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Pamper day was so beautiful I highly recommend doing one.
For starters, the weather was perfect which is just amazing, because it's still winter. It was forecast for 30 and sunny and not windy and it was literally the best day since autumn. I mean, still dunno what a 30-degree-day is doing in what is clearly winter, but hey, we'll take what we can get.
So, I headed down to the beach and started by going for a run. But 'narti! I hear you cry. That's not pampering at ALL! It's pampering my ego. It makes me feel good about myself to do the fitness, so this was a good start indeed =3 Also this was, like, 9am because apparently that's how I wake up now when alarms aren't involved. DOGS EVERYWHERE. I swear every dog in Adelaide was down at the beach that morning. They were all very well-behaved, though. None came within five metres of me, or even looked like doing so, so that was nice of their owners.
Later on in the year I would then go for a swim, cool off and just starfish on the surface, but the ocean's still pretty arctic and I never got deeper than my ankles. The beach was packed, of course, but it was only kids under 10 who decided to pretend the water was nice. Literally no adults deeper than ankles. The sand was still lovely, though, and after I'd changed into my lovely floaty summer maxi dress, I walked up the beach to breakfast. Zesty eggs with avocado and a big iced coffee, aww yeah. I always have to wait for a table to go there, but it's so worth it. I love that place.
Stayed there for a bit and read, then wandered back to the beach to sit on the lawn and read some more until my only appointment for the day, the massage 8DD After all the shovelling of tonnes of scoria and tonnes of dirt and tonnes of white pebbles, my shoulders needed this badly. It was awesome. She didn't do my face/scalp, which was sad, but she did spend longer on hands and feet, and you know me and hands. I also got some hand cream for myself, and two bottles for Mum and Laura for Christmas.
I never really did lunch, because breakfast was filling enough, so just grazed on tasty treats. Because it was SO gorgeous, ice cream, and a little lime and coconut cheesecake with another iced coffee. Bracegirdles was perfect. They have an upstairs section which was completely empty, and a balcony looking out over Jetty Road. So I just stayed up there with my book for the rest of the afternoon. You can see all the way down to the beach and back to the Hills, and it was so warm and delightful. Best day 8D
I finished off by getting a gourmet lamb pizza from my local with some garlic bread and watched two X-Men movies and it was perfect.
I cannot recommend a pamper day highly enough. I'm still feeling awesome from it three days later. Do it. Do it now.
For starters, the weather was perfect which is just amazing, because it's still winter. It was forecast for 30 and sunny and not windy and it was literally the best day since autumn. I mean, still dunno what a 30-degree-day is doing in what is clearly winter, but hey, we'll take what we can get.
So, I headed down to the beach and started by going for a run. But 'narti! I hear you cry. That's not pampering at ALL! It's pampering my ego. It makes me feel good about myself to do the fitness, so this was a good start indeed =3 Also this was, like, 9am because apparently that's how I wake up now when alarms aren't involved. DOGS EVERYWHERE. I swear every dog in Adelaide was down at the beach that morning. They were all very well-behaved, though. None came within five metres of me, or even looked like doing so, so that was nice of their owners.
Later on in the year I would then go for a swim, cool off and just starfish on the surface, but the ocean's still pretty arctic and I never got deeper than my ankles. The beach was packed, of course, but it was only kids under 10 who decided to pretend the water was nice. Literally no adults deeper than ankles. The sand was still lovely, though, and after I'd changed into my lovely floaty summer maxi dress, I walked up the beach to breakfast. Zesty eggs with avocado and a big iced coffee, aww yeah. I always have to wait for a table to go there, but it's so worth it. I love that place.
Stayed there for a bit and read, then wandered back to the beach to sit on the lawn and read some more until my only appointment for the day, the massage 8DD After all the shovelling of tonnes of scoria and tonnes of dirt and tonnes of white pebbles, my shoulders needed this badly. It was awesome. She didn't do my face/scalp, which was sad, but she did spend longer on hands and feet, and you know me and hands. I also got some hand cream for myself, and two bottles for Mum and Laura for Christmas.
I never really did lunch, because breakfast was filling enough, so just grazed on tasty treats. Because it was SO gorgeous, ice cream, and a little lime and coconut cheesecake with another iced coffee. Bracegirdles was perfect. They have an upstairs section which was completely empty, and a balcony looking out over Jetty Road. So I just stayed up there with my book for the rest of the afternoon. You can see all the way down to the beach and back to the Hills, and it was so warm and delightful. Best day 8D
I finished off by getting a gourmet lamb pizza from my local with some garlic bread and watched two X-Men movies and it was perfect.
I cannot recommend a pamper day highly enough. I'm still feeling awesome from it three days later. Do it. Do it now.