coffee shop chats

hiya! how are you?

I met up with one of my oldest besties, Mimi today. I have seen a fair amount of her over the holidays, and it has been lovely catching up. Mimi has been there for me through a lot of things in my life and I don't honestly know what I would do without her!

We met up for lunch in a charming cafe in the not so nice Shirley High Street. To be quite honest, it doesn't fit in at all with the abundance of charity shops, banks and polish supermarkets! But it is a little gem and makes you forget you are in grey, drizzily Shirley for a small while.

Mimi is incredibly lucky as she is visiting the states in the summer for 3 weeks, three!! I'm insanely jealous as ever since my family went when I was 7 I have been itching to go back. It's got me thinking about my future. When I finish uni, I would love to have saved enough money to go out to the USA with my boy for at least 3 weeks. I want to see New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, California, Boston, Las Vegas, Chicago and Florida.

Of course, I imagine Florida would be a trip in itself. I know for definite that when I have children, I want to take them to the magic of disney because it really is a once in a lifetime experience. So, I think that if (and hopefully when!) myself and Matthew go, we will see all the sights of the big places such as NYC, maaaaybe spend a few days in disney and do anywhere decent on the east coast! I am so uneducated in the states/places in America, all I know is that I want to see as much as possible!

Ideally, there would be three trips - east coast, west coast and disney. Then again, I would love to go to disney without children, to experience the magic again for myself without having to run around with baby wipes and suncream! So maybe 3 trips are still in order, with an east coast/disney trip combined, a west coast trip and then a disney trip when I have little babies of my own to enjoy.

Whatever happens, it is going to take so much money, and so much planning! But it has definitely got me thinking. And dreaming. And going to buy a lottery ticket...

Love love love xxx