A whole weeks worth of catchups

I can't believe it's Sunday night and I've got to back to work tomorrow! This week has whizzed by and I seem to have lost it somewhere. I guess time flies when you're busy. Last week was a bit of a fmily week as M's parents are down from Queensland.

Tuesday 12th Jan

Went to dinner at Bay Tinh in Marrickville with M's parents, uncles and aunts. The food was sensational! We've been there before and I just love Vietnamese food to death. I would eat it everyday if I could. Actually I almost do as I try and have beef pho at least once a week. Noodles, beef, onion and soup, what's not to laove I ask you? And it's not that bad for you either as there isn't too much that's deep fried. Unlike Japanese where I love all the fried stuff like katsu and teriyaki tofu....anyway, I'm digressing!

Here's what we had for dinner:

Doesn't that look great? There was crispy vietnamese style pancake with prawns & chicken, soft shell crab, grilled beef rolls, prawn meat rolls wrapped around sugar cane, prawn & chicken volcano (rice paper wrap your own rolls) & a vegetable soup with noodles to finsh up with (no pic). Sooo full by the end of it all!

We got home at about midnight or so to find out our darling puppy had peed on our bed!!! Not happy at all! So I've decided if he doesn't want to act like our usual adorable fur baby he can be treated like a dog. Time for a manners refresher course. He spent the night outdoors and we spent an hour and a half fixing up our bed.

Thursday 14th Jan

Had one of my bosses up from Melbourne today and we had a workshop on going paperless. FUN....

Went to dinner at M's uncle's place and had this beautiful dish his mother cooked. Didn't get a picture of it but it was salmon poached in mango pulp served with a macadamia crust, and a rocket & roasted tomato salad sprinkled with balsamic. It was soooo good!

Since Bailey is still serving time we put him out on the balcony for the night. He whined for 1.5hrs and finally stopped at 1am!! Then he had the hide to start up again at 4am. Needless to say it took me a while to get started on Friday. Bad timing as I had to go through something with bossman 2 and I wasn't really coherent enough to make sense.... (>.<)

Friday 15th Jan

Couldn't wait to get home and veg out with the boys (I should clarify here that I am talking about M & Bails!). Had dinner at home and watched a movie. Conked out. Bliss!

Saturday 16th Jan

Since this weekend was a dedicated "us" weekend we wandered into town around lunchtime after a nice homemade brunch of scrambled eggs and bacon.

That night we decided to have a spontaneous dinner out at El Bulli around the corner. We started with a drink at our local water hole, one that I've been dying to try out as it always looked good from the outside. To our surprise we enjoyed it and found out they served a great pub menu. Must go there for a meal one day next week or the next.

Anyway, when we finally got a table at El Bulli (note: you cannot book for 2) we had a smorgasboard of:

• PATATAS BRAVAS - crispy fried potatoes in tomato chilli sauce
• GAMBAS a la SEVILLANA - Panfried prawns in tomato based garlic, chilli & olive oil salsa
• GNOCCI con PICOS AZUL - Homemade crispy gnocchi in a serano ham, blue vein cheese & white wine cream sauce
• Bread
• Carafe of red sangria

I promise to take pics of the tapas next time but the lighting in there is quite low and I couldn't get any decent ones with my phone.

That brings us full circle to Sunday. We watched a few episodes of Top Gear and a movie called RocknRolla. I love Guy Ritchie and his films never fail to amuse and entertain. It's not in the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells range but it was great in it's own right.

Sorry there weren't many pictures so I'll finish off with a nice random cartoon for you...