Rock Reef, Bournemouth

Last week I headed down to Rock Reef on Bournemouth pier with a bunch of blogging ladies to check out Bournemouth's newest adventure activity attraction. We were met by the marketing manager Juan who explained that Rock Reef offers clip n climb, a high ropes course, a caving experience and they are just about to launch a zip wire stretching from the end of Bournemouth pier to the beach.

After a quick tour we were left with our instructor Will who gave as a safety briefing and tested us to makeup we'd been paying attention before letting us loose on the clip n climb, which features 25 different climbing walls throughout the building. We started off on a very normal looking rock climbing wall which gave us all a chance to test the harness system, which works a bit like a giant seatbelt, when we felt comfortable with that we were left to explore the rest on our own...

 

Our instructor will hung around to make sure we were all safe (or to laugh at us all screaming..i'm not sure which).

Louise on the high ropes course- which has to be one of the most terrifying things I've ever done.

Once we'd all been round the high line we got out of our harnesses and headed back downstairs to have a go at caving. Once again instructor Will gave us a safety briefing before we headed in. As it's an artifical cave there's emergency exits every few metres and there's CCTV built in so you can watch what's going on from outside.

Louise, Cheryl, me,  Rosie   and Sarah

We thought we'd all hate it, but it has to be my favourite activity of the day. You enter through a small tunnel and then fall into a giant ballpit, which we all sat in for a while chatting, giggling (or crying of laughter in my case) and debating building our own caving systems complete with ballpits at home..something I'm still considering. We were then given the option of going back out or exploring the tunnels, a challenge which Cheryl and I quickly accepted, quickly followed by Sarah!

I don't think I've ever had so much fun at a blogging event and thanks to Will for making the evening so much fun! I think it's safe to say we'd all highly reccomend Rock Reef, it's a perfect way to spend an afternoon and is suitable for little kids and big kids and would make a great birthday party, hen do or work team building day. We were all quite excited to hear that they're thinking of developing some fitness classes at one point in the future too, which sounds like awesome fun and we can't wait to go back when the Zip Wire is open.

You can find Rock Reef on Bournemouth Pier and online at http://www.rockreef.co.uk/

x

 

 

an evening beach walk

Since Rosie took me on this lovely walk from Mudeford to Highlcliffe it's slotted it's way in to our weekly routine and we now find ourselves religiously walking along the shore, catching up on our days at work, enjoying the sound of waves and warmth of the evening sunshine.

Everything seems to be going 1000 miles per hour at the moment, so much so I've even started getting up at 5:30 in the morning (who knew that time even existed!?) to go to the gym. I'm sorry that this also means I'm blogging less, I promise you're not missing anything exciting!

What've you been up to lately?
How have you been enjoying the sunshine?
xo

the australia update - 100 days!

Way back in March I posted our first Australia update, time has flown by and now it's only 100 days until we leave the UK behind! Here's what's happened in the mean time:

• Danny managed to land himself a nice job to get him started when we arrive which is brilliant news. 
• Garuda airlines went and cancelled our flights without telling us, then offered us a different flight with 2 stop overs with huge waiting times, eventually we managed to cancel with them and have re-booked with Emirates. 
• We've just applied for our Australian bank account, luckily HSBC will open one and send you debit cards and transfer your money for £100, whilst we could have waited and done it in Australia for free we wanted it sorted ASAP, we'll have our debit cards in our hands and our money in Australia before we even land, which puts my mind at ease a little more. 
• We've started clearing out all our posessions, I've made a list of everything we need to sell between now and the day we leave, including my macbook, televisions, my mulberry bag, louboutins (both are never used) and our cars! We've been marking days on the calendar where we both wont work and instead will do carboot sales and jumble sales.
• We found out that our good friend Becca  is pregnant, and due before we go, hooray!
• I've become totally addicted to crossfit (more on that one day)
• We've been spending lots of quality time both together and with friends and family, and I finally got to meet ony of my favourite bloggers Catherine Lux 

It's all feeling so surreal now that the end of UK life is in clear sight! 

See you at 50 days for another update :) 

xo