So this weekend the chicks (is that the correct terminology?) and our Hen headed to the big city for a weekend of pampering before the big day for her in August. As good Bridesmaids should we had lined up a couple of non embarrassing surprises along the way. Each bridesmaid brought a bottle of fizz & I embraced my inner Ibiza bar owner and added some quite frankly amazing cocktail ornaments to jazz up the Tesco value plastic cups
(Claire and I were discussing that our fantasy coffee shop should have a bar that serves tapas and amazing wine and spirits at night, if that means I get to play around with pipe cleaner animal drink ornaments a la this weekend then I think its a plan).
We also made Mads a card to accompany a handbag she had been looking a for the wedding (which we sneakily bought) and Ange sourced photos from us all and made the most amazing scrapbook.
And to top it all off Mads mum bought her a spa bear (and what is life without a spa bear?).
After unwrapping all the presents and drinking a couple of glasses of bubbles we headed down to the spa. We got a 30 min treatment included in our nights stay. I had wanted to face my fear and have a pedicure (I hate people touching my feet) but wussed out at the last moment and had a manicure instead. All Spa-ed out we headed to the foyer for some drinks before dinner.
This was the view we had (fair to say it was quite a modern/swish hotel).
Dinner itself was lovely (always the sign of a good hotel when they take the time to fold your smoked salmon into Roses, I’m kidding this has never happened before)
The creme brulee was also very scoffable
We headed to bed pretty early so we could get an early start the next day. The hotel was situated right next to St Pauls
so after some of the party had made further use of the spa we headed up to the roof terrace for some awesome views of the London skyline.
We left our bags at the hotel and went to explore the other side of the river going across ‘the wobbly bridge’ which alas wobbles no more! A plethora of delights awaited us
The Tate modern
and my personal favourite the Globe
All too soon it was time to head back across the river to literally run for a train to take us home.
I did however manage to squeeze in some train knitting (the stained glass scarf, finally nearly finished!).
A perfect end to a great weekend
Awww… so nice to see some group shots I hadn’t seen before. I had such a lovely weekend. I’m not sure how I have lived my life so far without pipe cleaner animals in my cocktails… there is no going back!
It was a great weekend, I’m so glad that I managed to find the pipe cleaner animals, it had to be done!