com and were given a tour by Max (and a Landmark Buildings tour with Rodney), and I'd recommend them to anyone visiting New York.

Places To Eat

Wendy's
To American people, this would be the equivalent of recommending McDonalds, but since I'm English, I was really excited to try a Wendy's. Even though it's hardly restaurant standard, for anyone who's not American, Wendy's is a must.

Grimaldi's
Located at the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, Grimaldi's Pizzeria is one of the most famous pizzerias in New York. I expected it to be that fancy pizza that I don't really like, but it was honestly really good. Although we had to queue for about half an hour to get in. Booking a table would be quite a good idea.

Pershing Square
We went here for breakfast before our Landmark Building tour (the one with Rodney), and it was so nice. It's opposite Grand Central Station, and all the food was lovely (well all the food I tried).

Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts is hardly a meal, but I absolutely loved the donuts here.


I hope you enjoyed this post, as I've been planning it for quite a while and was really excited to finally post it.

Favourite TV Shows

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Truthfully, I'm not that into TV usually, but I do make exceptions for a small handful of shows. Today I thought I'd countdown my 5 favourite TV picks.

Outnumbered

Outnumbered is my absolute favourite thing in the world (notice that I say this about everything that I don't dislike) and always cheers me up. I'm not a huge fan of the middle series', but I think series 1,2 and 5 are hilarious, and I'm so sad that they've stopped making them.

Modern Family

I watch Modern Family on Netflix, and it's honestly so funny. All the characters have a lot of depth to them and it's a realistic & funny portrayal of life with a big family.

Orange Is The New Black

I only recently started watching this, but it's hilarious. There's lots of little stories within the main plot, and it's really interesting to find out the pasts of the characters.

Dance Moms

Dance Moms is definitely my guilty pleasure. I'm not really one for 'reality TV' (if you could call it that), but I find it really interesting for some unknown reason.

24 Hours in A&E

I watch this with my parents, and I find it really interesting to see all the different injuries they deal with, as well as getting to know the doctors.

That's all for this week's Top 5 Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed it!

What's your favourite TV show?

Room Tour

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Firstly I'd like to apologise since this is my first post this week. I was getting a new floor put in, and wasn't in my original room so it was difficult to take photos and actually sit down and write a blog post, but now I've got a new room that I absolutely love, I'm going to make sure I get back into things.

Speaking of my new room, I just finished it today, and thought I'd take some pictures of it (while it's still nice) and share them with you.

*Sorry about the quality of the pictures if they don't seem as good as previous ones, I took these when it was dark outside so there was no natural lighting, and the candles made the lighting look bad*

My personal favourite things in my room are the fairy lights around my windows, and the giant peg holding up some concert tickets. I think the fairy lights make the room look really cosy, and I think the peg is a great idea to make your room a bit more personal. I got the idea from VelvetGh0st, who I've mentioned before in my favourites post, and she had pictures in hers, which is also a good idea!

I hope this helped anyone looking for some bedroom inspiration, or anyone nosy who just wanted to see what I did with it!