To New Traditions

Yesterday was Australia Day and traditionally we spend the morning at the beach followed hopefully by a BBQ and the fireworks at night.

This year no beach because the husband sprained his ankle, no BBQ due to sheer laziness and busyness, but we did watch the fireworks on top of a bridge, although it was so far away the lights were tiny. No firework photos but instead, car lights.



And for lunch....

Australia - the best place to live.

Bigger is Better!

Chess

Checkers

Snakes 'n' Ladders

Jenga

Connect Four

Loving the fun games at work :)

Pondering

The English language is strange and full of things that contradict and don't make sense.

To extend the shelf life of meat I freeze it.
When I'm ready to cook I take it out of the freezer to defrost it.
Shouldn't the term 'defrost' really be 'defreeze' cause I 'froze' the meat not 'frosted' it??

Nicknames...

... are an odd concept.

Whilst watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy with the wife a while back, I couldn't help but comment on the nicknames of 'McDreamy' and 'McSteamy'.

I turn to the wife and ask - "What's mine?"

The wife pauses, then chuckles... "McMuffin"

I'll take that as a compliment. Somehow.

Ice Skating

Went Ice Skating with the kids today, loving the skates on this little boy.

U2 - 360° Tour (feat. Jay-Z)

For the husband's birthday I bought tix to the U2 concert and fully cemented my title of 'Bestest Wife EVER'!

The husband was so enthusiastic he wanted to line up at 9:00am even though U2 were only performing at 8:30pm. Finally he agreed to go at 3:00pm instead.

We rush to Gate 8 where we were told that Gate 24 was taking the first 3000 people into the inner circle. The excitement level rose significantly at the thought of being in this special section normally costing more than $300 per person. But unfortunately we just missed out. As we entered the stadium all disappointment left us as we saw 'The Claw' and hurried for the best standing position. We managed to get prime positions front and centre right up against the barrier of the 360° stage, which actually worked out in our favour as we didn't have to crane our neck to see the performance. And Bono was literally 2 metres away and we could see every fibre of him and every strand of hair and bead of sweat.

It was an awesome night and I can't go on enough about how great it really was.

Jay-Z

Jay-Z singing Empire State of Mind

SET LIST:

Return of the Stingray Guitar
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until The End Of The World
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
North Star (An Acoustic Version)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
In A Little While
Miss Sarejevo
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Remix)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scarlet
Walk On

ENCORE

One
Where The Streets Have No Name

ENCORE 2
Ultraviolet (Light My Name)
With Or Without You
Moment Of Surrender

Shambles

Went out for dinner tonight and left the husband to his own devices.
He assured me he'd find his own dinner so I didn't have to cook for him.

And find he did.....