Day 75 & 76

Another weekend is slowly packing up to make way for the challenges of the week ahead. I love my Sunday evening's - a time to enjoy a final evening of rest and relaxation and to take a few moments with a lovely pot of tea and my Cara's 9 to plan my week and make sure that I take a balanced approach to life. Our friend Peta is off to Mongolia in a week to live in a yurt and complete a two year assignment with the Red Cross so on Saturday evening we all gathered to celebrate this exciting new opportunity and her upcoming birthday. It was lovely to see our Chinese friends Grace & Bob; and meet their daughter Emily (fifteen months) so a dinner date at Hong Kong Cuisine (I do love their yum cha!) is already in the pipeline for April. Sunday we had a big country drive to the Sunshine Coast, we're doing a little renovating at the moment and had to pick up a door which was also not too far from a raw foodie cafe I discovered online about a week ago. Our itinery took us to Maleny today (a motorbike swap meet was on) so we dropped in to visit the Maple Street Food Co-Op. We have some a group looking at starting a local co-op here so it was good to touch base with a good model for the project. After a scenic drive to Mapleton we headed down the mountain for a lovely lunch of buritos and a medditeranean platter at It's Rawesome Cafe before picking up the door and heading home to a few chapters of Just off Fifth.