Happy weekend

After a bout of gastro knocked me about later in the week sending me home to my sick bed on Thursday afternoon, I recovered enough on Friday for Rob, Scarlett and I to make it to Godfather Kendall's for dinner and a sleepover. As always Kendall produced an incredible dinner in his beautiful Elizabeth Bay apartment, where we enjoyed his fire, food, wine and company. Slightly worse for wear on Saturday we walked, slowly, down to Rushcutters Bay park on the water for coffee at the kiosk, that conveniently also has a ton of kid's toys out on the grass. In the afternoon we headed to the Royal Prince Alfred hospital, where Scarlett was born, to visit our great friends Melissa and Larry, who had their first baby, a girl called Lotus May, on Friday morning. Melissa featured earlier in this blog around the half way mark on her pregnancy. Lotus is beautiful and I have never seen Melissa look happier or more relaxed. We can't wait to watch our girls play, smoke, get drunk, bunk off school and lie about their exam results together in the years to come. On Saturday we got ready to head out to the Sydney Opera House to see Kiri te Kanawa, our wedding anniversary present to ourselves. Just as the babysitter walked in the door, Scarlett started vomiting in her cot - the dreaded gastro bug had struck again. While we certainly had reservations about still going out, Rob reminded me of the price of the tickets and we were out the door leaving Scarlett happy in a changed bed and bed clothes. It was a spectacular night as nights at the Opera House tend to be. Kiri was exceptional as always, accompanied by a single pianist. The opera house setting is remarkable and during the interval we grabbed our champagne flutes and headed out onto the terrace to look at the harbour and the illuminated bridge and city skyline. On nights like this there really is no other city in the world I'd rather be. We were home to find our little Miss all scrunched up in bed with no further sickness to report. On Sunday we had Julia, Richard and their daughter Ella over for dinner while they were in Sydney for a few days. They are wonderful friends who we have really been missing since they moved to Tokyo in March. Fortunately their stay there is only for a year and we will be visiting them in Japan in December for some sushi and skiing.