Anne's Birthday

No rest for the wicked, as we were up before dawn to make sure we could get a day in to go to Sydney to take Anne for lunch for her upcoming birthday.
Crazy stuff, allowing an alarm to awake you at 6.45am on a Sunday morning, but we needed to keep moving if we were to meet the timeframe of the day.

We arrived at Darling Harbour at 10.30am, and as usual decided to catch the Monorail around to Pitt Street. It wasn't until after we bought our ticket that we discovered what most people seemed to already know - that they are going to tear down the monorail in a couple of months. Ludicrous!! How is one supposed to find their way from an easily found parking station at the Entertainment Centre to the dead centre of Sydney without the Monorail?! Walk? With three kids? Very disappointing, and kids were almost devastated. As such, we had to take a couple of photos with them and the monorail for posterities sake.

We met Anne at the Sky Phoenix chinese restaurant, which was a yum cha restaurant, something that both Anne and Helen looooooooooooooove and that I put up with but would much rather be somewhere else. Winning dishes for me included the BBQ pork, shredded beef (a bit like crunchy witchety grubs, but still ok) the fried noodles and peppered honey pork. Good stuff. Best part of the lunch was that Josh actually ate quite a lot, fried rice and fried noodles and a spring roll and jelly for dessert. Cost as much as about five Macca's runs, but you get that I guess.

So, it was an interesting day. Started at 7.00am, and we got home at 3.30pm, all for an hour's lunch date, all of which with parking, monorail, fuel and lunch cost about $275.00. "Yikes" is what the financial manager of the family said once he had worked it all out.