Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 340: No picnic, lots of shopping

We cancelled the picnic based on cataclysmic storm predictions for today which as it turned out to be not much of anything. Instead of torrential rain and hail we got, well, blue skies and soft breezes, perfect picnic weather. Colour me very unimpressed but good side of it all was Steve was exhausted, we got a day of Christmas shopping in at broadway, and a chilled night with Aidan and Greg to mark our annual housesmates Christmas dinner and present exchange which was wonderful.

And there's always next year ... the picnic shall rise again ...

Zara got a Christmas tree!

Holding the Reins of the Runaway Extrovert 2013: Day 356 - Shop away, shop away all

Off to Chadstone mall for 5-6 hours of intense Christmas shopping that took us along the endless shop-filled corridors and yielded all the presents we still needed to get bar two with a yummy yum cha and tea lunch at the Oriental Tea House ... an exhausting but wonderful day - Steve and I make a great shopping team ...

Then off to Carnegie to Spotlight to get Stella's gifts ...

Took these shots and texted to Waz

After all the shopping headed to Steve's mum and dad to make the famous Christmas faces, which included some rather hipster and Salvador dali-esque ones ...

Then dinner .... garlic prawns and chicken and salad ...