Níl neart ann gan laige: Dabbing, Squirrels and Pop Up Shops!

Ello :)

So 27/08/17 i decided to have a spontaneous trip down London with my work friend Maddy - who happily came with me even though i only really wanted to go for a shop :) This post is just a general one about the day, a few photos and a mini review on my product purchases ;) Enjoy!

5:00am : We awoke, we were both extremely tired but it takes Maddy 2 hours to get ready so we got up early as we needed to leave for the bus station and get there by 7:20. Maddy could see i was tired and said she'd get me up in half an hour, i refused purely based on the fact i'm one of these people that if i'm up then i am up i can't get back to sleep no matter how hard i try - plus i fancied wearing make up for a change and Maddy said she would curl my hair so i figured might as well get up and start getting ready!

7:35am : A bit uneventful. We got on the bus to drive us to Victoria Coach Station London - it was quite a smooth ride although i was concerned for Maddy as she gets motion sickness but on the way there she seemed fine. I played some Lego rockband on Maddys DS, we played some vintage games on this little Arc Games console - and saw how i failed at every one haha.

11:00 am: We arrived in London - it was finally time for me to go to the pop up shop i was soo excited!! For those who don't know PointlessBlog aka Alfie Deyes, Zoella aka Zoe Sugg and ThatcherJoe aka Joe Sugg have recently opened a pop up store full of exclusive merch which is PB merch and Sugg life merch combined. It opened on Wednesday 23rd August and is only opened for 10 days so i was literally begging everyone i know to come down to London with me so i could get some merchandise - as much as i would like to meet them i knew it was a high possibility you wouldn't get to as in all of their vlogs they explained they may on occasion pop in but there was no guarantee, I was okay with that though as i really just wanted some of the merchandise :) Never in a million years did i think i would become one of these people obsessed with youtubers but there i was walking towards Covent Garden with Maddy, extremely excited to go to a shop full of youtuber merchandise.

12pm: We arrived at the store, the queue was rather long and Myself and Maddy were expecting a 40mins-1hr wait at least before we would get in. However, much to our surprise, we were in within about 20 minutes wait. Maddy decided to constantly dab, you know dabbing on the haters haha! The Security were very efficient and all of the staff were very nice and you could tell they actually wanted to be there and were happy to be there, which is a good sight to see. We entered the store and it was packed, there were a lot of people there with their parents and obviously their parents were scavenging around for all the merch their daughters/sons wanted which almost made it impossible to get anything. Luckily no one was blocking the hoodies, which meant i could get mine - they had sold out of so much stock it was unbelievable! but i managed to grab myself a black hoodie in a size medium (which is a little bit big on me - all of the hoodies are quite big - i assume because they are unisex). The next piece of merchandise that i had my eye on since they announced the pop up shop was the signed poster which had already sold out once within 2 days of the shop opening. There were only around 10 or so left and they were all in yellow - in all fairness i didn't care about colour of the poster i just wanted a poster. Maddy being a little smaller than me managed to squeeze herself to were the posters were and grabbed me one! There was plenty of photo stops as such in the store but because it was so cramped in the queue and i know Maddy technically just came for me to get my stuff i decided i would pay for my stuff and get out of the shop. Bare in mind it was very hectic in the store and none of the three youtubers were there - i can't imagine what the store must be like when one of them are there.

12:30 pm : We then went to H&M because Maddy basically dragged me to it haha but it's fair enough i dragged her to a pop up store. We took a walk through ChinaTown went into a sweet shop called Hardy's and went into an awesome comic book store :) We then arrived into Leicester square and had some lunch at Garfunkel's. After lunch which was about 1:30 we went into the M&M store - we also wanted to go into the Nickelodeon store but it was closed (Sad Times :( ) and decided to take a casual stroll back to Trafalgar Square and went into Waterstones where i was pretty much staring at Plays and Youtuber books - Mainly Username:Evie by Joe Sugg - it just looks really good and it's more like a graphic novel. Maddy went off to purchase a dungeons and dragons starter set and we promptly went to St James Park on the Mall to have some ice cream (as it was extremely hot) and chill for a while.

The most interesting part of our conversation was Maddy asked me if i could invite 10 celebrities/historical figures alive or dead for dinner who would it be. I have finally decided on The Krays (mainly because i am absolutely fascinated by them, especially Ronnie's schizophrenia), Audrey Hepburn (because i adore her), Shawn Mendes (i need a bit of eye candy, plus i'd really like to find out more about him- i think he'd be quite interesting and entertaining), ThatcherJoe aka Joe Sugg (similar reasons to Shawn Mendes), Elizabeth Woodville (because she was such a powerful woman and there are a lot of rumours etc surrounding her link with witchcraft and i'm intoxicated by that topic and would love to know more about her), William Shakespeare (my favourite writer and i think he'd be very interesting and i would like to know very much where his inspiration for A Midsummer's Night Dream came from), Boudicca (because she once again was a very powerful and influential woman), Henry VIII (because the tudor period is my favourite period of history to study and i'm very interested in Henry VIII) and Colin Morgan (because why the hell not?!).

Next, we took a good old wonder around the park and spotted a squirrel - it was so cute. It approached Maddy and she got a bit scared thinking it would attack her - I don't think it had any squirrely wrath though as it seemed pretty passive. Saw some sights like the guards museum etc and went back to the Coach station ready to go home.

6pm: We got on the bus home, uneventful once again. Listened to some music on the way back and watched ThatcherJoe's new video and Olli White's new video and then we got home about 9pm - we dropped Maddy off home and as soon as i got in i was a bit chilly so i literally grabbed my new hoodie and put it on - it's sooo cosy!

Mini Review on SLxPB shop:

- The Security were really nice and organised, very efficient and made sure that everyone was safe in getting into the shop.
- The staff were very thoughtful and enthusiastic - you could tell that they were genuinely happy to be there.
- Although lacking in some stock, which wasn't their fault - I don't think they anticipated to sell out of products that quick, the products themselves looked great and the way all of the products were displayed was fantastic - you could clearly see the prices in the shop and could see where all of the products were located.
- The products themselves look high quality and looked well worth their money. I purchased a Black Hoodie in a medium and it is very cosy and of a very good quality - it is the most comfortable hoodie i have ever owned- i think i'll probably live and die in it!
- The shop itself looked as if the shop was there all year round as the design looked of a very high quality for a pop up shop so a lot of effort was put it and it shows.
- All in all all products were well worth their money as they were of such a quality, and it was clear to see how much effort has gone into this shop and i wish it all the best for the next week or so - it's a roaring success!!