Day 264: Pupil Free Day means lots of park play
Today was a Kindergarten (and it seemed most of the schools in Brisbane) Pupil Free Day.
Grace, the head honcho of Thermomix in Australia, was supposed to be in town for a meet and greet, and a picnic in New Farm Park had been organised, but at the last minute she wasn't able to make it due to needing to be in Perth for a meeting. The plan changed and we had a Branch-level picnic meeting at the Colmslie Beach Reserve.
So after Sarah dropped Zoe off, I whipped up some red velvet cheesecake brownie, which seems to be my go to baked good when required to bring a plate (it's certainly popular) and I had some leftover sundried tomatoes, so I whipped up some sundried tomato dip as well.
The meet up in the park was great. My group leader's daughters were there, as were plenty of other consultant's kids due to the Pupile Free Day, and Zoe was happy to hang out and have a play. There was lots of yummy food, and we were able to graze and socialise a bit. We called it lunch.
After we got home, we had a bit of a clean up of the balcony, which had quite a lot of detritus from various play dates and craft activities. Once that was done, we had some nice down time in the hammock.
We then biked over to a park to catch up with Zoe's friend Mackensie for a play date. The girls had a really nice time, and I discovered that the missing link in the riverside bike path has been completed, which is rather nice for both cycling and running. (It goes to show how long it's been since I've gone for a run, I really need to fix that).
After that, we biked home, and I made dinner. We got through dinner pretty quickly, and so Zoe and I made a batch of ginger beer after dinner, since there was a Thermomix recipe for it. It was cloudy though, and Zoe was more used to the Bunderberg ginger beer, which is probably a bit better filtered, so she wasn't so keen on it.
All in all, it was a really lovely way to spend a Pupil Free Day.