The Long Weekend

As usual, I am delayed in my blog posts, but I couldn't not post about the Easter long weekend.. we had waay too much fun!

 

 

 

On the Thursday night we headed out to our local with the usual crowd and as usual it ended with MacDonalds at 3am.

 

 

Nutella and Strawberry Pizza - $4!

 

Our Good Friday started surrounded by all the hungover-feeling-sorry-for-themselves friends from the night before, and even though we had every intention to make it to the Royal Easter Show, fate stood in our way.. after driving all the way there to be faced with a sign saying "No casual parking, all lots are full", we turned around and went home to have a scary movie marathon with a few friends.

 

One of the movies we chose was Australian. Do I need to say much more? What is it about Aussie accents in movies that just get so darn annoying?!

 

On Saturday we headed west to have lunch with my mum at Liana's in Parramatta.

 

 

After parking we found this... what a lovely, unexpected surprise - thanks council man.

 

 

Mum's chicken (on the left) actually tasted like pancakes with maple syrup on them.. for real! It was so strange, but  uber delicious.

 

 

Fro yo dessert!

 

Saturday night and we headed to Tharens in the Cross. Do you remember last time I went there? It is a great place for lots of photos with silly hats, and just like last time we had a great night with our friends.

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Sunday was just more movies with A - my family doesn't do too much these days, not now we are too old for Easter egg hunting.

 

On Easter Monday we finally made it back to the Royal Easter Show and had a really good day walking around, looking at everything.

 

 

Have you seen the "goats screaming like humans" on YouTube? We saw it for the first time a few days before the easter show and A thinks it is the funniest thing evverrrr! A has a hugely infectious laugh so when he starts laughing, we all do.. he literally laughs when you even mention the goats, so it was no surprise he was excited when we saw the goats at the show...

 

 

 

...and then like another sign of fate, we heard a goat screaming like a human. What were the freaking chances? I am pretty sure it made A's whole long weekend!

Bits & Pieces

 This weekend was pretty quiet. Well actually I had a lot on and felt like I was running around like a mad woman, but there was no partying involved so to me that constitutes a quiet weekend.

Friday night we spent watching espisodes of the American Voice, Saturday I went to dance class and wedding dress shopping (post to come) and then on Sunday I went to lunch with some of my girls at Bitton in Alexandria.

The lunch was suppper yummy, but I was too buys gossipping to remember to take any photos - sorry, you will just have to take my word for it, and if you get the chance, go to bitton! It is a french restaurant owned by David Bitton, who personally greeted us and commented on our beauty (*blush*) like a true french man. My friend Jamila goes there a lot, so we were even given complimentary creme brulee. It was to die for!! I must also mention here how affordable the cafe is - the most expensive lunch item was $24 and if I remember correctly that was seafood. Definitely (I always have trouble spelling that word, who knows why? Definitely not me!hahaha) go and check it out!!

Okay on to my random pictures and ramblings.... 

I went to Ettamogah Pub for my friends birthday last Tuesday. The have 15 different types of Schnitzel.. yes 15!!! This one had bacon, avocado, cheese and hollandaise sauce MnmmNm. The next one I have my eye on has WEDGES ON TOP OF IT!!!

Last Friday at Court the media was going crazy.

 It is hard to see but they were interviewing someone out the front.

 YEY!!! My baby is back on my finger, all clean and looking brand new!

View of the harbour from Federal Court.

A sent this to me this week. It was the red ribbon I told you I had to cut to "enter" my 25th year.

 A's birthday is on Thursday - not sure how I am going to top him, but I will spoil him rotten trying!

my roommate sent me this picture, which was apparently taken on our night at Tharens. I say apparently because I have no recollection of this point in the evening.

everyone has a bottle of Grey Goose stashed beside their bed, right? :P

 

Present from my bestie - Peter Alexander onesie, complete with bum flap.

I LOOOVEEE IT and want to live in it!

some minor alcohol shopping for next weekend's party. ahaha.

Thought my speedo looked cool (hey! this is a random post lol), when I was dropping A off at the airport last night.

He is away for the next few nights, so I will be star fishing in the bed like there's no tomorrow!!

My costume arrived at work today!!!

I should have believed this warning, but I was waaay too excited not to open it.....

now my desk looks like I attacked a bird. WOOPS!!

How was your weekend?

Tharens

For our engagement, two of our friends bought A and I dinner at Tharens with 11 of our closest friends.

Tharens is a cosy little themed restaurant in Kings Cross.

As soon as I walked into Tharens and was greeted by a waitress dressed as Snow White, I knew it was going to be a good night! All around the restaurant and at the table were a  plethora of hats, wigs and feather bowers and I am pretty confident in saying that we tried most of them on!

First hats with bestie

 

 Where'd I go??

After all of our guests had arrived and we settled in, the waitress bought garlic bread and salad to the table, and then asked us to pick one entree and one main each. The choices were great. I had the prosciutto wrapped chicken with bocconcini for an entree and the three cheese (mmm I love cheese) chicken for the main.

my entree

I'm a happy little Vegemite!

The food was deeeelicious! As Tharens is a themed restaurant, I have to be honest, I was not expecting much at all from the food. I thought the food would be average, but the entertainment would make up for it. I was wrong. The food was yummy and plentiful. So were the many many alcoholic drinks we consumed that night (as can be seen by the pictures) haha.

During the courses we were entertained by a Magician called Dodgy Dave, who got us involved in a variety of card tricks. He even managed to make a hanky disappear into his hand and come out in A's fly! He was awesome and a good character.

 pulling out the hanky lol

Drunken Witch

After dinner the old school tunes were cranked up a bit more, but then a COP walked in... ..... a naughty COP!!! The party next to ours was a birthday party and they had hired a stripper. I had made friends with that table throughout the night and so one of the girls grabbed me for pole position before the action started. Thank you honey!! A kept trying to shield my innocent eyes. Bless him.

hello police man!

After the stripper cleared we continued dancing in the restaurant with our funny hats on until we decided we all needed to go home. We had drank ourselves to bedtime.

Birthday hat!

All in all it was a great night!! The staff at Tharens were so attentive and fun, everyone enjoyed themselves and I would go back there any day!

Until next time, here are some more drunken hat photos :)



apparently this is how I roll...