Jury Duty

Well its been an interesting week, I went to the Jury Duty selection in the city last week, got picked and have been stuck there ever since, can't tell you what its about until next week (hopefully it will be finished by next week) when its over. I can tell you about the food though, today was rather exciting (well maybe not all that exciting), we have worked our way up from normal sandwiches to gormet sandwiches to baguets and now we are onto hot food. When I went in on the first day I walked down Pitt Street Mall, think I will need to have an evening of shopping sometime this week.

Happy Birthday to Poppa, Its next week but he is 91.

Its Been a While

Well its been a great weekend Friday night started out at Vanessa's place with a movie (The Holiday and Wimbledon) and Thai food night. While we were out hunting down some cookies and cream ice cream, I stumbled on an amazing florist that was decked out with so many flowers (most likely for mothers day) that they were all the way over the footpath right up to the road. It wasn't your standard florist, it had some flowers that you really don't see very often, such as Ornamental Cabbages. I couldn't resist, they are kind of ugly but really amazing all at once. I have some purple ones but I believe they also come in cream as well. I won't try to describe them other than they look like a rose made from cabbage leaves, take a look at the pics.
Saturday came and went like a flash of lightning and finished with dinner at a German Restaurant in Beverly Hills that I am not even going to attempt to spell the name of. It was Chris's Birthday. Happy Birthday Chris! It was a great night, with great food, most of the boys ordered Pork Knuckle, they were like excited little kids when they came out. I wish I had my camera to take some photos. I ate way too much food (Chicken Schnitzel with salad and potatoes that had so much butter on them that I am wondering how I have not yet had a heart attack. Not so good for the waist line either).

Today, being Sunday was once again filled with flying, I was judging the competition up at Warnervale (about 45 mins flying time north of Sydney), always good fun, this time the competitors were sitting in the right hand seat of the aircraft, I think they found that a little more challenging than expected and it definitely kept me on my toes, especially with the really skinny runway at Warnervale, they seemed to want to run of the right hand side of the runway, which really isn't a desired thing to be doing.

Mum is about to pop over for Mothers Day (Matts cooking a yummie dinner), she should be in the car on the way here now so there is no chance of her reading this before we give her our gift. We got her a hot pink iPod Shuffle. Something a little different and out of the usual gift selection that we would choose for Mum but I think she will get some use out of it, or at least I hope that she will.

This week on Wednesday I have Jury Duty in the city, I don't really want to get picked, it all sounds a little daunting. Will let you know how it goes. I hope to see Bron and maybe Alice and Lee for Lunch though, which will be very nice.