What a week - VIVID, theatre and Little Treasures

We finished the last post at Vivid.  And that is where we are going to start this post.  Yep, I'm going to skip over Alex's visit to his dentist and having our forklift serviced at the office.  Alex had a few days where his pain became worse, and since Donna (our Community Nurse) was away for the week, Michelle made a couple of visits and in consultation with Dr. Corey Lau, his medications were again tweaked.

This year's VIVID really deserved another night out, and this time we went over towards North Sydney to watch the light display across the harbour bridge; firstly from street vantage point and then from Lavender Bay.

From the narrow footpath we had a great view of the bridge as well as Luna Park. 

Down at Lavender Bay, the reflections on the water were spectacular. 

This is our Rainbow Bridge

and here are a few more of the changing colours - you can also see the Opera House in the distance

We enjoyed the evening and were surprised at the number of people out and about on this side of the harbour.  We ended up at Harry's Cafe de Wheels at Woolloomoolloo for "pie, peas and mash - with Gravy" for dinner.  The rain held off until we were on our way back home after a great night out.

On Friday night we were out again - there's no stopping us!  We met up with Simon and Dolores for dinner in Chinatown and then walked around to the Sydney Entertainment Centre to see "Jesus Christ Superstar".  The musical was written around 1969 and has been on stage worldwide since 1971 and yet this was the first time either of us had seen it.  It was spectacular and it was interesting to see the way it included aspects of today's life such as ipads.

On Saturday morning, Alex's sister Barbara and her husband Phil flew up from Adelaide to spend the weekend with us.  We naturally headed to our favourite local cafe, Little Treasures, for brunch.  This was Phil's first time at Little Treasures.  Saturday's brunch was so enjoyable that we headed back on Sunday morning for brunch again.

Don't panic.  Barbara did NOT have two servings of breakfast.  Above was on Saturday, and on Sunday morning she took the "waffle challenge".

Craig is the co-owner of Little Treasures and he is a real gem.  He couldn't resist posing for the photo below.

Barbara and Phil flew back to Adelaide last night.  It's a long weekend here and today is a Public Holiday - for the Queen's birthday (which is really in April ...)  We had a quiet day at home as the rest of this week is busy.


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