One day free

Today we woke up nice and early, full of organisation. We're heading off to Canada for a short skiing holiday and the adrenalin is already flowing. We are just organising the last minute details of the packing when I noticed that there is a missed call on my mobile phone. It’s the airline to say that our flight has been cancelled. We are both so disappointed. All of a sudden we’re not going anywhere for another 24 hours. Should we go into work – No way!

I am, by nature, an extremely organised person, so to be given a gift of a free day with absolutely nothing organised is a rare pleasure. After many, many phone calls this morning reorganising our plans, J and I headed, with the dog, to the local park for some sunshine, a sambo and a chance to register that we weren’t going on holidays for another day. We came back and the hassle of the morning had worn us out so we both ended up napping in the afternoon sunlight on the couch in the lounge. No greater pleasure than napping in the afternoon.

Today is the 29th Feb and so it is already an extra day in the year but today was our very own extra little day. Two wonderful things happened today. One was that when J and I were out walking the dog he showed me a park right beside our house that he has known about for months. We did talk about this park when he discovered it but I think I was distracted and so didn’t comprehend how convenient it actually is. Since I am the person who walks Teddy every morning it is so wonderful to find a park so close to our house where you can let the dog off lease. I am very happy about this find.

But much more important then finding a new park was having a meal with my favourite chef. Art has been staying with us recently on and off while they spend some time in Sydney. They were going to mind lil Teddy for us while we are off skiing but since we didn’t leave Sydney today we were able to gatecrash his dinner with a friend tonight. While clearing out the freezer before going on holidays I came across a frozen bag of some unidentifiable black food. I phoned Art and asked had he left anything in the freezer and he informed me that they had brought some Abalone back from Tasmania. Tonight was the night to enjoy the abalone with their good friend. All of a sudden two more guests would be joining. Being the excellent chef that Art is, he just added a few more veggies and a little more wine to the sauce and hey presto the meal would stretch to 5 people. There is nothing I enjoy more then having dinner cooked by Art and so today really was a treat for us.

Of course a certain little dog has come to learn that when the suitcases come out it means he will be left behind and so he has been in a little bit of a sulk today but it is very cute to watch my little puppy trying to sulk while still wanting to be involved in everything.