Chocolate Chocolate everywhere!!!
WOW - I dont think that I have ever eaten so much chocolate and food in a single long weekend in a very very long time.
This long weekend Jeremy and I got each other our Easter eggs on Thursday night which means that the chocolate eating started on Friday morning :-)
Then on Saturday we went out to celebrate my Mums birthday (very belated as her Birthday was in January, but with the wedding and all the dinner was delayed). Anyway we went to dinner at Crushers Leagues Club and indulged in an all-you-can-eat extravaganza! This place has 4 seperate food bars and includes a Seafood and Salad Bar, Chinese and Fried food bar, Roasts, Pasta and Soup bar and of course the Dessert Bar... 2 dinners and 2 desserts later I was quite done. We were all very very surprised by the slim girl behind us who had to have eaten about 7 plates of food and didnt even look uncomfortable?!? Where did she put it???
Crushers for all of you have never been there - it is a club located in The Grange in Brisbane and has a very mixed clientelle, so the people watching alone is worth it!
Easter Sunday saw us taking the drive down to Jeremys parents place at Coorabell (near Byron) - more chocolate eating! Jeremys parents (Judy & Roel) had just spent the last 3 days at the Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival (with our nephew Daniel) and were understandably very tired. Daniel was very excited as he scored autographs from members of the Cat Empire - seeing them so far has been the highlight of his life. I remember when I was about 14 I went to see Bon Jovi with my friend Vicki at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre and at the time I thought that was the ultimate experience Ever - please do not remind me too often of this fact - it was the very early 90s, big hair was still in and true teen angst was still another year or two away!
Back to my weekend - Monday morning and more chocolate :-) we decided to go to the Brunswick Pub for lunch. Unfortunately we were not the only people with this brilliant idea and the food when you ordered it was an hours wait. In our case it was about 2 hours as they forgot our order!!! So lunch for me today was at 3pm!
Due to the NASTY holiday traffic we waited until 5:30 to leave for Brisbane. Traffic wasnt great, but it was not too bad either. A quick stop at Wok on Inn for some take-away noodles and we were home by 8pm!
So now I am sitting here thinking of some of the things that I am grateful for:
This long weekend Jeremy and I got each other our Easter eggs on Thursday night which means that the chocolate eating started on Friday morning :-)
Then on Saturday we went out to celebrate my Mums birthday (very belated as her Birthday was in January, but with the wedding and all the dinner was delayed). Anyway we went to dinner at Crushers Leagues Club and indulged in an all-you-can-eat extravaganza! This place has 4 seperate food bars and includes a Seafood and Salad Bar, Chinese and Fried food bar, Roasts, Pasta and Soup bar and of course the Dessert Bar... 2 dinners and 2 desserts later I was quite done. We were all very very surprised by the slim girl behind us who had to have eaten about 7 plates of food and didnt even look uncomfortable?!? Where did she put it???
Crushers for all of you have never been there - it is a club located in The Grange in Brisbane and has a very mixed clientelle, so the people watching alone is worth it!
Easter Sunday saw us taking the drive down to Jeremys parents place at Coorabell (near Byron) - more chocolate eating! Jeremys parents (Judy & Roel) had just spent the last 3 days at the Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival (with our nephew Daniel) and were understandably very tired. Daniel was very excited as he scored autographs from members of the Cat Empire - seeing them so far has been the highlight of his life. I remember when I was about 14 I went to see Bon Jovi with my friend Vicki at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre and at the time I thought that was the ultimate experience Ever - please do not remind me too often of this fact - it was the very early 90s, big hair was still in and true teen angst was still another year or two away!
Back to my weekend - Monday morning and more chocolate :-) we decided to go to the Brunswick Pub for lunch. Unfortunately we were not the only people with this brilliant idea and the food when you ordered it was an hours wait. In our case it was about 2 hours as they forgot our order!!! So lunch for me today was at 3pm!
Due to the NASTY holiday traffic we waited until 5:30 to leave for Brisbane. Traffic wasnt great, but it was not too bad either. A quick stop at Wok on Inn for some take-away noodles and we were home by 8pm!
So now I am sitting here thinking of some of the things that I am grateful for:
- Wok on Inn noodles are always good
- Pay TV
- Easter Chocolate
- Queensland Weather
- Alexis (my laptop)
- Mum & Paul who look after Tyra the Tonkinese while we are away
- Willow who is a great Dog
- Soda water after I have eaten too much!
- and many more things - but these come to mind right now.
posted by Midnight Fury @ 8:40 pm
1 Comments:
At 7:24 am,
Licia said…
You know Bec, Easter is one of the holidays that is celebrated the most differently here than in America. My early Easter memories have very little to do with chocolate...but the last two Easters in Brisbane have been ALL about lots of chocolate! Growing up, our big easter tradition centered around eggs, but not candy ones. Real eggs -- white hard-boiled eggs, that we dyed all kinds of colours. Sometimes we used crayons to draw patterns on the eggs before the dying, or stickers after they they were dyed, and then we had Easter Egg hunts with the multi-coloured eggs. We ate hard-boiled eggs for weeks! I guess the chocolate is a nice change :) But most of the important things about Easter are the same -- Family, hope, faith, all that kind of stuff. It's still weird to me though to celebrate that in Auttumn. Easter is all about Spring... new life and the snow melting! Oh well. Hmm...this is a very long comment! I better go! Have a good day :)
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