Wowza....

Oh.
My.
God.

I CANNOT believe that I just crossed the 15,000 mark! Utter madness!

Granted 14,000 of them came through the sxephil response vid (poor people.... they were none the wiser... just clicked on it, and regretted the day they were born...) but seriously though.... 15,000, over a thousand that came from people watching it and deciding to come back for more (agony that is).... it's astounding, and completely blew me out of the water.
You guys rock.

Thanks for joining me on this crazy adventure...
Lots of love,
Lyla

Blown Away & National Day (hey! that rhymes!)

Hi Guys!
So imagine my shock when I woke up this morning and found over 4,000 views on the response sent to Philip DeFranco! I came out of the shower 30 mins later and it had jumped to six thousand..... the whole experience left me COMPLETELY blown away.


I'm just so thankful that people are interested in what I'm saying. It's very satisfying and humbling.  So a BIG 'Thank you' to anyone out there who's reading!


After that amazing surprise this morning I got up completely invigorated and did my third video which you can see here..

So it's National Day here in Bahrain, so we all put our head together this morning and decided to go somewhere that epitomizes the Bahraini lifestlye.... lunch at Chilis!


To all our international viewers who've never been to the Gulf before you may be slightly shocked, and not quite understand what I mean by 'Chilis'. Is it a local restaurant? A place? A bird or a plane? Maybe the Arabic word for Superman?


Nay.


I'm here to let you all know that I really do mean Chilis. 
The American chain.  
Yeah. 


Back in the day it was THE coolest place to be on the Island, and it still is to some extent. 



Anyway that was all I ended up doing today. Just trying to get everything up and get some reading done.
  

I'd love to hear from you all in the comments section (if anyone's actually out there!) and see where you're from, and what you've been up to all day!


Lots of love (and as usual) Thanks for listening,
Lyla.

Sxephil and ME! (I know it should be I, but I'm excited!)

So I'm a firm believer in the fact that one should limit oneself to one blog post a day... After all, I don't want to be one of those people who burn out after 2 days (ok ok I'm one of them).... but I"m SO excited!!!

Now since I told my mum, my sis and anyone in the house I could hold captive (my cat) and I'm still all over the place, there's really no one to tell but you!

So I thought it would be a good idea to get the word out there about my new channel (non-friend related traffic), so I thought hmmm.... why not respond to sxephil.   I absolutely love his videos.  It's a good mix of interesting stories, viewpoints and humor.

And I like that combination. 

So I went for it, and well he approved my message, and so far I have 300 views! It's so exciting because a whole 7 people are now subscribers.

Now I know you're looking over at the imaginary person next to you and rolling your eyes and saying 'come on...' but before you do that it's such  great feat that I've been able to convince 7 real people (not  imaginary ones mind you AND ones that I've never met) to want to listen to me even though the videos look dodgy and kind of stiff on camera is amazing!

So if any of you crazy folks out there are reading this thank you thank you!! You really have made my day.

Thanks again for listening you guys.

Lots of love,

Lyla