Sep 04, 2008 21:55
Feathers and public transport this time. Out sprang 500 words at work when I should have been writing a referral letter and they came so easily, unlike the other things that have all stuck at various places. Hopefully it will finish itself tomorrow morning. I'm debating whether to do NaNoWriMo this year, as my tax is already done and I theoretically should have a little more spare time as I was still finishing it last November. I'd love to get my horse riding experiences into a story somehow.
Hubby put on 5kg during our week away. Cooked breakfast that includes scrambled eggs and a poached egg as well as bacon, tomato, cereal, fruit and toast will do it when all you normally eat is porridge. Add in a 2 course restaurant meal every night and there you go. I haven't braved the scales, but I was way more conservative with my breakfast. I'm hoping my gain was only about 2kg.
We succumbed to pizza one night. I ordered our usual 'vegetarian with prawns' and was stunned to be asked how many prawns we wanted. I'm afraid my reply was a stupefied 'huh'? It turns out prawns were $1.50 each. I pulled a figure out of the air - 4 - and forked out $22 + $6 = $28. That's about double what I pay here. You can get quite artistic with 4 prawns! We ate at a steak house, an Italian restaurant, the 'Reef and Beef', had the carvery at the place attached to where we stayed, ate the first night there too (a la carte menu) plus did the progressive dinner tour. I think we used up all our dining out for the rest of the year as that lot probably totalled $500. I haven't had the credit card statement to check yet. All were lovely places to eat, with the steak house being the most average and not counting the pizza. The fish at the Reef & beef was simply magnificent - flavoursome, melt-in-the-mouth and it turned out to be imported Aussie red emperor., which was disappointing; I thought we were eating local fish. The progressive dinner was an experience, with the dessert being the best of the 4 courses, although the soup wasn't bad.
holiday,
writing