Bank holiday Weekend

This weekend was the early May bank holiday weekend or May day if you prefer. Woop! Three day weekend! And we made it as action packed as we could! It's good to be busy all the time. So here is what we did......

Friday 1st May

This evening a few friends and I had booked a session at Jump Nation, Manchester's new trampoline park. There are 139 trampolines all joined together, awesome! Unfortunately, you are not allowed to take cameras on to the trampolines so this is the only photo I took. :( Rob managed to sneak his mini camera on though and captured a few videos. Our friend Lewis however was not as stealthy and got told off for taking photographs on the trampoline. Oh well. Anyway, we booked the last session of the day at 9 pm thinking there may be less children around at that time, but no it was still super busy! The staff later informed us that Fridays are usually the busiest days. We had fun though, I hadn't been on a trampoline, well a proper trampoline in about 20 years. It was crazy! The 1 hour session is not too expensive at £8.95 and you can buy an additional hour for £5 with the prices being slightly reduced for children. However, the first time you go you must buy special trampoline socks for £1.50 but you keep them and use them again so it's not really a waste of money. If you want to check it out then this is the website http://www.jumpnation.com/ and I would highly recommend it. They also run fitness classes! Bouncy bouncy! :) 

Jump Nation Manchester! 139 trampolines all joined together.

After the trampoline session we re-hydrated ourselves at new bar called the dockyard near our friends apartment in the city center. And believe me you do work up a sweat with all that bouncing! Just make sure you wear the appropriate clothing, which is not jeans and a jumper. So I was definitely looking forward to a well deserved drink.

The dockyard is actually quite a nice pub it is minimally decorated with a sort of warehouse style finish but offers plenty of seating and a wide selection of beers at reasonable prices, with the house ale being the cheapest at £2.95 a pint. We arrived at the pub shortly before last orders so it was fairly quiet and we easily found a seat to enjoy our drinks and a quick chat before heading home to bed.

The Dockyard, beer time!

Saturday 2nd May

Today started off as a fairly last day, we lay in and just chilled out until around lunch time. Rob had allowed himself one lazy day this weekend and then decided that was a waste of time. So we thought it might be fun to head over and visit my family and play with dogs, maybe strap a go pro to them and see what they get up when they are off the lead or just see the world through their eyes. Unfortunately, it wasn't as successful as we had hoped because as soon as we arrived in Skem at my family home it started to rain and the sun disappeared behind the clouds. So we thought we'd wait it out and wait for the rain to ease. During that time we enjoyed a cup of coffee with a few biscuits and just played with the dogs inside the house. This kept us entertain for a while but once the rain had stopped we strapped the go pro to Max, my parents labrador and headed out for a walk. Max got to wear the go pro rather than Miya (my family's pug) as he is a little more adventurous and doesn't just follow you around, as for the majority of the walk Miya was hanging around either mine or my brother Jamie's feet. Ridiculous! 

So of the camera footage we got from the dog was pretty funny, as we hadn't realised he had actually gone in the river until we played it back. But for the most part, the video we got from the dog camera was quite bumpy due to the camera bouncing around too much on the dogs back. So we couldn't really use any of the footage. Max didn't seem to mine wearing the camera so if we bought him an actual dog harness I bet we could get some decent movies from him! Yay! Then maybe Max could start his own YouTube channel, as everyone seems to be doing that these days. I, myself now have one video on YouTube. Go Me! :).

So after we had dried the dogs down and fed them their tea we fed ourselves some pizza before heading back to Manchester to play some crazy golf. I'd invited my brother and sister along but I don't think they had the motivation to come all the way to Manchester for an evening. It's not actually that far but oh well. 

Dan and Harri gave us a lift to Paradise Island (mini golf) where we met Amy and Lewis for some golf time! I was useless, I don't know why I am so rubbish at golf I think it's because I have no patience, that is my problem. I did get two hole in ones though! Woop! (probably just luck!). Anyway, I broke my camera this evening, it started having some issues with the lens were it wouldn't retract properly after zooming in. My poor little camera! Oh well, It wouldn't have made too much difference this evening anyway as the mini golf place was far too dark to get any decent pictures. Meh!

Sunday 3rd May

Today started off with a quick trip to John Lewis in the Trafford Centre in an attempt to either get a new camera or get it repaired. Although they agreed with me there was an issue with my lens it would have to be sent off for repair as they don't do it in store. Gutted! I was told it usually takes about 12 days to get fixed. Hopefully, it won't take that long I need my camera! Oh well, I guess I still have my phone anyway. That will have to do for now. :)

A couple of my friends were visiting Manchester this weekend so I met them at the pub for a few beers whilst Rob went to the Skateboarding park, Beast Ramps. I think he just went there to take photographs and videos of the more professional skaters to add to his newly acquired YouTube channel and he is currently making a video on how to have a productive weekend. Silly Boy. It keeps him entertained anyway. I on the other hand sat in the sun catching up with Jon, Steph, Andy and Sarah who I hadn't seen in months maybe not even at all this year! Crazy, time goes so fast! I really need to make sure I stay in touch with people. I have no idea where the time goes, it just seems to be accelerating each year at an even faster pace.

My friends had other plans and had pre-booked to go bowling so after two small beers I headed back home to meet Rob. However, Rob had not returned and was not answering his phone. When he did finally get back in touch with me it was to inform me that his car had been locked in the climbing wall's car park as that had closed two hours before the skate park and he was now going to have to walk home. He had parked in the climbing wall's car park as it appeared safer than parking on the street, which I guess is sensible as its not the best area of Manchester around there. Hopefully, this will teach him next time check the closing times of places but I doubt it.

Rob being late home actually worked in my favour this evening as it meant by the time he got home he was starving so we didn't have to cook and we went across the road to Wasabi for Sushi! I was sooooo full after 6 plates of veggie sushi! So full! :)

Sushi Time!

Monday 4th May

All weekend we had been meaning to go mountain biking at Llandegla forest in North Wales. Today was meant to be the best day of the weekend for it, weather wise anyway. And I am glad we waited as today was perfect. It was the sunniest day of the weekend with not a rain cloudy insight. I hadn't been mountain biking in almost two years and Rob hadn't been in about 18 months, so Rob promised we would take it easier. He actually kept that promise this time as we stuck to the blue route. So I was happy, as the blue is not as challenging or as long as the red but it is still loads of fun. It was a nice way to get back into it after so long. It probably took us around an hour to complete the route, which was much quicker than we had expected so Rob played on the dirt jumps afterwards! Fun times! :) 

Crazy!!!

Before heading back to Manchester to head out for pizza at Crazy Pedros for our friend Natalie's birthday, we popped in to see Rob's parents and clean our mountain bikes as we have nowhere to clean our bikes in our apartment building. Sad times. Well, Rob did the cleaning while I just chilled out. Nice and easy. 

Crazy Pedros is a new pizza parlour in Manchester and has happy hour everyday from 5-9 pm in which you can get a whole 14"pizza for £7.50, which is awesome. Another perk is if you don't finish it you can get it to go, which is useful if you want pizza for lunch the next day too. The pizzas are really tasty and you can adapt their menu to your dietary requirements, as they were able to make me a cheeseless pizza! Delish! :)

Hope you had a great weekend! :)

Samx