Tough day at the office

This was Thomas after his fist day at school. He was wiped out. He says he had a great day but at about 5:30 he was out cold. I popped him into bed but he woke up and wanted some milk. We couldn't find his bottle so I had to run to the chemist and get a new one and he stayed awake until I go back and then slept through the night. I am going to love my Thursdays and Fridays.

Home again, home again, jiggity jig...

We have finally made it back to our house. Oh we are all so happy. The boys were over the moon to be back. Well maybe not Harrison because now he has to do so many more things for himself. Oh well he'll get used to it.

OK so if you ever felt the need to move I think you should all use Crown. Use them just for the entertainment value. They packed our stuff last January and because we were a glutton for punishment we had them do it again from NZ. Boy they make you laugh.

They had brought all the 157 items off the truck and because I have no where to put anything I wanted to do the actual unpacking myself. So I asked them to open the boxes and unwrap the beds and such and move a few things from here to there and then they left.

Well I started to unpack thinks and OH the things I found. There was garage things in with kitchen things and the best was the sugar bowl that was still full of sugar. I picked up the package that it was wrapped in and I could hear the sugar so unwrapping slowly I found a half full bowl of sugar. I am not sure what these people were thinking that day. They also packed a whole bottle of Metho. We weren't to bring any combustible material. We also had a laugh when two new lamp shades were found in a box. These were from the house in NZ. They now look very nice in our living room.

I am more happy than anyone could know. We will be living out of boxes until our furniture is replaced but I am so happy to be home that I don't mind.

Thanks to all the girls for sticking by me this past year and I am looking forward to a great year of relaxing and lots of shopping.

Love,
Helene
xoxox

Oh What a Night!

We had a bit of a girls night out over the weekend and the best part was it was the whole night and we didn't even have to come home until Sunday lunch time. We celebrated Desiree's, Donna's ,Danielle's and Narelle's birthday. OK so there was no cake and no Donna or Rell but the thought was there.

Drove into the city and eventually found the hotel we were staying at after passing it a couple of times. Parked the car and went up to our rooms. What a nice view. Over looking Darling Harbour. After a quick switch of rooms we decided we didn't have enough alcohol or snack food for the evening. We went back down to the lobby to inquire where the closest bottle shop was. Well lucky us it was just around the corner. Also around the corner was a convenience store. What a great score. We could go straight back up to start our drinking. Well we ducked into the convenience store first. Hotel snacks can be very expensive so we thought we could save some money. Alas this was not to be. I chose a bag of cheese and onion chips, a pump water (large but not humongous) and a packet of gum. I popped my purchases on the counter and was promptly told that would be $10.80. My mouth flew open with the only response I could muster "WOW." Nat was next. Smaller bottle of water than I got and a the large bar of Cadbury Chocolate. $7 she was told. We asked if it was gold plated. Not to the man behind the counter of course he only had one good eye as it was we didn't want to make him grumpy. We left to check out the liqueur store. When we got back Dan had spent $12 on a tub of ice cream and some water. I am not sure how much Des ended up spending.
Well the liqueur store was not much better. They didn't have what we were looking for but the lady behind the counter told us there was another shop just up the road. So off we go. The next shop was no better and they had less to offer. We sighted a few pubs but no alcohol to be found. We did find another convenience store and he was nice enough to tell us if we walked up another 2 blocks we would find a Coles with a Liqueurland inside. Yeah! So off we went. After much discussion a purchase was made and back down the hill we went to the hotel.

Well we had a great time sitting out on the balcony have our very expensive snacks and drinking. Finally we were up and getting ready for dinner. We had a great dinner at a restaurant in Cockle Bay. The only problem was the people smoking at the next table. The cocktails were great and the company even better. Off for a few hours of dancing and people watching we were back to the hotel about 2. We sat and had a few more drinks to unwind and by three we were all exhausted. We had trouble sleeping and unfortunately had to be up again by 8:30 to be out by 10.

It really was a great night out. There were a few people that were very missed but hopefully next time they will come too.

Thanks girls for a great night.

Helene
xoxo