As expected we had quite a big night on my last night in Southport, complete with green drinks at a lovely restaurant called Saks. We sat up at the bar to have a couple of pre-dinner drinks. The service was great (and the waiters cute!) although the cocktail barman was a little embarrassed when he spilt a cocktail all over himself while making our green drinks. He recovered well though and managed to do the whole cocktail show without doing it again!!! We feasted on beautiful food and the bonus was that being berthed in the marina we were entitled to 50% off our meals. This, and only this is the reason that we seemed to spend a significant amount more on alcohol. We were the last to leave and had cleaned them out of whatever goes into the green drinks we were having. It was a fun farewell for me.
At some stage during my time in Southport we went to Max Brenners. I suspect it was Thursday morning, after my farewell night as Im a bit vague about when! Now a lot of you have probably been there numerous times but Im sure it was the first time Ive had one of their cappuccinos! OMG...topped with liquid chocolate and in a kangaroo cup, so named as it has a little "pouch" (or lip really) on the side of the cup where they place a square of chocolate so that it melts and can flow into the coffee or just be sucked off the side. Amazing...I so wanted to have another but it was so rich, that would have just been wrong!!
When Alicia and her two munchkins Harvey (age 3) and Lily (age 20 months) arrived to pick me up on Thursday morning (19 May), we walked past the restaurant and saw the waiter who looked quite surprised to see me up and about!! I was a little surprised too, truth be known. Alicia's husband and my good buddy Jamie was away travelling with his work which is a regular occurrence as he is a bit of a high flyer...:). Alicia and I and the kids had lunch, and did some shopping as Alicia was about to start a new job. During this time we had torrential rain. Not good when you are in thongs...eek! We headed home to Hawthorne in Brisbane where they moved to in February. The house is amazing and it is good for them to be close to Alicias parents and family. As this was the first time I had seen Alicia since leaving in January there was the obligatory night of welcoming to be had...I think we finished "catching up" about 3am. That was all good fun but the problem was that Jamie arrived home on the Friday and that meant, for me, another night of welcoming...so night 2 Jamie and I finished about 3am again. Alicia had excused herself early and while I thoroughly enjoyed the 'welcomings', my reserves were running low!!
Somehow the weeks started slipping away again, filled with yoga, exploring the area, visits from Rob that I met in North Arm Cove and thinking about where to next! Watching the football was a priority and Alicia's father kindly offered for us to watch the matches on his big screen TV on Fox...an offer too good to refuse. Of course each match was accompanied by many txts between Di (my fellow Carlton supporter) and I on performance, encouragement and general cheering.
I also had an obsession with cooking which began quite soon after arriving and spent much of my time in the kitchen, quite happily making dishes ranging from caramalised onions to sweet brown rice and mushrooms to mediterannean baked vegetables to tuna chilli pasta. Some of the recipes were from my book "If Buddha came to Dinner" How to Nourish your Body and Awaken your Spirit by Hale Sofia Schwartz. Its an awesome book and has some great recipes but the principles behind it about how to eat and why we eat the way we do are really interesting. Unfortunately it also suggests how to do a cleanse which I thought was a good idea to try. Either I was really "dirty" or it was a bad time as I ended up really sick and ended up going to the doctor and discovered I had some sort of gastro, not because of, but in addition to the cleanse. I felt really cleansed by the end of it all anyway!!
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