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I Like Food and I Also Like Food

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You know what I like? Pizza.

You know what else I like? Beer.

You know what else I like? Chocolate.

You know what else I like? Cake.

You know what else I like? I think you get the picture. I like food.

If you saw my diet over the past couple of days, you’d swear I was living in an episode of Epic Meal Time. Needless to say, we have had a really, really, really good weekend. As you can probably see.

It started off relatively innocently. We had a few people over on Friday night for a few board games and dinner. Well, dinner was delicious. As was the chips, corn chips, salsa, steamed pudding and ice cream that followed.

Ok, that’s enough I thought. I have gym tomorrow morning, so let’s try and get that diet back on track after gym.

Well that failed, because Saturday night we decided to head to Eat Street Markets for date night. Jesse came with us, so technically it was date night for three.

For those who are unaware of Eat Street Markets, it’s basically food and drink stalls galore. Everything delicious. It’s the kind of place where you go from stall to stall trying all sorts of different things. And that we did.

We started with the obligatory BBQ pork buns, followed by a soft NYC style pretzel covered with mozerella cheese, pepperoni and pizza sauce. Then it was Langos, a Hungarian deep fried delicious looking flat bread covered with cheese, sour cream and sweet chilli sauce. A couple of beers definitely helped wash the food down.

FOOD

For dessert, well why not a Mars filled churros. And then just for good measure, I got a chocolate and tim tam covered cronut (half donut, half croissant) with a syringe full of Nutella to inject right into the middle of all that deliciousness.

Come 8pm that night, I felt pretty sick. I was started to think I might need to go on a sugar cleanse.

Then today happened. It was off to to catch up with some family for wood fired pizzas. Not too bad I thought. But then out came two cakes, cream and marshmallows. Well, I have to have cake and cream!

And even as I got home this afternoon I stumbled across an opened packet of chips that I had to finish off, but not before having a fist full of beef jerky.

Now I know what you’re thinking… That is a lot of food. And you’d be right. It is. But I will say this… I don’t regret a single thing!!!

I’ll start eating healthy on Monday!

Mission: Leave the House for the Day

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DATE: Friday, 19 June 2015

TIME: 10:30am

THE MISSION: Leave the house (successfully) for the whole day with Jesse.

MISSION OUTCOME: SUCCESS!!!!

That was literally how it felt on Friday. It felt like we were planning a highly important military operation that needed to be carried out with precision and accuracy (yes I know those mean the same thing). Like it was almost going to be the difference between life and death if we got the planning, execution or any tiny detail of ‘Operation Escape the House for the Day’ wrong.

But… We survived.

What did we do? Well, we escaped to where every other expectant or new mothers, fathers and grandparents were going to be. At the Brisbane Pregnancy, Babies and Children’s Expo.

We packed the nappy bag, bundled Jesse into his carrier and loaded the car in preparation for the day trip to baby central (the Expo). As we drove out of the garage and down the driveway, I turned to Renee and said “Are you sure we have everything?”

“YES! It’ll be fine.” She responded.

Ok great, so I should just ignore this feeling of dread that’s washing over me in waves right now?

We pull into the carpark of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and find a car space relatively easily. We grab Jesse and his carrier, load the pram up and start toward the Expo.

As we poke our heads through the doors, all I can see is prams, babies and pregnant women everywhere. There is no order, there is no structure, there’s just prams and kids and people going in every direction. Its absolute chaos, like sperm swimming around trying to find their way to the ultimate prize, which is ironic considering that’s how everyone in the hall got into this mess in the first place.

First port of call, food for us. The café is down the back of the hall. Ok let’s do this.

WATCH OUT FOR THAT PRAM!

Stop, rogue child.

Quick, let’s make a break, there’s no one in front.

No wait, another pram, hard right… HARD RIGHT!

Ok, let’s try left.

Nope, left is no good. I repeat, left is no good.

We need to make a U turn. Checking left, checking right, GO.

Ok, we made it!

Expo Shot

After refuelling, we were ready play dodgem cars with the other prams and headed out to look at the stalls. Who knew babies needed so much stuff! Or do they?

There were the typical stalls you would expect to see at a pregnancy and baby expo like newborn photographers, prams and prams and more prams and popular brands like Curash, S-26 and Phillips Avent. There was also this great stall full of Rugby League onesies including a Brisbane Broncos and Queensland Marrons onesies. We managed to resist the temptation.

However, what really caught our attention was all the weird gadgets, contraptions and furniture on offer. Like the stall offering a devise for parents to suck snot out of their babies noses. Or the stall that had the ‘Baby Shoosher’, which was essentially a plastic speaker that repeatedly played a ‘ssssshhhhhh’ sound over and over again. How much is it? REALLY?

Then there were the stalls with furniture for babies that looked like it had come straight of the set of ‘The Jetsons’. I don’t think interior decorating has quite embraced the space age look just yet.

Before anyone gets upset and claims that the Baby Shoosher is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I have written this in jest. By all accounts the stall offering the Baby Shoosher did claim it had an 80% success rate, although I’m sure parents making the ‘ssssshhhhh’ sounds themselves would have a similar effect.

At the end of the day, we did manage to escape the Expo unscathed without spending too much money. The only purchase we made on the day was a nappy (diaper) disposal bin for Jesse’s nursery. Some of you might claim that this is also not really needed, and you’re probably right. But we like it for the convenience factor.

It actually was a pretty great day and the perfect way to spend our first full day out of the house. Mixing with other parents and expectant mothers.

I have a feeling that I will probably be less stressed the next time we prepare for a full day out of the house.

Birthdays and Memories

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Today is Kaine’s 31st birthday (and mine was earlier in the month) and despite having a lovely day it is very different to how we spent this day last year.

One year ago today we woke up in Switzerland, had lunch in Italy and ended the day in France.  It is hard to believe it has been a year since our Euro trip so, as a bit of fun, here is a flashback to the vlog for how we spent Kaine’s birthday last year.

We had such an amazing adventure.  We started with a 9 day Top Deck tour followed by a glorious week on the Amalfi Coast before exploring Florence, Venice, Prague and Paris.  We had an absolutely incredible time creating unforgettable memories with great friends as we ate, drank and saw the sights for five wonderful weeks.

You can check out all of our Euro trip vlogs in the Euro Trip 2014 playlist on YouTube.