If you hadn't noticed, I recently (well, last week) had a week off both work and blogging. It was something I had planned for a while, mostly because I knew my boyfriend (Alex) would be off, so it would be nice to get away and do stuff together. The first weekend, we drove the three and a half hour drive up to Bradford to visit Alex's parents. We planned to stay here for the week so we could house-sit whilst his parents were on holiday (and also to look after his mega-cute rabbits!). The weekend was a bit of a chill-out weekend, so we spent most of it in bed catching up on some much needed sleep!

Monday

We finally ventured out of the house and took a trip to the local IKEA even though we didn't need anything. I didn't buy anything at all, except a 50p ice-cream (omg they are amazing!). We got back to the house in the afternoon, and decided to binge watch Friends, because that's how I watch Friends, before going on a brief night out with Alex's old school friends.

Tuesday

At the weekend we had booked tickets to see Finding Dory at the Everyman in Leeds, because who doesn't want to cuddle up with their boyfriend on a comfy sofa at the cinema?! It was such a good film, and if you've already seen it: how cute was baby Dory?! 

To celebrate a year since our first date, he took me to Revolution (or Revs) for dinner and some cocktails. We somehow managed to get the four cocktails we ordered for free! Wooo! 

We then went back to the house and slobbed out after filling our bellies with food, and spent the evening watching Spectre (because I hadn't seen it!).


I didn't actually realise until I dragged poor Alex around half of Leeds' shopping centre just how amazing the shopping up there was! It was tonnes better than Birmingham, with nicer and bigger shops! So I'll definitely be going on a proper shopping trip up there again!

Wednesday

We had planned to go further afield, but the weather wasn't its best, so we stayed pretty local. We took a trip to Ilkley Moor, and even in crazy wind and (some) rain, this is the view we got!

Alex then took me to the local pub before we went back to his parents'. 

Later on, we had to drop his rabbits off at what I call Bunny Hotel, because we weren't around the next two days. I sat with them on my lap for the journey, and they were both shaking so much because they didn't like the drive and it was so sad! :(

Thursday

York has always been a place I've wanted to see for a long time now, and I finally got to go!

We went into the Minster to have a short look around, but we didn't pay to go in, we just looked from the foyer. As Alex had a Starbucks giftcard, he took me to Starbucks for a bit, before we moved onto another coffee shop, and eventually ended up window shopping.

We then walked around the city walls (the whole way) which took ages, but was so worth it. My health app on my iPhone told me we had walked 21,000 steps by the end of it, which was around 5 miles!

Friday

Friday was our final chill-out day before heading back, so we decided to have a full on Friends binge for around 6 hours. We then took the 4 hour drive down to Hertfordshire to see Alex's best friend for her birthday, before going on a night out!

What will you do on your week off work?