So Excited For Summer!

The title says it all! I am super excited for summer! Shaun and I have so many fun things planned.

We decided that this summer we would go to England, France, Ireland and Iceland. 

First of all we decided to go to England and spend the summer there, especially because our first wedding anniversary is coming up 30 June. We fell in love in Brighton and want to celebrate our love by going to Brighton. However, it turns out that Brighton is stupidly expensive and the cheapest we could find was a room on airbnb for the same price we pay for a large 1 bedroom apartment in downtown Vancouver. Absolutely ridiculous! So instead we may be looking into staying in London as I know a landlord there that I previously rented from who can hopefully hook us up with a cheap room! :) 

I haven't seen my family in nearly 2 years because I moved to Canada and Icelandair luckily had a special where its free to stopover in Iceland for 1 week with our tickets to England! So we decided to include Iceland in our travel plans. Also since we've been married nearly a year and my family wasn't able to be part of the ceremony we decided to have a wedding in Iceland during this week that we're there. VERY EXCITING! 

I've always wanted to go to Paris, its the most romantic city in the world, right? So what better place to celebrate our anniversary date?! For our anniversary we have decided to go to Paris and spend a few days there and on our anniversary day we're going to head down to Disneyland! I'm so excited I've already picked out my dress that I'm going to wear with my pink Minnie Mouse ears!

How cute is this dress? Gorgeous! 

So as for Ireland, Shaun used to live there and wants to take me there to show me around and I've always wanted to go there too so we decided to throw that in as well :) 

Lots of exciting things happening and we will have the camera with us! So we're hoping to Vlog, blog and take lots of pictures during our trip so you can see what we're up to!

Lots of  Love!

Helga xx

Going Raw/Vegan/Vegetarian?!

Hey everyone!

Sorry I haven't uploaded or blogged in a while. I wasn't sure if YouTube and blogging would be something I wanted to pursue especially as I am the WORST when it comes to video editing and my computer is ancient. But I received messages from some of my new subscribers asking me to keep going which absolutely inspires me! I really do enjoy it and hopefully someday soon I will have better equipment but will make due with have I have for now :)

A lot of things have happened since my last video. Shaun and I are getting married in Iceland on June 7th and we can't wait! We don't want to give all the details away but it will be a very lovely celebration and Shaun is very excited to meet all of my family and friends.

We have also been playing around with becoming raw/vegan/vegetarian. We tried the Freelee Banana Girl lifestyle for a week to see if we would like it, which is a fruitarian diet. We kinda just felt a little "too" clean on the inside and missed eating our favorite foods so we decided to try raw til 4 which worked better for us as we like to have a warm meal for dinner. But again it was a little too restrictive so we went on to try being vegan which is currently what we're doing now, we try to stick with things that are not processed but we do indulge in the occasional tofurkey treat on the weekends. Also I've been experimenting with milk replacements and found coconut milk to be too thick, I tried the sweetened almond milk yesterday which has about 60 calories per cup and that tasted much better and lighter as well. Shaun also likes it so I think we have a winner! So at least we don't support cow rape :)

Personally, I always thought vegans/vegetarians or raw foodists we're all hippies, especially in Vancouver! But I became curious about it and learned a little more on the subject and have made a conscious effort to be more animal friendly, not to say that I am perfect all the time, far from it! But if almond milk tastes just as good as regular milk, then why not? and if I can use Daiya cheese instead of milk cheese then why not use that instead on your pizza or whatever you decide you need cheese on? :)

Have any of you tried experimenting with an alternative diet/lifestyle like becoming vegan/vegetarian or raw foodists?

Anyways, great things have happened as well as some not so great things. I lost all 4 of my best friends a few weeks ago because of something I had no control over. It's always sad when you lose friendships after so many years of being close. But I guess people grow in different directions and have different expectations. But I will be travelling all summer to England, France, Ireland and Iceland so I will have plenty of opportunities to meet interesting new people and can't wait for the adventures to begin!

Lots of love!

Helga xx