School Holidays

Well one week already over for the Vic school holidays.

Mmmmm what have we done.

I took Madeleine her friend Laura and Laura's little sister Emma to the Melbourne Show on Wednesday. We caught the 8.15am train and got to the show around 9:30am. When we arrived at the showgrounds there was no power, something had happened in the show bag pavilion that had caused the blackout of the whole show. Luckily that didn't last long as they have a 2 for 1 offer on the rides between 9:30 and 11am.

We had a great but very exhausting day, the crowds by the afternoon were humongous. The last couple of years we have gone on AFL Grand Final day and the crowds are much more civilized. The day didn't start all that well though, the girls were on their 3rd ride when Emma VOMITED all over Madeleine. Well as you can imagine that took a bit of the shine off first thing (we'd only been there 1/2 hour) I thought Madeleine was going to throw up as well. So anyhoo that took about 30 - 40 minutes to clean up. I had to make sure I really got it all or she was going to stink all day.

After that we decided that the rides were out for a while. Although Emma felt a lot better we just went and did more conventional show things. Like check out the animals etc now Madeleine would like a pair of RATs for pets. Don't know how the cat will feel about that. We also spent alot of time in the big pavilion that you get the food samples. Gotta love that and the girls tried dip and dot ice cream. By 2:30pm we'd all had enough and we headed home.


That evening I was going out for Thai with a couple of girlfriends, which I did and it was lovely but by about 9:30pm I'd had enough and was quickly running out of steam. It's such a big day at the show and all the travelling. All worth it but exhausting. I figure next year the girls will be old enough to go on their own.






















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Thursday we all went out to dinner with our friends the Fagans and the Browns. It was Taylor and ALex's birthdays who are my friend Julie's children. We went to a local hotel and while it was nice to catch up with everyone the food and the service at the hotel wasn't that great. With the prices Pubs charge for meals now days you may as well got to a restaurant where there is table service.
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Friday afternoon I took Madeleine to see the movie wildchild which she really enjoyed and then after that we went clothes shopping. She was one very happy camper after purchasing 3 new tops from Peninsula Surf. One of which she has on in the layout below.
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Saturday we spent the afternoon at a friends house watching the AFL grand final and eating ourselves stupid. Phylliss certainly knows how to put on a spread, the food was very very yummy.

Sunday we had lunch at the Mentone Hotel with Neil's folks and his sister. Do you ever get the feeling we eat out alot??? No wonder I can't loose weight. Ah well I do enjoy all the socialising.
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Layouts

1. These are the beautiful tulips that work gave me as part of my farewell gift when I left in April. The design is from Pencil lines sketch 103.

GIFT: pp: BG Ambrosia line, ALPA: Velvet thickers and BG Ambrosia stickers, Scenic Route journalling tag; Kaiser Bling and BG Ambrosia flourish sticker.






















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2: This layout is from one of the recent workshops over Kim Archers at home website. If you never have you really should head over and sign up for one of her classes. They are all fabulous. I love Kim's design always a delight to work with.


The photos of Madeleine are from this weekend. I've used off cuts from the Love Elsie range of pp's and Love Elsie softie buttons.

















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Well I think I've gone on long enough for one post, have a great week everyone.


cheers

Leeanne xxx