Back to Reality

What an exhausting last couple of days! Brisbane was fantastic and have since been catching up on all the washing and grocery shopping as you usually do when you get back from being away. After my antenatal appointment yesterday and all the shopping as well as a few other bits and pieces my feet were starting to swell... they still haven't got over all the walking I did down in Brissy. The news from my appointment is that everything is good with bubs - all my blood tests are good, so was my glucose test (even though I almost passed out as she was taking the blood!), I even got a nice jab in my arm!

I didn't take as many photos as I had planned while we were away... I didn't want to lug my camera everywhere but here are a couple. I mentioned the pancake place after my last trip away and we were back there again this time. You can tell that it was an old church in this photo - the inside is just gorgeous!

Noel trying to steal my pancakes....

Just in case you weren't already hungry, get a load of these blueberry pancakes.... YUM!

The hotel where we stayed is built on the former site of Festival Hall - I love how they have this memorial to it in the front lobby. They even have old tickets from concerts and floorboards with the seating numbers on! I remember going to see Alanis Morissette there about 12 years ago - I got the worst flu in my life after that concert! The whole of SE Queensland was flooding at the time and it took about 6 hours to get to Brisbane instead of the normal one and a half. It was pouring rain and after coming from the boiling heat inside and standing in the cold rain outside I got so sick! Was a good concert though....

At the moment, just seeing this is making me happy....

Since coming back from Brissy I have started organising all the baby stuff that we had all over the house and putting it somewhere a bit more permanent. It's starting to make it a bit more real now and I am realising that it's not too much longer now until an actual baby will be here (as opposed to a big lump in my stomach... LOL). The baby expo was great - I have never seen so many prams all in the one place before! I managed to buy myself some nappies - some Itti Bitti's and BumGenius - I just can't wait till the baby gets here and I can actually use them. Until then I will have to be content just to play with them and muck around with the inserts. I also got some great book bargains from QBD - it is by far my favourite book shop as you can always find something cheap, only problem is we don't have one here in Rocky! But anyway, I managed to get over $70 worth of kids books for only $22! They are so cute - some have different textures and furry bits through the books so they will be fun for a little one to play with. This kid is going to have so many books it isn't funny!

That's about it for now - must go and finish reading a book!