alana goes away

 this room is so full...lets just see if we can fit oooone more wafer-thin mint in there... dinner for 50 hahaha whaT louvre snuck in this lot hall of mirrors ooo and suddenly my £6 'ornate' ikea mirror doesnt seem quite so fancy...this is above a bed fyi my awesome ma margie gets her bike on hahahaha, now this cracked me the hell up. who let (name) drive the chariot. stuckinapond woops The next day mum ventured out to get us some coffees in the morning, and came back with two espressos looking rather confused...'why are they so small Lan...what is this..does it even have milk? or sugar?' as she tries a sip 'ueuuugh, what if I put mine in yours and you just drink both expressos' at which point I was like maaaaaaaam did you just call them expressos, like, express?? It was pretty funny, cos it's espresso ma...Anywho we caught the train out to Versailles to check out the palace. We planned on going early...

matty havin a fly around the backyard hah

ma outside notre dame the little wooden replica. im pretty sure i took this exact photo last time too  lil ma gettin out in the world! So, MUM!!! Mum came over for her big holiday a few weeks ago :) I'd been looking forward to it since she booked in January!!!! It was so good to see you ma! I miss miss missssss you now tho, sadface.  I got up at the early old time of 5am to drive out to Heathrow to pick her up, and in the quickest time anyone has ever got through border security/baggage claim/customs, she was out! Fast forward from that day (Monday) to Thursday, and we were up again at the crack of dawn to get the Euro Star to Paris. And what a way to go, so easy, and I really like travelling by train. I did nap BUT it was so much easier than fluffing around with the airports. And we got a bit of scenery.  Straight off the bat when we got to Paris mums taking photos of the police or guards or whatever with their machine guns hahah. There was al...