As you all know I take my dogs for a walk out by the lake most mornings. We’ve been having some amazing sunrises of late plus I’ve spotted lots of baby birds so I made sure to take my camera with me the other morning.
The sunrise…
and the ducklings….
Seeing all this is a wonderful way the start the day.
It’s been quite some time since we headed out on family bike ride and even longer since I blogged about it. But I woke up this morning with energy to burn so it was decided we’d head out on a bike ride. To start with we headed out to the point where I walk the dogs most mornings. Check out the blue cloudless sky – it’s been like that all weekend.
Then it was up and over the first hill. Okay, so there were a few fluffy white clouds about 🙂
And on to the path the goes around the other side of the lake. You might remember it from when I walked it with the dogs a while back. Loved this gallah – talk about a birds eye view over the lake.
We stopped for the girls to have brief play at the play park and I took some flower photos.
Then it was time to continue on our way back around the lake.
and up the final BIG hill – which is a real killer at the end of the ride.
Back home we were quick to head into the pool for a swim to cool down. The rest of the day was spent by the pool, enjoying a BBQ for lunch, more swimming and later putting up our Christmas tree – because, yes, Christmas is just 5 weeks away.
On Friday afternoon I headed off for a scrapbooking weekend. I didn’t have far to go and in just 20mins I had arrived.
The beach was just minutes from where we stayed but I didn’t venture there again. For some reason I took very few photos this weekend – very strange for me. Mel and Jody were already getting set up when I arrived so I quickly got unpacked and settled and got to work. A while later another of their friends had arrived and we headed for dinner at a Thai restaurant. No photos (what the?) but a lovely meal. I was even adventurous and even ordered a penang curry.
The rest of the weekend was a combination of scrapbooking, chatting, playing on the i-pad (which Kevin kindly delivered to me on Sat morning), eating, scrapbooking, chatting, drinking tea and more eating. We were totally spoil with the food. Just check out what I ate.
Cupcakes by Jody
A vegetarian cesear salad
and an amazing Indian dinner, complete with horrific India travel stories told by Jody & Mel. I won’t go into detail but let’s just India has moved considerably DOWN the travel list.
Two delicious indian curries made just for me. Thankfully some of my table mates were keen to share.
Now, you might wonder why this post is titled Half Weekend Away. Well, even before I headed off on Friday afternoon I’d been thinking of not going so I could spend some time with Kevin. With him being away so much of late it seems like I’ve not spent any quality time with him. So I decided to head home after dinner on Saturday night so we could spend Sunday together. What a sap am I? It’s not like me at all but I really was missing him. I’m glad I went though. I got lots of pages done, had a blast chatting and laughing with Mel and Jody.
I was so bad with the photo taking I only got one of Mel & I – and that was because she thought to get one. Mel & Jody – if you managed to get a photo together can you please send me a copy?
and now I get to spend a day with Kevin as well. The best of both worlds I’d say.
What you might ask?
For the last few weeks it’s been telling me I have gained weight. Quite a few clothes that fit me on return from our UK trip no longer fit. Today I went through and removed everything that is too tight and moved them through to Christy’s wardrobe (she had space). They are shown in the above photo. Not good is it?
Doing this has motivated to get my eating back in control so I can get back into these clothes – especially since some of my fav. Summer clothes are in this collection.