The Sunday in Sydney

Hi,

We're sleeping in the lounge on a mattress so we woke when the kids got up.  Fortunately, for Kitto children, they slept in!  Yay!  7am isn't too bad.

We had such a lot of fun last night at the trivia night. We had a table of eight with me, Mike, Sally, Andrew, Karen, Scott and a couple that we know from when wee Tyler was born that Karen and Scott have stayed in touch with - Noush and Andrew.

There were 24 tables with 8 people so it was huge. There was a table controversy when Scott wanted our joker round to be the movie round because he knows how good Karen is with that. But the rest of us wanted science and nature round. So majority won.

In our movie round we did really well. In fact we got ten out of ten. So we were now a bit worried that Scotty was right and we'd blown our best points chances. Then the science and nature round came and we aced that too. Twenty out of twenty. And we were ten points ahead of the next table by the end of that round and our closest tables had played their joker already. Turns out that was an unassailable lead and we won by 9 points.

Ooossssshhhhh. And that was despite having 5 kiwis on the table and a lot of Australian questions. Ha ha.

We won bottles of wine and double pass movie tickets. I think Karen and Scott have leisure time sorted for the next wee while because the tickets aren't valid in NZ.

They raised 20k for the recent young widow and she was very gracious in her speech. We were pleased to be a part of the community effort.

It did make us awfully tired by the time we got home.  I hit the wall at about 9.30pm after the final round but before the speeches.  So I did sleep very well.  Woke up Sunday and had a leisurely morning with Karen making non-stop breakfasts for everyone.  Then at 11am, Karen's friend Liz collected us for a high tea in town.

The drive in - Sally and I were in the way back

We drove over the harbour bridge into town and parked in the bowels of some building or other.  We still had about two hours to kill and I said I needed some clothes for work so we went into several shops.  But I hate clothes shopping and the other women seemed happy to buy things.  So I came away empty-handed.

I got a photo outside the Samsung shop, just for Josh.  :-p Here it is:

Apparently this was geeky behaviour according to Noush (and she's a clinical psychologist, so it must be true)

Sally, Karen and I wandered through a bookshop before the high tea.  It not only had an ABC Shop inside, but it also had an SBS Shop!  Wow - who knew SBS had shops.

Then we were off to the Swiss Hotel for high tea.

Liz, Mel, Noush, Sally, me, Karen

We stuffed ourselves silly with food and then rolled out to find the car.  A matinee session just got out and we joined loads of people exiting the car park.  But Liz drove expertly out to Quakers Hill and we got back home very fast.  The kids had a relaxing day at home with Mike, Scott and Andrew.

Time for dinner now - Mike is the chef.  Sally, Karen and I are too full to even contemplate dinner.

Bruuuuuce concert number 1 tomorrow night.  Woo hoo!

Enjoy the start of the  working week!
Love,
Angela