Weekend Sunshine

Nat here.  The husband and I managed to cram a lot into our weekend! It does mean that unfortunately my ironing basket is sitting untouched.  Although, I'll blame the W's for that as we were face-timing last night with wine...there was no way I was going to iron after wine!

On Saturday we finished off our Christmas shopping, at half-time husband thought tea was in order.  Not just any old tea my friends..tea, at the tea room..

Look at all the goodness!  Shaanie, don't look at the fact that the gorgeous cardi in the picture is yours...I promise I'll return it...pinky promise!

Saturday night we thought we would try our new local bar - The Botanist at Kirribilli, it's just up the road and is uber trendy, so trendy in fact that we have avoided it until now.  The cocktails were de-licious..

 And the snacks were outrageously good, particularly the chorizo and potato quesadilla!

After dinner we walked past Carols under the Bridge, which was lovely.

On our walk home we spotted the ferris wheel at Luna Park and decided to conquer my fear of heights.  It was great..apparently. I spent the whole time looking into husband's shoulder....

 Apparently it looked something like this...

On Sunday we headed to Bronte for breakfast...and couldn't get a park.  Seriously - we couldn't get a park and gave up!  We ended up at Vaucluse where we went for a great walk.  Afterwards we decided we still wanted to go to the beach so went back north to Curl Curl...where you can park to go to the beach, not only can you park, it's FREE parking..., you have to PAY to go to the beach!! Sydney = ludicrous!

Happy Monday!

Happenings

Nat here.  We had Mum and the fam down last weekend so we HAD to take Mum to our fave breakie haunt at Balmoral....

Met M for a mid-week dinner at Ash St Cellar which was delish...

It was the husband's birthday on the 11th.  Yes he had two cupcakes for breakfast..followed by peanut butter toast with ice cream...!

We're still enjoying Kirribilli....

Husband's parents surprised him for his birthday and took us to Marque which was aca-mazing...reference to Pitch Perfect there...funny movie, hey Shaanie?

Strange event at Marque though...couple sitting next to us...man jumped up, yelled some bad language at his girlfriend and threw a full glass of water in her face!  She was saturated, had to tie her hair back and everything.  He stormed out and left her with the bill!  It was all very dramatic, and very Sydney.  People are so wound up in this town...

Meanwhile does everyone else know that sweet bread is the brain of an animal?  I did not my friend and so I ate it, but for the record, I did not like it. Everything else was de-licious.

The tree is up....

Ten more sleeps till Christmas....does anyone else think 2012 has been a sham? It was February seemingly two minutes ago....

Bar sunshine

A work event landed us at the Island Bar last week, which was great - look at that view!  Afterwards we had some drinks at the Opera Bar which was great and then, because one of the girls at work is super spesh we landed at the Ivy Pool Bar....

It was uber cool, far too much so for me.  I've never seen so many beautiful people in my life!

The Don

Nat here.  Gem and I are big fan's of Don...aka Donna Hay.  Gem have you seen her Christmas issue this year? It has redeemed herself of late I must say!  Do you like our little (very little) outdoor setting?  Ikea you never cease to amaze me with your low prices.

The lovely Shaanie proved just how special she was last week by sending me some "cheer-up" flowers...isn't she the loveliest?

The husband and I tried Felix the other night, one of Merivale's restaurants.  It was delish and such a great vibe.  Definitely recommend a visit!

Sydney touring sunshine

Nat here.  The husband and I did some Sydney touring on the weekend, we caught the ferry into Circular Quay ($22 later...seriously, how is that affordable public transport?!), visited to the Art Gallery and then went and had some drinks with L&J at Clovelly, look at the view from the Bowls Club...

We hope your neighbours are feeling a little more festive this morning L&J...sorry!!

Happy Weekend...the Christmas Tree is under construction woo hoo!!