Fruit & Flowers

Well it's Friday night and it's wet and I am at home.... Feeling like I should be eating a soup or a stew or a pot roast... Throw another log on the fire perhaps....? Just a week ago I was whinging about the heat!

Today I did something that I would have thought I would have done many times by now. But I ordered grocery items online and had them home delivered. And I am very happy with the result.

The store that I used was vegeout.com.au and the reason I went with them is that they are a local supplied in my neighborhood, that the prices seemed to be competitive / same to my usual grocery store supplies and finally the fact that they deliver for free (min $30 spend). So far I am very impressed with the quality and quantity of my order. I also got a little present, a bunch of white roses from them, which I thought was a nice touch for Valentines day!! Just so very convenient though!!

Also, in (un)related news, my anniversary flowers have well and truelly opened up and are looking and smelling very beautiful, I have brought them home from work so that I can enjoy them this weekend....

Valeversary Dinner at Wilson's

Andrew & I went out for a dinner to celebrate - kind of like (but not) a valentines and anniversary dinner.

I wanted to have some nice seafood, so that cut down the number of places that we had to chose from. In the end the location I chose was a restaurant at Portside. I just want to say that I LOVE what they have done with Portside - but the area around it really needs some work! I am sure that this will come with time.... So to Wilsons Boathouse Seafood Restaurant we went ....

Overall I think that it was a good choice - I enjoyed the night out and I think that this is a place that I would like to return to with family and friends. I particularly would like to to just go one day to the Oyster and Caviar Bar... accompanied by a few champers... Sounds like a GREAT Sunday afternoon!!!

Anyhow... Will try to provide some of my experiences:

Service
Bizarre. The woman (girl?) who attended to us was nice enough, although did not have a great command of the english language - think simple country girl - dumped in the city. The comment about the oyster shooters was hilarious when she tried to describe the Exotic coconut shooters with the desciptive of "brown stuff". GOLD!

Food
Abosolutely Brilliant. It's been a while since I had such lovely seafood.... FRESH! Just yum yum yum and more yum! The dessert menu left a bit to be desired though - we skipped out on that.

This is a complimentary Scallop dish that we were given - which was a scallop on top of a salsa with proscuitto. YUM!


For entree we shared some shooters - which had the old favourate Bloody Mary, as well a Coriander (coconut milk curry-like) flavour and a french lemonade (sour mix and french champagne).


For mains we decided on platters. Mine was all cold - King Neptune’s Platter - which included sand crab, Fraser Island prawns, Balmain bugs, shucked oyster (they weren't shucked), smoked salmon (to die for).


Andrew got the hot & cold variation which included less of the cold stuff and also had salt & pepper calamari, beer batter whiting and prawn cutlets.

Ambience
The "romantic" corner we were placed in was a bit drafty and dull.... Not very romantic at... But on reflection, I don't know if this is a restaurant that is romantic .. So we would have been better placed where we had a view of the comings and goings... In the thick(er) of things.

So overall maybe a 3.5 outa 5 meal...

Anniversary...

Today Andrew and I celebrate our 7 year anniversary.

It's been a little while between receiving flowers so I was very surprised to be asked up to the security desk to pick up something today at work.

Yay!

Mr Mechanic ??

Andrew spent most of the weekend get greasy under a 60 series landcruiser. Helping out a German Backpacker (4WD trekker??) to get his truck in a condition to let loose on the open road and explore the wilderness that is Australia...

It was with great relief on Sunday afternoon that they were finally finished... I hope that it all goes well for Tim!!

Jess and the judy's

Bride wars to the max

Today I went to see the bride wars movie at southbank. It was in the big cinema.

A visitor at work

A very fast moving bush tukey got lost and tried to peck it's way into our office.....

Man it had a death wish to get in like I had to get out of work... Bring on the christmas holidays....

Stuffed puppies

We took the furkids to Scarborough for a bit on a run on the low tide mud flats.... Met up with some friends who were puppy sitting....



As you can see the doggy beach excursion wiped them out.... Knackered!

Hurry home before the storm...

After the local "mega-storms", I took the opportunity to get the FLUCK out of dodge and try and beat the storm home.... FAIL!!!

So did everyone else by the looks of it.... I love being stuck in traffic with a severe thunderstorm CHARGING around me....




Yeah GREAT idea....

Dog park fun

This is Jess - having a break from the rigors of a hard core session at the dog park... Luck she came back for more frisbee action soon after this shot was taken.