The Day I met Kevin Rudd

Hey u,

I woke up today, wondering...'What DAY is it?'

I have the luxury of having long weekends and when Saturday really comes, I'll go 'It's only Saturday..'
My days usually starts with Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday,Saturday,Sunday,Sunday. Now you understand what I mean by a LONG weekend.
Don't be too jealous ya?

So today I thought I will start with throwing stuff into the DHL box which looks rather big and vacuumed the whole house, I thought if I could do it today, I won't need to do it on Thursday....

which means......

I will have time for some last last minute shopping before I head home on Friday ;)

Anyhow, the house looks so clean and finally I could really breathe better, for awhile I thought I was gonna be asthmatic! Never remembered we have it in our family history.
Well, at least I know now, it's just the dust and oh all the pollinating seed flying in the air these day, it looks like snow on a wintry day.
Nice, but it's irritating getting all those woolly seeds stuck in your hair, eyebrow and nose!

So house is FINALLY clean, actually rather clean except for all the notes all over the floor and table. Soon... 

I got ready, transferred some moulah $$$, into the correct debit account, coz I am off to the DFO (factory outlet) after lunching with hubby's friend(let's call him H) and his lovely Jap wife.

I waited.....washed my clothes....waited...than was thinking 'Was it supposed to be a Sat or Sunday that we are going out?' - see, this long weekend is really confusing me....

He came finally.
Clad in a black top, jeans, proper shoes, red scarf and my ORANGE bag, off we went.

First stop, Manuka.
I love the place, it's so near to where I live, rather the Beverly Hills (ok I was exaggerating a bit, ok ok a whole lot) of Canberra.
It's really for the rich & richer lot of people, you really see the few branded shops and the clothes here you can't get in the city.

Families having a day out eating, all the cafes are full, people basking in the SUN.
I was telling myself, I must come here again, alone and shop....they really seem to have nice stuff and the SALE sign everywhere!

We had simple lunch, conversation, which range from politics, marriages, gay-ism, climate change, wow really heavy stuff, ya?

We drove off to Red Hill, I tell you Australia, has all those colourfull mountains, BLUE mountain in Sydney, BLACK mountain in Canberra, now RED hill. Gosh.
I understand the Blue and Black lived to it;s name, but Red hill....nothing red I saw, but you really get to see the whole of this city.


Some view from the hill, from my iphone:

It was a very cloudy day, the Southern skies are usually really beautiful

On our way down, then H was saying, 'Hey, that's Kevin Rudd..!!'
His wife was SUPER excited. Like a kind gentleman, he turned the car around
passed Kevin Rudd again,
brought down the window and

'Hey Kevin, can we take a a picture with you?'

He said yes, the next things we were clicking away. Wow! she was super excited, Kevin said something in Jap, we shook hands and let him continue his exercise up Red hill. That was great, the ex PM of Australia, very friendly and obliging indeed. No, he didn't have any security personnel with him, just one of the cabinet minister, which we all didn't recognised anyways.

Kevin (ex PM, now Minister of Foreign Affairs & Us (we are all shy people)

We went off to DFO, I was excited, my the mission of getting a beige/brown blazer. We split ways, I have 45 minutes to scan through the place and hopefully get something decent. Shoes and blazer, I'll be happy if I got those.

45 minutes later (I swear it felt like 10 minutes).......


I ended up with


ONLY


this!

A Dora Lunch Box for my baby

I was disappointed, but I know I will make her SUPER happy, and really that's what matters most! =)
The SMILE on her face is PRICELESS.


But...


I think I will end my torture tomorrow.

I am set.


I will.


Get

the

Shoes

tomorrow!!!!

The smile on my face....is priceless will cost me A$109.90.

See u later.