Andrew and I spent Saturday in the city. It was Andrew’s birthday on Friday and mine on Sunday, so we sort of split the difference and decided to celebrate by having yum cha on Saturday with Gabe, Julie, the kids and Iris.
We picked Iris up from Redfern station around 9 am and then drove to a car park in the city. We walked down to the Pyrmont Growers Market and spent an hour or so wandering around. Andrew and Iris both had Wagyu beef steak sandwiches for breakfast while I had a Thai chicken curry pie. I bought some goats cheese that I simply love, tasted some blood oranges that were delicious so I bought some of those too, then Andrew went off for a coffee and Iris and I both bought some orange juice. We went past a stall that sold ‘icecream sandwiches’ and was told that if I chose a flavour and came back in about 10 minutes I could taste it (it had to warm up a bit to make it easy to cut). I chose caramel pecan, which was caramel icecream between two pecan biscuits. Very delicious, I must say! We bought a loaf of bread and the newspaper, and took everything back to the car.
We planned to have yum cha for lunch, but we were waiting for Gabe and Julie to meet us with the kids. Julie rang to say that Angela was still sleeping and they’d be later than planned. Iris said it would be nice to just sit in the sun for an hour with a Starbucks coffee, so we arranged a place to meet and said we’d call her in about an hour to let her know what was happening. Then Andrew and I headed to the city to wander around and do a little window shopping.
Just over an hour later Julie rang to say they were on their way, so we called Iris and organised to meet her near the Chinese restaurant. The timing was pretty good, by the time we got a table Gabe and Julie were only about 5 minutes or so from the restaurant. It ended up being a pretty late lunch, so there wasn’t as much choice of food as normal, but we also were able to sit around the table for ages after we finished eating because lunch was over and they weren’t seating people for dinner yet.
When we finally left the restaurant, Andrew and I walked to Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair to see the USS Kittyhawk that was in Sydney for 5 days. From there we walked through the botanical gardens and back to the carpark.
It was a lovely day.
