It's the Season

Hello!

It is that wonderful time of the year. Christmas time! I absolutely adore Christmas, the lead up to it, the decorations, just every single detail. As well as the food. It all makes me so happy to be alive. Here in New Zealand (as well as the whole Southern hemisphere!) Christmas is a bit different. Guess what, it's also summer time. Generally Christmas is spent in the sunshine. A stark contrast to other countries in the world - after all Christmas is associated with snow, warm snugly clothes, hot drinks and infamous fireplaces. But no here it has to be 25 degree's out. Oh I'd love a winter Christmas, much more 'traditional', maybe someday, UK are you ready?

 Over anything though I love my summer Christmas's. After all it is what I've come to know my whole life. It makes me feel special and privileged. Which I am extremely thankful for. I'll hopefully do some Christmas posts in the next few weeks because why not! There will also be some exciting summer post's too. I can't wait to share my summer holiday experiences with you.

Dani. x

Zoo Day

So a few weeks back (as in over a month sorry, I've been busy!)  my cute family and I went to the zoo together! It was such a nice day to go. I enjoyed it so much because I haven't been in years. I'm assuming you all know what a zoo is? Exactly, no explanation needed. Although I suppose you could say all zoo's are the same, Wellington zoo seems special and of course awesome! Personally I think it strays away from the conventional zoo, or maybe that's just me talking. I'll share with you some of the lovely highlights of the trip! This post will be much more interesting with photos so it will be very photo heavy. But those kinds of post's are always the best, right?

The giraffes were definitely my favourite - they were so friendly and came up so close to us. I even managed a cheeky selfie with one!

Just a few other highlights; a yummy chocolate milkshake, what I wore - a cute lil' blouse with a peter pan collar and shorts.

I also really enjoyed seeing the lions. They were beautiful! I adore cats so I adored these big cats. Who knows, maybe it's my South African showing through.

Finally I've gotten around to this post! I hope you all enjoyed the photos, I edited em' all nice for you.

Dani. x

Hello!

Hi everyone! Just a short post with a difficult question to ask! Should I keep my original header or use this new one. What do ya'll think? 

My current one. 

New one? Yeah or Nah?

Leave a comment. Thanks! Dani. xx

Part two: Best Night of My Life

((Read, part one here))

Before the concert we bought some merchandise. Well I bought quite a bit actually, a shirt, wristband, tour programme, and my friends mum was very kind and bought me some 'signed' photographs and a keyring. It was cool being able to purchase all of these hours before the concert so we didn't have to rush to the merch stand afterwards!

CBS Canterbury arena, Christchurch.

All of a sudden it was time for the concert or at least to arrive at the venue. The line was extremely long and there were literally thousands of girls everywhere. It was in all honesty a bit scary. Luckily there wasn't much pushing because everyone had guaranteed seats. Waiting outside for the doors to open was chilled out but there was still a buzzing atmosphere. At one point it started raining, and it was awesome because there was such a pretty glow and a rainbow in the sky. It made me smile and the crowd seemed to be in good spirits.

My friend Olivia (left) and I (right). This is what I wore
to the concert. Factorie dress, NZ$40.

Me (left) and Olivia (right) all dolled up!

I won't go into detail about everything that happened at the concert, I'd hate to bore you all. But I will tell you how amazing it was. We had really great seats (the photo's don't give them justice) and my friend and I could see them so well! At one point Harry totally waved at me. Maybe not, but he waved in my direction.

The concert was beyond my expectations. The whole thing start to finish was incredible. Their support act Five Seconds Of Summer did so well too. The 1D boys are so talented and I am so proud of them. 2 years and I saw them, I have a giant grin on my fave right now just thinking about it. Being only 16 I haven't had many memorable experiences but it was in no doubt the best night of my life. I've seen them live, it's so cool to be able to say that. Here's a few pictures;

After not receiving tickets when they came here last year just made me appreciate it more. I'd like to say it was a life changing experience, it wasn't. Although I saw my five favourite singers in the whole world and it meant and still means a lot to me. Every time I hear any of their songs I smile because I experienced it. 

It was so much fun! The trip and the concert. I'll never forget it. I'm so glad to be apart of this fandom. Everyone united. The lads sang their hearts out for the fans. I am absolutely so proud of One Direction and I wish them so much more successes because they deserve it all. Making millions of people happy is really something. 

Love life, Dani. xx

One Direction Concert Part One: The trip

Well, well. Here I am. I am back! I know it's taken me week's to finally write this post, I apologise, but emotions have taken over. Oh and that thing that takes up all my time; school. Anyway, how is everyone? I am very good right now, I'll let you know the reason!

Where do I start? If anyone actually read my previous One Direction concert build up posts you've probably figured out what this is about (if you read the title as well), well done! If you haven't this post is all about the  trip leading up to the best night of my life; THE ONE DIRECTION CONCERT. Brace yourselves this may be a very long post. It may contain a stream of emotions. If you are bored you'll have to wait for the next post which will be 100% concert, I promise!

Starting from the very beginning.. The journey there was so enthralling I'll let you know how it went. The day before the concert we had to travel to Blenheim. The place where we stayed. We as in my friend, her family and I. Our mode of transport was the cook strait ferry, the blue bridge one (the staff were really nice!). For those of you that don't know what that is it is a boat that travels between New Zealand's North and South island. We couldn't have picked a worse day to travel it. It was stormy and obviously the sea was very rough. I can't even begin to describe the feeling, it was simply awful. It was like going up in an elevator, y'all know that feeling? Well imagine it over and over again! Luckily I was okay and wasn't sea sick. It was more just anxiety because it was scary to say the least. The size of the waves were incredible, I thought we were going to be swallowed up. It has really made it clear about how violent and vast the ocean is. An experience that I won't forget, even though I'd like to. To be fair the trip back was actually very pleasant. It was sunny and we sailed smoothly! Which was lovely because we had a nice view.

Look at how poop the weather was when we left!

The Sounds! Look how pretty they were on the trip back.

Picton on the trip back!

After having a good nights sleep we awoke to excitement. My friend Olivia turned to me and said "Concert Day!". I nearly died. I couldn't believe it, I'd waited so long and the day had finally arrived. After having a rough start (literally) we were hoping for the best.  A bit of unlucky always brings luck? Well I'd like to think so. Although it did take us four hours to get to Christchurch. There's not much to write about the drive there and siteseeing in Christchurch so que photos! It was hearbreaking seeing the damage in the cbd from the earthquake. The cathedral was shocking (last photo). It's so much more surreal when you're standing right there and not looking at it on t.v.

 I've decided to do this post for the trip and then another one for the actual concert (and post concert emotions), which will be up soon! Thanks for being lovely and keep a look out for my next few posts. I have a few exciting ones lined up. 

Dani x