EASTER 2o13

I love yoghurt and even tho I can't eat too much of it, I'll always make room especially for fresh yoghurt. Downstairs to where I work they recently opened The Yoghurt Club and this stuff is the bomb. You can either go in there and order a smoothie (either dairy or non dairy based) or there is the option to have fresh (almost like soft serve ice-cream) yoghurtand you have a selction of fresh fruit or if you have a sweet tooth lollies to put on top.

 

 

Mine was a total of $3.50 I think thats cheap and perfect for a 3pm snack.

 

We left for our easter holidays on Wednesday so Tuesday night after work I went on the hunt for a perfect sized travel bag my dreams where crushed as I went from store to store trying to find something suitable but nothing surfaced. I left and headed down to the road to MYER and stocked up on some MAC foundation and CK Euphoria perfume.

 

 

Our flight was at 10am on Wednesday - I always have a brief moment of panic thinking that the taxi wont arrive then I'll be late and we wont get the plane. Does this ever happen to you?

 

 

Does anyone else get freaked out by these hand dyers at the airport? I always feel like my rings are going to go flying off somewhere! Best invention for hygiene tho.

 

I posted this photo of Instagram while away, saying you know your in with your boyfriends mum when she lets you cook in her kitchen. I love cooking in D's mums kitchen its recently been renovated and this woman knows the true understanding of organisation. Draws and spaces for everything, "every day use" "special occasion cutlery" "semi special occasion cutlery" hahaha.

 

 

I made a lasanga and it got good reviews all around - Maybe I will make a good wife one day.

 

Speaking of food in true Greek style we had a big family get together on Saturday night featuring a lamb on the spit. Mouth watering goodness.

 

 

I tell you what - My greek family never dissapoints.

The weather turned freezing while we where there which forced me to bring out jumpers, coats and jeans..Not that I'm complaining I love that type of weather.

 

 

All in all it was so good to see all the 101 family members, although its not easter for us until May 5th it was still good to catch up, eat and celebrate and get away from the city for a week or so.

 

 

As you can tell there was way too much chocolate, olives, feta and other goodies.

Both of D's yiayia's are amazing cooks and never take no for an answer by the time we had finished eating I was felt like I was going to pop. I could of almost done my own April fools joke by posting a picture of my belly on FB and telling everyone I was pregnate I was that full.

 

Best part of all yesterday morning before we left to head to the airport his yiayia came over and brought my all time favourite spanakopita. If you dont know what that is its a greek dish - pastry filled with spinach (or silver beat) mixed with cheese and herbs.

 

It wasnt all fun and games, the first two days of our holidays the boyfriend was still recovering from his cold I think he is the most affectionate when he is sick. So lucky me caught his cold which I had actually managed to fight off before heading away on holidays.

Let me tell you flying with a cold is not fun. I'm not sure if we where flying higher than normal but about 20 minutes into our flight my ear started stinging and then the pain got more and more intense, the boyfriend suggested I start trying to "pop" my ears by holding my nose and blowing.. I kept sticking my finger in my ear but nothing would help I ended up asking the flight attendant on suggestions and she gave me a cup of ice to suck on (?) I later read on google (my virtual Dr) that you shouldnt fly any type of cold or flu! My ear is still pretty sore so I'm hoping it will sort itself out.

This is what we arrived home to.. Typical Melbourne.
I hope everyone had a great easter and cant wait to catch up on whats been blogging while i've been away on holidays.


 

FLOWERS, CHOCOLATE AND CARS

On Friday I had to head into the city for a client meeting and afterwards I had a message from my boss asking if I could pick him up a bunch of flowers for his EA as it was her last day. I thought this would be easy, I'm a girl, I love flowers. Simple so I replied back with a yes!

I was soon regretting this decision.

My meeting was in Queen Street and I found this florist around the corner thanks to my trusty iPhone in Bourke street, as soon as I walked in I knew I was in way over my head, the florist wasn't English speaking (or very well) I told her I needed some really girly flowers I soon spotted these pink ones for $70.00 she then took them to to the corner and charged me $120.00. Go Figure? I knew that  questioning her was pointless. The amount of looks I got treading through the city with  my portfolio, huge box of flowers and high heels heading back to the office in Southbank - Priceless.

On the plus side, when I got back to the office this little bunny was sitting on my keyboard. The Easter bunny came early.  I wont deny the fact that he was demolished straight away.

I recently listed bits and pieces on eBay and I was actually surprised at how popular my GHD was. Best part of all the winner paid instantly. Don't you love that?

If you've been following my blog for a while you'll know around this time last year I was going to buy an Audi A1.. I'm not sure if I blogged about this but I decided against it. I couldn't justify dropping $30,000 and decided not to buy it. I have been looking around at what small, zippy, city girl cars that I like I was looking at the i20 as its great value brand new drive away at $15,990 but on Monday night I saw a Suzuki Swift for sale and before I knew it I had brought it!

It's silver and all things nice, I think they are so cute, zippy and I fell in love.

The Boyfriend joked that the boot wasn't big enough for all of my shopping bags ha! but never fear it has a big back seat for all of those extra bags. I put it up tomorrow (Monday) after work I'm excited.

Its a short week for me this week as we are heading away for Easter early as we managed to get cheap flights to the boyfriends parents place. We leave on Wednesday.

I need to pack and we all know how much I suck at that.