February 2014

Our last tennis lessons as a couple are this month.  We've had a great time and hopefully we will continue to play often.  We will be on the look out for another couple for doubles.

February 8th we drove to Tamborine mountain to check out a hotel we are thinking of staying in when some friends come to visit in May.  We had a nice lunch on a patio overlooking the mountains.  It started drizzling at the end of the day after we took a short hike.

On the 15th we went to a farewell party for Marina and Bob.  They will be moving back to England when Bob retires at the end of the month.  It's going to be terribly sad to see them go. They have become one of our favorite couples to hang out with at night and Marina is in my craft group every Tuesday.

Now comes the crazy that I seem to fall into every once in a while.....although I don't think it sounds crazy at the time!  Lol. Here goes....there is an Etsy site that sells striped sock yarn.  I have never seen it in person but hear it's great.  The dyer puts it up for sale once a month and all her stock sells out in literally 45 seconds.  You know how I know this?  I have sat in a chair refreshing my computer screen, put one skein in a cart to buy and gone to buy it and it's been sold to someone else.  I've had Dave leaving for work late so that we can BOTH be sitting in front of computers to buy this yarn that sells out faster than you can click the buy button.  I'm a seasoned shopper, but this is beyond crazy!!  I even wanted Dave to ask the Cerner IT team to help me out!!  Well, persistence pays off. I did score some finally and Dave no longer has to listen to me wail in frustration..

February 27th- Di's friend from England came to town.  Jane is quite the character and loads of fun.  Since Di needed to work, I volunteered to take Jane to an art exhibit called Falling Back To Earth by Cai Guo-Qiang in Southbank.   It was really cool to see, although modern art is not something I really like.  Afterwards we sat outside on the patio of a restaurant and had a bottle of wine and some nibbles and watched the Wheel of Brisbane go round and round....