Saturday 26^th September 2015 - 11:56pm

Dear Diary,

Today I slept at 2-3am because my brother and I had to catch the train to Manchester for two reasons:

1) My cousin’s engagement party! 6pm

2) Manchester United vs. Sunderland match! Finished 5pm!

The problem was, was that we only had 1 hour from the moment the final whistle blew at Old Trafford to get back to the hotel, get ready and arrive at my cousin’s party on time!

3:00am: Before heading to Manchester I took a shower and styled my hair for the engagement because I knew that I wouldn’t have time to do it after the match lol.

5:30am: My brother and I left home and made our way to the train station.

11:00am:  We arrived at our hotel in Manchester. I called my cousin, more like my best friend (R) to see where his room was and it turned out that he was just down the hall! We looked like such freshies waving from opposite sides of the corridor lol!

The plan for the day was that we watch the match at Old Trafford, rush back to the hotel, get ready in 30minutes and leave for the party.

11:00-12:00pm: I made sure my dress, abaya and scarf were all ironed and ready to be worn in the 30 minutes I had.

12:00pm: My brother and I made our way to Old Trafford!!

I love being in Manchester, I spent all my childhood here so coming back after 12 years is just amazing!!

12:30pm: We arrived at Old Trafford quite early, so we spent about an hour walking around the united shop and reading the captions off the black and white pictures around Old Trafford.

13:30: We stood at THE parking lot waiting for the united couch to arrive. Once it did and the doors opened I saw Louis van Gaal step out along with Ryan Giggs, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Memphis Depay, Juan Mata, Anthony Martial and many more!

I took a video of it!! I’ve posted it at the bottom for you to watch! 

After the players from both teams went inside, the gates to the stadium opened and so we made our way to our gate!

In all my experiences at stadiums, my favorite part of all is when I take that last step and the whole stadium is in front of me. I always look down when climbing up the stairs and on the last step I raise my head and omg the atmosphere is just mind blowing!

Our seats were at the Stratford End it’s where all the crazy supporters are, It’s where all the songs at the stadium start, and It’s where NO ONE SITS! No I’m serious no one sits at the Stratford End, I wish I knew why lol! So we stood in front of our seats though out the whole match, surprisingly it wasn’t that bad because the atmosphere just takes your mind off the pain lol!

 Okay so remember how I wrote that my cousin’s engagement was at 6pm and the match finishes at 5pm? Well we agreed that if we were to make it on time it would be best to leave 10 minutes before the match ends so that we could easily make our way to the hotel without traffic.

4:50pm: We left the stadium and jogged to the nearest street so that we could catch a cab... BUT to our surprise the roads were all blocked and by the time we got to the right street the game was already over and the streets were packed with Manunited shirts!  (Now 5:20pm)

5:30pm: We found a cab! Oh how nervous I was sitting there checking my phone every minute 5:35pm… 5:40pm… 5:41pm.

5:45: We arrived at our hotel and we jumped out and ran straight to the lift! As we were standing in the lift I grinned and said, “I’ll be ready in 10mins.” My brother laughed, I knew he wouldn't believe me because "I'll be ready" meant that I’d take a quick body shower, put my dress on, fix my hair (wearing a scarf doesn’t really give that volume effect lol) AND do my make up!!

5:55: I was actually ready!!! Until this very moment I still don’t know how on earth I did it! How did I get ready for an ENGAGEMENT PARTY in 10mins! Who does that? Lol

Everything from then on went very smoothly! We were a few minutes early and the funny thing was was that so many ladies asked me who had done my make up! You could only imagine their faces when I told them about my 10 minute mission.

Anyway, I’m so tired I can barely keep my eyes open it’s been such a long day but it’s memories like these I’ll be replaying in my head over and over again <3

Sweet Dreams.