Last weekend…

Had the little one’s birthday party last weekend, which went pretty well. On the Saturday, she had a party with her friends from school at “The Enchanted Room” which is a shop that sells dragons and fairies and similar stuff, but also has a children’s party room. It looked like the kids all enjoyed themselves, which is good.

That evening, I picked Tessa up from the airport, and we had the talk we needed to have..played Wrath, then headed to bed.

On the Sunday we went into Civic so Tessa could buy a book, and so we could go to Impact (which is a necesity for anyone visiting Canberra – especially those who have lived here). I came away with Within Temptation’s Mother Earth DVDs and two Kate Bush albums. After that we went round to the little one’s grandparents’ place for a family party / afternoon tea thingy, where I gave her the bike I had bought her. The bike seemed to go down pretty well, as did the books Tessa bought, and the afternoon was pretty good in general.
We went to see Once Upon A Time In Mexico that evening – which was good. Kind of strange, but very good.

The next day (Canberra Day), Tessa went to visit a friend, so I took the oportunity to check out my new DVD. It was fairly worthwhile – it was pretty much just a concert DVD, so there’s not really much to say about it, though the second disk was full of interviews and stuff, which would have been great, if it weren’t for the fact that it was all in Dutch, with no subtitles. I watched a few of them anyway, all I picked up was that Robert likes Wagner, and I think a few of them like LotR.
There was also a “Making of the CD and Cover” segment which turned out to be dedicated to a little black and white kitten that featured quite a lot in it, and aparently died at the age of 2. Watching it a second time with Tessa was actually too much for me and made me completely fall apart.
I’m not sure why, I think it was just a combination of my current emotional state, and that I found it so touching that somone had loved that cat enough to turn a fairly normal collection of random “behind the scenes” video footage into a permanent and beautiful tribute, and sad at the thought at the same time.
I don’t know…maybe I just have a previously unknown soft spot for cute little kittens. It still kind of affects me thinking about it now.

Anyway, after “The Kitten Incident” we spent most of the rest of the evening talking about pets…looking up dog breeds for Tessa, and cat breeds for me – since Tessa starting trying to convince me that I want a cat.
Whether or not I do, I don’t know yet…but I guess I’m considering it. Though knowing me, I’ll still be considering it in 10 years time ;)

The next morning I took Tessa back to the airport to see her off, and all I want to know is, how come Virgin Blue have a much nicer departure lounge than Qantas?