Friday, September 24, 2010

YEAHS and BOOS and the magic of a parent's room

YEAH: Bondi Beach, you are breathtaking, truly, truly magnificent BOO: Why all your restaurant close Monday, I hungry Monday just like Tuesday!
YEAH: Botanic Garden BOO: Carson riding the Mommy horsey, grabbing the horsey's mane and not letting go until daddy pulled him and a large fistfull of hair off of very hurt horsey
YEAH: CBD, you are clean, bustling modern and exciting BOO: $45 parking
YEAH: Train BOO: big gap to mind
SO SO for Manly, not as nice as I wanted it to be BOO: Nate Modri was right again!
YEAH: Taronga Zoo REALLY BIG YEAH parents room at TZ   BOO: buying a $200+ membership then discovering Mike gets hundreds of free passes. Note all Christmas gifts will be from the TZ because I am trying to make the membership pay by utilizing my Zoo Friend discount.
YEAH: speedos on Bondi lifeguards BOO: Speedos on the gentlemen who appear to be the original founders on Bondi, I'll spare you the photos!


 I digress into the wonders of Parent's rooms found in malls, in the city, at the zoo and just about anywhere. If you have ever pumped in a stall, BF in corner while manipulating a hooter hider that refused to do its advertised job, changed your baby on your lap, stroller, seat or horror the floor or had the modesty damning experience of peeing with the door open so you could see your kids in their stroller that would not fit in the stall, these parents rooms will blow your mind. It is a large room with an automatic LARGE door (the urban assault BOB fit through like a Phil and Ted) inside a palace awaits...there are private small rooms for BF equipped with a chair and a LARGE wall toy for older kids to stay occupied, toddler/regular toilets that have a large door and plenty of privacy, changing areas some with lines that roll out from the wall, bottle warmers, microwaves. IT IS HEAVEN! Amazing heaven on earth. 

How does a society that loves babes and mums so much find it impossible to order a few high chairs when outfitting their restaurant? Oh I'm sorry my child just took a "chip" (fry) out of your basket as he saundered about the restaurant, I am used to not having to parent in restaurants, I usually just strap him in and start downing the cosmos! FAST I've only got 23 minutes until they combust and I have to dart out of here like the dine and dash episode of Silver Spoons! 




YEAH: 4 wheel drive grocery carts, seriously you can drive your cart (trolley) to the side if you feel wild! BOO: trying to drive them straight down the aisle BOO: no twinsy carts!
YEAH: Multiple sushi stands at every mall, food court, corner many named Sushi World BOO: finding out all Sushi Worlds are not created equally. This is like the Denver equivalent of OPI nail, many many OPI Nail, only one with Bea.
YEAH: AWESOME Thai and Indian Food BOO: Finding out how fattening ANYTHING with the name curry really is
YEAH: lots of retail therapy BOO: instantly going up a size seriously! And this has nothing to do with the above
YEAH: cute old aussie with lipstick on her teeth that came right up to my face and shouted about the boys "Now they look different as Jack and Jeeves don't they now?" BOO: no idea who Jack and Jeeves are so all I could do was smile
YEAH: all of our long pants and shirts arrived BOO: just in time for the heat wave :)




BOO for slow internet connection thus limiting the number of pics I can feasibly upload! These for pics took 38 minutes fo real!

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