American Candies

Treat Box

I came home this evening after a long day at work and was pleasantly surprised to find a big parcel addressed to me. I was pretty sure that I hadn't ordered anything so I was rather confused as to what was inside! 
Past the many layers of packaging there was a metal box with authentic and vintage coke bottles detailed on the front and inside....

...were SWEETS!

The tin box was full of American candies all rammed in tetris style. Some of them are ones I've never seen before so I had a little squeal to myself about the excitement of trying them all out. 

Inside were 19 different treats: Baby Ruth chocolate bar, Oreo Brownie (WHAT!), Swedish Fish, Jolly Rancher Hard Candy, Tootsie Roll, Kool-Aid, Reese's Big Cup, Grapehead Candy, M&M's peanut butter, Air Head, Turtles, Nerds, Skittles Dessert Flavour (WOW!), Luffy Tuffy, more Nerds, Cuppa Cuppa; Strawberry & Cream and Mango Yoghurt flavour and Hubba Bubba Dr Pepper Flavour. 

I've already started tasting some of them and can't wait to get through them all! So thank you Joey for sending me such a lovely surprise :D

I'd love to hear which sweets or treats are your favourite! From UK, America...or anywhere.
Comment down below :)

Love Anna x

My Birthday

Gees, Oxford

This year, for my birthday I hadn't planned to do much, I just wanted to spent some time with my family and boyfriend and have some fun. So the day before we went to a trampoline park in Milton Keynes, which was so much fun! Then on the following day, my sister booked for us to go to Gees in Summerton, Oxford. Gees is a restaurant that use to be a garden shop so with a glass conservatory, it really is such a pretty place to look into. Every time I've passed it, I've wanted to go there and finally I got the chance! And I got to say...it definitely didn't fall short of my expectations. 

When we arrived, we seated to our table that was just in the middle with the conservatory to our left on the kitchen on our right, which was nice as we got to see a bit of everything. The menu was already laid out and I noticed that it was printed for Sunday 8th February so I had to make sure I kept a copy for memory sake. 

To get us started we ordered a couple of drinks and I decided to go for an elderflower presse, thinking that it was the ordinary glass bottled ones. But I was glad when they were brought to our table and they were presented all lovely in glasses. 

We don't usually eat starters but we decided to try some out, so we ordered a couple to get us going but not too much so we could still enjoy our main meals. We tried out the squid, mussels and aubergine falafel. I'm a big fan of falafel so I really wanted to try it out and I enjoyed it just as much as original falafel. It had a hint of aubergine but enough to make the taste really nice.

Then our mains came and we got quite a variety of different dishes. This meant more sharing which is great for me and my greedy appetite!
I ordered the pollock with saffron mash and there was also grilled tuna steak, rabbit (which I was really against!) and a roast! They all looked great and more importantly tasted absolutely amazing. A successful meal as everyone managed to polish off their plates, which is another sign of how delicious it was!

Afterwards, they brought out my cute birthday cake that my mum personally made and sang happy birthday. The cake was such a perfect size, it was easy to take and we managed to finish it all between us too!
I've always loved my mum's cakes because she's made these for us our whole lives.

I honestly had such a lovely birthday this year and I am so happy that I got to spend it with my family and my boyfriend. I was so spoilt in terms of what I got to do, my birthday wishes and my birthday gifts so I'm very grateful for it all and I couldn't have asked for a better weekend! Thank you all to those who wished me happy birthday, to all those that I got to see and to all those who were crazy enough to buy me the best presents ever, you made it a memorable day for me <3

Love Anna x