After flying back in from Melbourne I picked up Alec and head on over to try the Bondi Bite Me store – according to Bev, they had more items on the menu.
Bondi is a LOOONG way in peak hour traffic and cyclonic storms, but it was worth it for the delicious burgers and company.
Note the tomato sauce splatter on the ceiling.
Drawing a rocket.
Onion rings.
Alec’s burger.
Lisa’s topless burger.
Flourless chocolate cake.
Aww group shot.
Otters – CUTE!
Mucking around at the end of class last week.
We checked out of our house at Callala beach this morning and slowly drove home via Berry, Kiama and Stanwell Tops. The rain started bucketing down after we left Kiama so unfortunately it wasn’t nice enough to take any pics.
Kiama – the little blowhole.
Oh hai!
Wonky self-portrait.
Kiama lighthouse.
Big blowhole. Thar she blows!
Snuggles.
“I love my dad!”
I had such a great weekend. The girls were amazingly well-behaved! Such a pleasant surprise – both my wonderful Alec for taking me away and my loving dogs for not being painful!
Alec surprised me with a beach weekend down south at Callala beach. He rented a dog-friendly house and spirited me away after work on Friday night for a lovely weekend.
Beach!
Buffy’s first time on sand.
Kahlua has a bad hair day.
Freedom! First time off leash in public.
I’m not a very creative cook. I tend to make the same few dishes over and over again cos it’s easy.
I’ve been feeling lately however like I really should branch out as there are only so many times I can make pasta before Alec starts eating out. I thought I’d try risotto – I’ve only recently decided I like it and wanted to give it a go.
I used the basic recipe in the Donna Hay Classics cookbook and added the vegetables from another recipe. Turns out it’s pretty simple if not time-consuming and tiring.
Yay, risotto success!
Bev and I received emails about this super-secret Pater Alexander sale online. We both ordered a pair of these super, super-cute PJs. Thanks to Bev’s extra discount we got them for only $17 each.
Time for some sweet lil’ animals and inter-species snorgling.
This movie is based on the book Bringing Down The House, about team of students from MIT university who formed a card-counting team to make money at Black Jack. The book had a lot of fictional elements to it and the movie even more so – which made it more dramatic I imagine, and more interesting to first read, then watch.
What did impress me was how smart the students are (which highlighted how very poor my own math skills are) and what a genius scheme it was.
We had dinner at Alec’s favourite Vietnamese place in Chatswood – Golden Bo. I had some kind of noodle and vege dish.
Alec’s sauce for his noodles.
Vermicelli noodles and spring rolls. Delish!
I had a recent problem where my favourite brown boots ended up on a boat to Prague – to hopefully be seen again in around nine months. To get over my heartache, I took part in some extreme shopping today with a very patient friend.
Mollini had a one-day only VIP 40% off sale – enough to make any retail loving girl slightly bananas. It seemed there were many girls like us in Sydney – and they were all packed into the Mollini stores. We went to three stores to get these awesome shoes – the first two of which were packed and sweaty and strewn with shoes and paper. The last one was blissfully forgotten about by shoppers and we could finally enjoy trying on shoes without elbows in our backs.
The results make me very happy – one pair of brown boots to temporarily replace my favourites while on their European holiday, and a pair of brown Mary Janes that I was planning to buy full-price anyway. Awesome shopping day!
