After a day in the outer west, we went to Alice’s new abode in the inner west. One thing I love about having vege friends is being able to eat everything at a party. Woo!
Christine Knight
Christine is the editor of Adventure, Baby! She loves cake, her tolerant husband and her busy preschooler.
Pav Of Glory
There are few things I love as much as my mum’s pavlova. She made me one last night – just because. Awww.
Chinta Ria – Temple of Love
I love love this place. We went to Chinta Ria for lunch to welcome a new work colleague – the perfect way to spend a Friday.
Roti – yummmm.
Vege hokkien noodles.
My teams chows down.
Lust-Have: Winter Shoes
The last few winters I have slowly built up my dream shoe collection, which includes lots of boots basically. I realised last winter however that I also have a need for closed-in winter shoes to wear with stockings for work, hence my search for the perfect Mary-Janes.
Hallelujah, thanks to Karina for recommending these beauties from Mollini.
Definitely, Maybe
I wasn’t very keen to see this movie based on the previews that had been screening as it looked formulaic, fluffy and boring. I read some decent reviews however and decided to give it a go with Lisa on our movie night.
We were both really pleasantly surprised with how fun and non-cliched it turned out to be.
Will (Ryan Reynolds) is unlucky in love. He has a beautiful daughter who, on the eve of his divorce, wants to know the story about her mother and how they got together. He tells her a story about the three loves of his life, one of whom is her mother, and she has to work out which one her mother is from the story. It sounds cheesy, but is actually adorable, smart, witty and romantic.
I really loved seeing Isla Fisher as one of the love interests – she’s so very Aussie without being ocker. Sassy, adorable and fun – also really tiny!
A definite date movie. I will be going back for seconds!
Puppy’s First Baroo
Wi Marn Thai Restaurant
Alec and I frequently get awesome takeaway from Wi Marn in Chatswood and decided to track them down to eat in-house on Monday night.
Wi Marn is located in Help St, Chatswood, near the station. It’s a delightful place, really traditional Thai decor and very polite attentive staff.
Alec ponders his menu choice.
Vege spring rolls. Crisp and filled with yummy things.
My vege fried rice. Lots of big chunks of veges hidden in there.
Alec’s lemon chicken. He said it was delicious and the sauce smelt amazing.
I would highly recommend this little gem of a place. Alec and I will be back.
Sexy Is The Word
Alec. Goose called. He wants his outfit back 🙂
Jumper
This was a Sunday afternoon reward for exercising and cleaning.
Hayden Christenson (David) stars in this sci-fi adventure movie, along with Rachel Bilson (Millie) and Jamie Bell (Griffin). At age 15, David discovers he is a “jumper”, which means he can teleport through space – although not time. This means he can quite literally jump from, say, London to the top of the Sphinx in Egypt, or he can jump a foot closer to the TV remote so he doesn’t have to actually get up and reach for it.
David is an outcast when we meet him. In love with Millie and with no friends. After discovering his talent he escapes his life to recreate himself. Eight years later he finds himself back in his home town and looks up Millie. He also discovers that he is being hunted by a group of religious fanatics who have been hunting jumpers for centuries.
Hayden has coped a lot of slack for his acting skills – or lack there of. I have to say I’m not a huge fan either, but I do think he’s awfully nice to look at! It’s Jamie Bell who turns in a really strong performance – I’m looking forward to following his career.
I really enjoyed the movie – it was lots of action, splashed with sci-fi and romance – the perfect movie for a lazy weekend.
Dinner At Longrain
For Brandon’s last night in Sydney we went to dinner at Longrain in Surry Hills. Longrain don’t take bookings (at least on Saturday nights like when we went), so we had to wait in the bar area for an hour and a half till they had room for us. The bar area was really funky and they served appetisers and amazing cocktails.
Longrain isn’t my fave restaurant – I tend to think it’s popular because it’s trendy, not because it’s amazing. I hate to be negative, but it’s just not the kind of restaurant I like. Firstly, I’m not a fan of the atmosphere – it’s quite loud, so I find it really hard to hear what people are saying. It also take s a long time to get food, so I would recommend eating in advance – we were there at 6, sat down at 7:30 and my food arrived at 8:15. By that stage I was so hungry I had eaten two bowls of plain rice out of desperation.
Longrain is a bit of a “sharing” restaurant, where you order big dishes between several people – except we ordered our own food, which arrived at stages, so some people got food straight away, and others had to wait 30 minutes. Not cool! I also didn’t think the service was great. Very poor in face, compared with other restaurants of similar price. I also thought it was over-priced. Alec ordered snapper – it was $50. For one fish – just the fish, with nothing else. He did say it was amazing fish though 🙂 Last thing I wasn’t impressed with was the lighting – really dark and none of my photos turned out after the sun went down.
On the plus side, we had a really great night. Really great friends and conversation.
Janice and Andy want their beverages. Stat.
Self-portrait.
Seb loves his beer.
More beer!
Janice’s cocktail.
Prawns.
Oysters.
Calman chugs back an oyster.
Dessert tray.
