Memoirs with a glass of champagne: Sweet spring, full of sweet days

Spring day came in it's resplendent way, and cheered us all up. The trees were in full bloom, the advent of all the cold days being behind us (well, unless some very sneaky cold front decides to surprise us). We have been rather busy in the last couple of days, Thursday we met up with Cally, Ross & CJ for dinner at the Spur. Jordy was going to spend the night with them as Cally was taking CJ, Jordy & a friend to Gold Reef City the next day. I met up with Cally on Friday afternoon, in a very dodgy place (story for another time) to collect Jordy, who after having an amazing day was absolutely exhausted and was moaning how she was getting old and couldn't do what she used to be able to do, for goodness sake, she is 15 years old and she thinks she is old, what does that make me ? Historic. On the way home, the traffic was backed up horrifically so we pulled in to Cedar Square and went to Central Grill. They offer half price sushi & cocktails between 5:00 & 6:00 pm, we took them up on this offer and waited out the traffic (much better idea). Anyway Saturday we set off to Chamdor to get material for a dress I wanted to make for Jordy, she chose what she wanted and we made our way to Melrose Arch to do some serious retail therapy. suffice to say 7 hours later we had in hand only one pair of shoes for Jordy, what do they say about the best laid plans. We may not have managed to get very much shopping done, but we had a ball, flitting in and out of all the shops "gathering" as "Defending the Caveman" would say. We had lunch at an Italian restaurant, it was so lovely to sit outside in the sunshine, enjoying a glass of wine with my lunch. We got home to find Grant engrossed in the Wallabies vs South Africa rugby match, it turned out to be a real nail biting match, unfortunately South Africa lost right in the very last minute or two. He thought it was hysterical that we had been shopping all day and hadn't managed to find anything, he said he was expecting to have to help us in with all our parcels. I spent Saturday night running up the new "scarf Dress" for Jordy with the material we had just bought. she was really happy with it and wore it on Sunday. Jordy & I set off on Sunday and hit Fourways Mall, we had a very successful day, Jordy got another pair of shoes, a pair of converse plimsols for school and a belt and I found two pairs of shoes, a really cute evening bag and some PJ's. so parcels in hand we made our way home. We convinced Grant that the only thing to do when you have new shoes is take them out for dinner. We planned to go to Kong roast, but when we got there, they were closed. The restaurant next door is called "Chef and the Fat Man", we decided to give it a try. It was really good, the service was friendly and efficient and the food was cooked very well. So all in all we had a lovely evening and the shoes enjoyed it too.
Monday after work, Glen, Laura & Debbie came round to show us the pictures from the photo shoot, the photo's came out great, Jordy is so thrilled with her photo shoot pics and can't wait to take them to show her friends. Our family pics came out great. Glen really is brilliant at making people look amazing in his pictures. We are now looking forward to more relaxing evenings for the rest of the week as we have a really hectic weekend coming up
Till next time
xoxo