Ahh the easter long weekend a blissful four days without work, time to relax, chill out and maybe even have some fun…. or so the story goes. The initial plan for easter was lots of sittng around watching dvds and stitching. Throw in a phone call or two the US a bit of WoW and there you have it. How wrong I was. The weekend was a whirlwind of activity, however all in all it ended coming out quite well.

Friday I was woken up by a call from my Fathers partner informing me he was on his way to the hospital yet again with skyrocketing blodpressure. This is not an overly unusual set of events as my father is 80 this year and has ahd more than a few health problems in the past decade. No trip was really called for on my behalf as really there was no idea how long he would be in the hospital etc etc. Eventually I found out that he was indeed fine and was back home whinging about getting old again. Really up until two years ago when he had a stroke you would of thought he was 60 not 80 but the stroke has had it’s effects and I think he is more shaken these days than he used to be. Saturday we spent the day actually going down and visiting him to see his impressive tiling job on thier new patio and for a bit of lunch. I still marvel that my father can sctually sit in the same room these days for a couple of hours without tearing each others heads off. We even managed to talk politics without screaming it was quite a change :D. Sunday was yet more family visitations and easter egg hunts with the mayhem that only five children can bring. Thankfully I can say that I escaped easter unscathed and free of chocolate this year, which is how I had hoped it would be. The last thing my expanding frontier needs is chocolate. hehe

The rest of the weekend was spent with friends, I managed that bit of Wow and even some stitching on saturday and sunday evening though all told not many hours were possible. St Nick did progress though and if you look at the old picture here you can see that I even managed to fill in a lot of those little gaps (eep I hadn’t realised how long it had been since I had worked on this and updated). I’m still a long way off from my goal for this month and don’t think I will, progress is progress though and slowly it is coming together.
Monday night was wonderful, A large group all met up for coffee with a dear friend from Melbourne who was up for the weekend. We sat around and chatted for a good few hours before heading off to the pancake manor for dinner and more cathcing up. It was a great night with great company and probably the highlight of my easter weekend. Really mad me want to go back down to Melbourne again too. Loads of plans were made for our next trip down which at this point I am hoping will be June next year if not sooner.

While not part of Easter exactly tuesday night is also well worth the mention. We headed out to dinner with said friends from melbourne once more, but this time to a delightful little restaurant in New Farm called Anise. What got us there over anywhere else is that it doubles as an absinthe bar of sorts as well. I think I will post again later about this though as it really deserves more than a cursory mention and I have some cute piccies from the night as well.

Apologies for the long rambling post. I hope no one got too bored. There will be a few more over the course of today and tomorrow too I think I need to add piccies of fudeys RR still and my SAL progress for this week as well.