Emma's Bucket List

Okay, so not all experiences on my bucket list live up to my expectations or are worth repeating, as this experience proved.  I had heard such great things about this festival, so I was looking forward to it in a major way.  V Festival run the festival simultaneously at two sites, Weston in Staffordshire (in […]

Bootleg Canyon Flightlines – Zip Lining Experience from The Top of Red Mountain Before we left, for our trip to Las Vegas, I did a ton of research on the Internet about cool things we could do whilst we were out there, since we didn’t want to spend an entire week on the Strip.  You […]

Well, I think everyone should visit Las Vegas once in their life… It’s never been a place that tops my personal list, but we had the opportunity of a holiday away from the kids in May of this year (3 months ago now), and decided to go somewhere that we couldn’t go with them normally. […]

We tried most of the well reputed Casino Buffets, our favourites (for food quality and variety) in this order were The Encore/The Wynn and Cosmopolitan, followed by The Bellagio.  I was disappointed by the buffet at Mandalay Bay, as I expected it to be on a par with the others for some reason, possibly because […]

Having visited Disney World in Orlando with my partner and daughter, whilst the boys were away with their father. I couldn’t allow the experience to escape my sons; and since we were lucky enough that my partner had been allocated a block of leave during the school Easter holidays, I took the opportunity to escape for […]

After our day out at Sea World, we got up bright and early and took our gigantic mini-van off to The Animal Kingdom.  My partner had done most of the research for this holiday as it was his treat, so I wasn’t aware that each kingdom was actually a separate theme park prior to going. […]

Soon after Dad passed away, my partner and I had a trip planned to Orlando Florida to visit Disney World with our little girl.  I remember thinking at the time, that I would rather go and lie on a beach and do nothing so that I could unwind after the events of the previous month, […]