As most of you know I had the pleasure of visiting FLORID with Heart Radio! I have finally got back in to blogging and thought i would give you all a recap on the most amazing trip I have ever been on!!!

We flew from Gatwick airport, as London is quite a long way from where we live we stayed at the amazing Gatwick airport Premier Inn within Gatwick manor which was absolutely lovely, after a lovely breakfast we headed off to the airport ready for the 9 hour British airways flight to Tampa Bay!

 We stayed in the gorgeous Marriott Clear water beach hotel which had the most amazing view of clear water beach! We could literally see dolphins from our room, it was gorgeous!

Clearwater is around 40 minutes away from Tampa and around 1.5 hours away from Orlando but there is plenty to do around Clearwater however I would suggest renting a car!

Here is the low down on what we got up to on our trip!

Day 1 - Landed in Clearwater - quick bite to eat and straight to bed SHATTERED!!
Day 2 - Trip to the Aqua adventure water park in Tampa, we got the meal deal which meant we could get food and drinks each hour without having to worry about bringing money in with us! The water park was huge, lots to do for all ages! My kids loved the wave pool!

Day 3 - Day on clear water beach! So much fun collecting shells and splashing in the sea!!

Day 4 - Trip to Busch Gardens - we got a fast pass ticket which was well worth the money! Lots of rides to go on, plenty of shows and restaurants! The kids loved it! This is the second time we have visited Busch Gardens and there is always something new!

Day 5 - Visit to Tampa Zoo, unfortunately it rained ALL day, most of the attractions are outside so it was a bit of a disappointment , however the zoo itself is huge, it features lots of animals, restaurants and rides.

Day 6 and 7 - Disney!! We met up with my niece at Disney and had the most amazing fast track tour, went on most of the rides! Love Disney its our 2nd visit and always have the most amazing time!

Always sad to go home! still got major holiday blues, once you have been to Florida nowhere compares!

Check out my v blog videos here for Disney

and here for Tampa

I Love being off in the Easter holidays, being able to spend valuable time with the kids. Haaris is at 'that age' now where he doesn't want to spend as much family time with us, he either wants to be out with his friends or playing on his X box so when I had made plans to take a trip to Smithills open farm in Bolton I knew it would just be me and Zahra, perfect girly day!

We get up extra early as I knew the farm would be busy with it being holiday season, the farm is only a 30 minute trip from our house and there is ample parking on site!

When we reached the farm it was extra busy, it cost us around £18 for entry, that was for both of us and included an Easter egg hunt, a donkey ride and some feed for the animals, we had packed our own picnic therefore we didn't have to worry about extra expense for lunch or snacks.

Zahra was super excited to visit Pets corner, and was given the opportunity to feed one of the baby Lambs! haha we ended up getting attacked by 3 of them!

We also got to hold baby chicks, hamsters and rabbits, oh and stroke a huge owl!

The farm is huge, so much to see and do, there is a Lovely park on site and during Easter the have an inflatable bouncy castle and slide, as it was the Easter holidays this was really busy!

We found a nice quiet spot to have our picnic lunch.

Not only is the farm fun but it's also educational, we learnt names of baby animals and how cow's are milked. Zahra was fascinated!

The Easter egg hunt was fantastic, it took place in the woodland area and families had to find eggs and special Easter treats hidden in the woodland area! So much fun we got a small hatching chick and 3 chocolate treats!

Before leaving the farm we stopped off for delicious ice cream!

we had so much fun we will definitely be back!

Check out our video here!