Hellion Lakes Hotel, Golf and Spa - Daventry.

Day 1 of my and Sam's 

Fifth anniversary celebrations.

I used Groupon to have a look at deals for me and Sam to do while we were in Royal Leamington Spa. They had an offer for £25 which caught my eye the deal included use of the gym, jacuzzi, steam room and 1 hours ten pin bowling. If available we could have 20% off a spa treatment but there was no space when I phoned to book and we werent really that bothered.

The hotel was in the countryside. I have never drove down actual country lanes so it was.....erm...... lets just say different haha, I don't think Sam enjoyed it as much as I did. We drove past it at first but we pulled into a side lane and turned around, we pulled up to the hotel and honestly the photo's online do it no justice, it took my breathe away. 

We walked in the this posh hotel sticking out like sore thumbs in our gym clothes. We spoke to a lovely lady at the main reception who pointed us in the right direction to the leisure reception. We arrived and there was nobody around but a sign said to call a number using the phone for assistance. Shortly after calling the number a very chirpy man can strolling along ready to help, He made us feel extremely comfortable.

We signed in and he showed us the changing room, gave us some slippers then showed us around the gym. Me and Sam spent time on the bikes, cross trainer, rowing machines and different weights which was a first for me. My arms ached so much but I kind of liked it. We then got changed into our swimming costumes and headed to the swimming pool which was fun, Sam is not a fan of swimming pools but he came in and we dunked our heads under the water trying to look at each other and we swam a little. We then hopped into the jacuzzi which was roasting hot but that didn't stop us staying in there for roughly 30 - 40 minutes.

It took me almost an hour to get dressed I had a mini melt down in the changing rooms because it was so hot in there, my shower cubicle flooded and I had to do my make up twice. Sam was waiting outside the changing room for 25 minutes...ooooppppps. Once I emerged from my hot hell haha we went to the bar to redeem out free cups of tea and a danish pastry. They were both yummy.

It was now roughly 6.30pm and our bowling was booked for 7pm but I thought we should ask if we could bowl instead of sitting around for half an hour. The man at the leisure reception let us go straight down. The room had four little lanes and uv lights like Tenpin's cosmic bowling. Sam chose to have the barriers down for the first game and I only scored 37, the next two games I had the barriers up and I got 96 and 84. Sam won all 3 games unfortunately and I got a little bit moody haha.

It was the end of our evening at Hellion Lake Hotel and it was amazing. I had so much fun and I would totally                                                         go back.

Have you ever been?

Becky xx

Over the last few days

Tuesday - Thursday 

My week started on Tuesday with a family fun afternoon head of to my main blog to read that entry:  http://memyselfandcrash.blogspot.co.uk/
I then got my self ready to go to work, thats right work it was my first day back and my gosh I was nervous and excited.  I drove there and it took me roughly half and hour, I went a new way which cuts off 90% of traffic as it is all down side roads. I pulled up in the car park and took a deep breathe.

  Preview of my Blog about family fun in the park.

I walked up to the back entrance and pretended I was ok. I pressed the buzzer, a new member of staff called Moet opened the door for me. Marc (the manager) was half in and half out of the cellar so I shouted hello, I went straight into the staff room to put my shirt on and sorted my bottle out and Spencer came in and said a hello (he is quite shy). I walked out of the staff room and was greeted by G and Bradley who both said I look well and gave me big hugs. I went into the managers office and Louise, Lyndsey and Caroline were all in there chatting.

My shift started and I walked to reception, The bowl was sooooo busy I jumped straight onto reception and started work. I started booking people in and changing over shoes, handling complaints and giving out redemption tickets prizes. Some things had changed but all the staff helped me pick it up. By 10 o'clock I was pooped I had, had my break and I was tired and my feet and back hurt soooo bad. IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT. I got back to Sam's at roughly 1.30am. 

My snap chat from my first day back at work.

On wednesday me and Sam had a little trip to Wylde Green in Birmingham to have some lunch and look around the shops. The sun was beaming and we went to Costa coffee to have a nice cold drink and a little chit chat. We went into a card shop and I got his and my Mums birthday card, then we headed to Subway for some lunch. I ordered a new beef and chorizo melt but they didn't have any chorizo so I opted for my favourite italian BMT on cheese and herb bread, I have mine with cheese and toasted,lettuce, onion,
pickles and jalapenos with southwest sauce. We didn't have any crisps or cookies we just had a bottle of water. Sam had a new pulled chicken sub (it tasted better than mine but I wouldn't tell him that).

We went back to Sam's house and ate our subway and then we watched Breaking bad, we are only only season 3 but I really love it. We got half way through when Sam's friend called Daz came round to play Witcher on Playstation 4. Being an amazing girlfriend I was like turn this off and play your game..... I was so bored haha I caught up on my Youtube videos and read a magazine I bought earlier, then I decided to go home.




Thursday (I am writing this blog on Thursday night) I watched a little bit of Once upon a time on Netflix until Mum woke up. We then decided to go food shopping which we all know I love. To avoid spending to much money on food I don't need I went shopping down the road for birthday cards and presents for my friends who's birthday in two - three weeks. We came back from Shopping and I cleaned my bedroom and my car, I have had a productive day today.

My nice shiny car 

The gift bags full of presents for my friends.

                                         

I bought this juice Thursday(today) It is epic.

I am looking forward to tomorrow I am going for a meal with Sam's family to celebrate Sam's birthday. eeek.

Becky xx

Tenpin Bowling - My work.

Tenpin Bowling

I work in a bowling alley and my gosh I love it. I signed my contract 19th February 2013. It was busy and I was wearing leggings and boots with a bright pink work shirt, this was incorrect uniform clearly making a great first impression (uniform was actually jeans and trainers). This was my first job back after having cancer so I was super nervous.

The people there are so lovely and my confidence grew every single day. I worked hard and trained even harder learning reception, bar, diner and became a lane host/party host. By february 2014 I felt good where I was and applied for unit supervisor, unfortunately I was unsuccessful but I was aloud to learn some unit supervisor bits and pieces from the Deputy Manager Lyndsey. 

I worked my bottom off trying to proove I would have been a good unit supervisor, I was already staff representative. By the end of November 2014 I became ill again with Thyrotoxicosis/ graves disease and had 182 days on the sick. I spent most of this time waiting for appointments and not really leaving the flat, taking beta blockers so I didn't have a heart attack.

It is now May 2015 and I had my return to work meeting with my General Manager Marc. It went really well and we both agreed I need to take it easy working two evening shifts to start of with. I agreed with everything he said and I am going to take it easy but I am very money motivated. 

I cannot wait to go back and see all my friends and get my confidence back because it has dropped not having worked for 6 months. It is weird because when I first started working here it was just and inbetween job to get me back on my feet. I had no idea I would love it as much as I do. 

Sorry for rambling on but I want to take you on my working adventures as well as every other adventure!!

Becky xx