The “Mademoiselle” sandwich

At the Oyster Festival

Just back from a to the house. I had one of those perfect Sunday´s. You know one of those days without any particular plans, but everything just turns out to be perfect.

We started with my favorite breakfast at This Little Piggy. I’ve told you about this place waaayyyy too many times so I’ll stop. Not everyone gets crazy obsessed over a plate of food. I get that…..
After breakfast we drove to Ettalong. The Oyster Festivals was on and I always wanted to see it but somehow we missed it every time its on. We started by wine tasting. I choose to only taste cold, crispy dessert vines and a couple of port vines. It was way to hot for red vine. There was food stalls everywhere but we were only interested in oysters. they had a couple of  dressings to choose from. We tried “spicy passion fruit” on one oyster but nope. A pinch of salt and fresh lemon is the way to go.

Its started to get a bit too crowded for us, neither me nor Ambrose are very fond of crowds. Instead we drove to Killcare beach which is one of the best beaches around the coast. A couple of dips in the ocean was perfect for a hot day like this Sunday.

In the afternoon we have manage to squeeze in a short walk, a small trip around the coast and some grocery shopping  for tonight dinner. Now we are sitting with a bag of fresh lychee’s out in the backyard. Need to soak up the rest of this perfect Sunday and get some vitamin D from the sun.

It’s going to be nice to just relax for the rest of this evening. Yesterday was Cappa’s 30th birthday party all day. And around 7pm we were invited to a house party with my old colleagues from Barcelona.

Have a good afternoon everyone. xx

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I am back at the house. Ambrose went away to Newcastle last Saturday morning with 30 boys. They hired a farm for 3 nights for Bart’s buck’s party. As soon as he left I took the train to Bronte, neither Kali (Bart’s fiance) nor I wanted to be alone for 3 nights haha.

Our plans were to do absolutely nothing so cant say I did take too many pictures. I mean who want to see a couple of girls having wine and cheese, chitchatting while watching trash TV like The Kardashian’s?! That is mainly what we did but I did manage to get at least a couple of snapshots on my phone…..here is me on my loooooonnnngggg journey to the big city. It took me 2 hours and 46 minutes door to door!  Its ridiculous. It was raining one hour, and sunny the next, very strange. Luckily I had my Tony Robbins book and these Jacaranda’s trees to look at. Its hard to show you exactly how nice they really are just true my phone. I am in love with them and will for sure have them on my land when we buy a house. It started nice, I bought some wine and some dips. Amy came by and she also had bought some wine. Kali had already got some cheese, dips and of course a couple of bottles of wine…..
5 bottles later….. we were dancing, laughing, gossiping about what the guys were up to on the bucks party. We also helped Kali with her vows for the wedding. She read what she was gonna say and we all cried a little bit. hahha I haven’t had this kind of “girly” night in years. Us girls are so emotional! Jezus!
The second picture is from the next day. We went to bed at 2 am and woke up at 7 am. Me and Kali felt pretty good. Amy on the other hand…..

Needed to be carried clearly. hahahaha. I wasn’t even trying to get Amy and Kali in this picture. I was just obsessed with the Jacaranda tree

The three of us had breakfast at Eugene’s in Bronte. Well, me and Kali did. Amy ordered and as soon as the food came she left and sat outside. She was too sick to even see food. We teased her of course and we were too hungry and tired to keep her company poor thing.

After breakfast we went back home to just chill for a couple of hours. But as soon as the rain stopped we took the opportunity to go for a walk. One of my favorite activity to do in any city, especially in Sydney is to just walk around for hours. Look what nice spots you can find!

Time for lunch! We chose a Brazilian restaurant down by Bronte beach. I had the Brazilian Bowl, cant remember the actual name, but it was something slow-cooked which is my favorite type of preparation of food always.
Too bad you cant see how Bronte beach behind Kali in this picture. The camera of my phone just would not take it in unfortunately.
On Monday morning I went in to the office to do some volunteering. Only Marney was in and as always I love working with her. Met up with Kali after work, we got some red wine and ordered Indian home delivery. We spent most of Monday night planing a weekend away with some of our friends. Renting a house and just enjoying summer. We had a quite early night before I headed back to the house up the coast. Even if it takes forever on the train it is pretty beautiful here. Cant complain.

Now I have a lunch date with Ambrose. Three days has felt more like three weeks so want to spend as much time with as possible.
Have a nice day guys. Ciao

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A very late post from last Saturday night – Kali’s Hen’s party at Mrs Sippy in Double Bay.
I can see from the pictures now after that we actually did this for 10 hours! My makeup slowly is getting messy and my eyes are getting blurry with every cocktail.
I might have mentioned it before that my favorite cocktail is whiskey sour. The bartender (poor guy, he must have alone made over 100 of cocktails for us ) recommended Amaretto Sour which I quickly swapped to, and stuck to for the rest of the hen’s party. How could I have forgotten about this tasty cocktail??

We started off at 1pm and I think I put myself and Nour into an Uber around 11pm. For Kali’s Hen’s party we started with our own are upstairs at Mrs Sippy. We had our own bartender and finger food for a couple of hours which was great.  I got to meet Kali’s family, more of her colleagues and friends, all fun so I know the wedding is gonna be great. If you think about it its not so much the place or anything else that makes an event amazing. Its the people. If they are fun, outgoing, kind, then every event can be really memorable. And that’s what I think will happen on their wedding day. Which is all you could ask for, and Bart & Kali really deserve it because they are great people.

We played games; “who said what” which is a game where we had to guess if either Kali or Bart said a particular statement. We all lost, mainly because Bart lied on most of the things! haha
Like this one for example; ” I do most of the dishes” – Bart said he does. I’ve never seen him even clean one cup!

Yep – more Amaretto Sour to the people!

Barts mum (in the middle/front) sent me this picture. haha such a good one

Pretty girls!

I think Mrs Sippy is a perfect venue for special events such as Hen’s, Bux, birthdays etc. Or even just a fun night out. HERE you can find out more about this venue.

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