I’ve done so much work this month! I’ve planned out all of my posts this year in advance so I can actually be ahead of schedule and make more awesome things!

I may have bought these candles just to get the cute little trinkets inside them >_>

I wanted one of these cute little trees but they were sold out before I could get one!

I managed to drop a tripod on my foot >_<

Bonus photo which will scar you for life: One of James’ photography clients is a school where people learn about aged care nursing. They have the scariest mannequins EVER!!

It’s right at the top of the building and there are panoramic views of Melbourne like this everywhere you look.

It was the fanciest place I’ve ever been and honestly I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to do something luxurious like this again so I was determined to enjoy every single moment of it.

We were served several “snacks” before the degustation courses began… the snacks were almost a meal in themselves!

I’m not a food blogger and honestly I couldn’t tell you what was in most of the courses (even though it was explained in great detail to us all as we ate) but… look how pretty it all was!

The table was covered in rocks, sticks and naturish things. The interesting thing was that as the meal progressed every single one was used. Some of the rocks held knives, the sticks were used for cutlery holders and other things were used for serving, it was very cute!

There were so many edible flowers. I love edible flowers. I’m pretty sure it’s an osmosis thing, the more cute things you eat, the cuter you get 😛

I loved the cutlery, I want this in my house so much.

This was totally cool, they made onion soup in a special coffee maker which sucked the liquid up to the top section. It was delicious!

I really enjoyed tasting so many new flavours!

The lovely birthday girl!

One of my favourite dishes, it was made up of leaves and flowers which the servers poured liquid nitrogen over and we got to crush in a mortar and pestle then we added it to icecream. So much of a flavour punch!

SO MUCH FOOD! By the end I was so full, we were there for over 4 hours of constant eating *_*

But there was still more food… desserts!

It was probably good that we got to walk some of it off on the way home.

Random tangent: I walked past this place and had to take a photo of the gigantic giraffe! I want to go back in daylight and see it properly now!

Anyway on the way out of Vue De Monde we were given a breakfast bag for the following day. It had locally produced honey, fresh bread, biscuits and muesli.

Bee!

It was a really delicious breakfast and a lovely thought. The bread was really sweet and delicious.

Epic experience over!! Now I just need to make this  happen on a weekly basis XD

She’s getting so fluffy. Her butt is riduclously furry 😀

She’s grown out of a lot of her puppy phase and now she’s much lazier.

She likes to lay in the sun even on hot days. She’s not great at self preservation.

“Ugh it’s so sunny, I guess I could lay in the other 99% of the house… nah.”

While she’s lazy, she does love jumping. We set her up hurdles to jump in the hallway and she thinks it’s the best thing ever.

She loved sniffing our garden but she got very concerned about the bugs that decided to live in them too.

And she still tries to steal my seat every single time I get up.

“What GirlHuman? I’m writing your posts for you…. treats?”

She was intesely into this empty peanut butter jar 😀

Bonus pic: She also enjoyed wearing the lid of the peanut butter as a hat. Or maybe that was just me. Either way >_>

While we did get to the beach, the weather was a bit…

But it didn’t stop us from having some fun!

This smile actually says “Yay I’m getting sand blown in my face by this intense wind!”.

It’s a little hard to see in the photo but there were little seagull footprints all around these lost feathers.

James made friends with a bouncy ball he found. Then he lost it in the ocean… then he rescued it from the ocean… then he lost it in the ocean again >_> It was an emotional day for him.

Afterwards we went to La Porchetta for lunch and it was actually really yummy. It looked like a repurposed RSL but it was so good!

Bonus pic:

I did wonder a bit as to the cause of these instructions for our left overs. I mean seriously, did someone actually get sick and sue over something like this? INSANITY.