Thailand Countdown

I haven’t seen my husband for more than 10 min each morning for roughly the last week. He has been really busy at work and I have to admit that it’s starting to get hard. Whereas at the beginning of the week it was nice to have a bit of peace and quiet once our daughter went to sleep… Now I’m noticing the silence and it feels a bit lonely.

BUT… in 6 days we’re heading to Thailand!! I’m getting so excited. We’ll be over there for our 3 year wedding anniversary and also in the area where we went for our honeymoon so I’m really hoping for a special trip. Is it wrong to get my hopes up? I hope i’m not setting the bar to high in my mind. I’d like to do something really nice for him when we’re over there but I’m drawing blanks at the moment…

We both really need this trip… My husband more so than me with his workload and I’m sure many would agree with me that you need things to spice up a relationship from time to time. Especially after you have children.

I went last year with my best friend and we had the best time! I was recently looking back through photos of our trip and they still generate a good chuckle from me. My best friend is gorgeous and naturally photogenic. I as well, love a camera to capture great moments. My husband however, does not. Cannot stand photos which makes for some very big frustrations on outings and trips. I naturally, plan to be snapping photos the whole time (especially of food for this blog) but also to show our daughter when she’s a bit older and to have them around our house. Hope he relaxes enough to let me get some good ones of us! Might have to slip him a drink… Or ten.

Can’t wait to hit the beach, sand, bars, restaurants and massage shops! Absolutely can’t wait!

Melbourne Moments Part 1

I recently went to Melbourne for a convention for work. It was designed to be an inspirational, ideas sharing workshop and it was. I met some amazing people and got to catch up with old friends. I didn’t get much time to do anything else during the 3 days but luckily I had some time off over the next couple of days. My sister was flying down to meet me and we planned to eat and shop our way around Melbourne.

One absolutely fabulous place I came across was a Cafe called “Auction Rooms”. (107 Errol Street, North Melbourne). I went there with my friend on our first day in Melbourne to get some lunch and much needed coffee. It was one of the most amazing coffees I’ve ever had!!! Sooo good! We also both ordered their special salad for the day. Rocket, fig, spanish onion, goats cheese and pistachios. Holy moly, amazing. It wasn’t normal goats cheese though, I forget what they said it was. It had a bit of a bite to it. Lovely.

There was another place that my friend and I went to for dinner. “Oskar” (1 Errol Street, North Melbourne). We weren’t too impressed with their garlic pizza – the crust was a bit too thin for our liking with not enough garlic but the pizza I ordered was beautiful! Garlic Prawns, squid, rocket and I can’t even remember what else was on it because I ate it so fast!

Oh! I nearly forgot about the amazing muffins we had too!! I didn’t get the name of the shop where we got them from but I can honestly say, it was the most amazing mixed berry muffin I’ve ever eaten. I’m not too fussed on muffins usually. We only bought them because we were so hungry but I wish I had’ve gone back and gotten more! If you happen to be in North Melbourne it was a little shop that also sold bread and was kind of across the road from “Oskar”.

Part 2 to come soon!

M.I.A

I know I have been m.i.a lately…. I’ve been sooo busy. I went to Melbourne and then stepped straight back into a hectic work load. I do have a few photos from Melbourne of yummy food ready to go. I will get them up soon as well as some new posts.

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