A delightful 4 day weekend

Today (Tuesday) is Cup Day, so I took Monday off to make it a four day weekend. This coincided with us being 80 percent vaxxed, which lifted the requirement to wear masks outside and meant we were allowed to leave metropolitan Melbourne. Also retail finally re-opened. Delightful.

On Friday night we had dinner with my parents and brother's family. It was magical being all back together (and I took no photos!)

On Saturday we ran for two hours and then went to the pub with Leon's brother Kieran. People brought us beer and then took the glasses away! I keep using the word delightful, because it's true.

On Sunday we met up with our trivia team, Double Digit Mayhem. We have been in existence with various members for over 12 years, and during lockdowns we have met weekly on Tuesday nights for Zoom Trivia. Not as good as being in person, but better than nothing. So it was delightful to go to the park, play a round of Disc Golf and have a picnic. 3d faces! Delightful

Monday we went to Ballarat to see Leon's parents. On the way back we stopped at Spotlight and I bought some more embroidery threads. I never thought going into a fairly average, chain, craft shop would be so exciting! This is "all" I bought.

There was a huge display of DMC cotton, twice as wide as this photo, so I think I was very restrained. Also, it's hard to make choices that have zero consequences. What do you base your decision on?

Today we went for a gentle run and then got breakfast. Someone made us coffeee and ffod and brought it to us. Delightful.

And then today Elise dropped by, just because we are allowed in each others houses again!

I have also spent some time plying, and am nearly finished the whole Waiting for Rain spinning project - but more about that when it is all done. Juniper was very interested i what I was doing. So an all round delightful, social, open 4 day weekend.

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