Marvellous Monday

Even though there was much to do, I still enjoyed a slow start to the morning.

I was expecting my photos to have their framing finished today, so I phoned to confirm, but they weren’t going to be finished until after lunch so Adoring Husband and I drove to my happy place.

I had birthday parcels to wrap and send to my brother and sister as well as customer parcels to mail interstate.

The training room needed to be cleared, vacuumed and set up for morning tea on Tuesday.

All of that was completed and we were heading into The Bay at 11.30am.

I asked AH where he would like to have lunch and he chose the fish and chip shop at the water park so that was our first stop.

We got to the service counter and completed the contact tracing sheet while the attendant ran around taking food to tables and doing ‘stuff’ in the kitchen. We stood waiting for about ten minutes until she returned to serve us.

Our meal of choice was GF crumbed snapper with chips. Unfortunately, she informed us that the only available GF option was grilled fish and salad. That was disappointing. Their GF crumbed fish is delicious. We graciously declined and decided to try somewhere else.

Aquavue was our next choice where we completed the contact tracing sheet and ordered two garlic prawns with rice, a coffee and a tropical frappe. It was delicious, the view was great, the weather mild and just for a change the restaurant wasn’t too busy.

It was unusually quiet in The Bay today.

We stopped at Go Natural to search for organic chicken feet. There was only one packet available, but I discovered some GF beef pies from Byron Bay which we had for dinner tonight. What a great find! Delicious.

We picked up the photos from the framers.

Bunnings was next on the itinerary to get coil for unblocking the kitchen pipes and some new Christmas displays for our front garden. We already have numerous Santa clauses, so this time we chose two reindeer.

Grocery shopping was next and I searched for a few Christmas displays for the shop. A silver Christmas tree, a silver bow for the front door and some tinsel for the chairs that sit on either side of the front doors. I found some great silver decal baubles to stick on the front windows and a timber tree that says “We wish you a Merry Christmas”.

The last stop before leaving town was the drive through coffee place for AH to buy his afternoon caffeine fix.

We were home by 3.40pm and I spent the afternoon trying to stay awake.

Right now AH is gently snoring beside me. Because of a lingering and annoying cough, he has slept in the lounge room for the last two nights. He needs to sleep upright to reduce the cough frequency. I doubt he’ll spend the entire night here in the bedroom. The cough will get the better of him during the night.

It’s almost 11pm. I must have got my second wind! Sleep time for me.

Nite all.