Southport Christmas Lights Switch On

Hey Guys!
Now here is a post to get everyone in the right old festive mood! 

On Saturday (22nd December) me and Jess went to our towns Christmas Lights switch on! We met up at 1pm grabbed a quick Starbucks and went over to the stage. We got to the barrier as we got there as soon as it started and we were like the only people stood there other than the security, it kind of weirded (that is now a word as of when I'm writing this post!) us out because there was us right at the stage and everyone else was on the pavement. This worked in our favour though because Joel Ross (a radio presenter and ex children's TV presenter, for my slightly older readers in the UK you may remember him being in "Hider in the House" and "Escape from Scorpion Island) ended up speaking to us on stage and so did Myth of Unity who were the first act on!

Myth of Unity performing

After Myth of Unity finished performing we went round to the back of the stage to meet them and had a super quick conversation before they had to run to go to Blackpool lights switch on as well busy night for them! We then stayed around backstage to try and meet Joel, who I mentioned earlier, and Liz McClarnon who used to be in Atomic Kitten (again another older blast from the past in the UK) in total it took us four hours to pluck up the courage and actually ask them, they were lovely both lovely and we just stood and chatted about how they had a big impact on out childhoods! It is always good to reminisce with the people who made your early years special and see things from their point of view. It was time for a couple of quick photo's and a couple of autographs before they had to go back into the backstage area ready to turn on the lights, which meant for me and Jess it was time for another Starbucks to warm the cockles! 

                                                     

                                                                            Me and Joel                                       

                                                         

                                                                    Me and Liz 

Along with live acts there were also attractions such as the usual event things Southport has like candy floss and burger vans but also this time we had slightly weirder attractions such as live camels, coming from a girl who has only seen a live camel once in her life and that was back in August this year when me and my mum went to London Zoo, this seriously was so strange and also picture worthy! 

                                                  

                     Three wild Camels appear!

As we were walking back to the stage we decided to listen to a strange band that was playing however this decision turned out badly and they ended up "serenading" as Jess calls it just to us, now to everyone else this was hilarious but to me it was kind of terrifying. Like I've mentioned on my previous blog post, I have anxiety which usually flares up when I feel trapped in a crowd of people which was exactly this moment, I did film the experience but its literally just me and Jess laughing and also screaming as we try and get away to safety so i won't post that on here because nobody wants to hear my screams! 

                                                          

                                                         Here is the back of the weird band

The whole afternoon was filled with festive cheer, town was packed, we had met celebrities and it was all just a jolly fun time, except for the end the main star there who was Ryan Thomas, who plays Jason Grimshaw in Coronation Street, a popular TV show in the UK, just got in his car and just drove off, no hi, no wave, no nothing, by this time there was a lot of people who wanted to say hi and even when it was only me and Jess who tried talking to him through the barrier when no one else was really around that area all he did was smile. This proved there are people who genuinely are nice to there fans and then there are others who don't really make the bother, but hey there are always negative and positive things to a situation, luckily they were all positive apart from that! 

Anyway I'll leave this post here, ill see you all next week for more festive fun, thank you where ever you are reading.

Emily

xxx

P.S I have decided that from now on, to give my blog some structure I'm going to post on Sundays as my main posting day, but if something exciting happens ill post in the week too!