Milestone lunches..

Milestone lunches...

In between Chris’s treatment, time seems to move slowly. Chris doesn't start to pick up again until at least the following Thursday (a week or so) after treatment.

Throughout the week, when I have to go to work, Chris spends days by herself or her Mum, brother & sister pop by to look after her. However, there is a lot of alone time, where Chris can do nothing but sleep or just rest on the couch as she just doesn’t have the energy to get out of the house. That type of alone time for a person that was usually busy with work (Chris hasn't worked now for 5 weeks), family & social plans, really starts to take a downward effect. That coupled with a constant feeling of sickness is enough for even the most positive of people to sometimes get down.

Chris's spirits were particularly down this week & I could see her disconnecting from people & depression slipping in.

Dam it if I was going to let that happen..Once Chris was feeling a bit better, I took a couple of days off & decided I was going to get her moving & out of the house. I spoke to Susie & fortunately she was available, so it couldn't have been more perfect. It was time for a milestone lunch to celebrate how far Chris had come.

We drove into town & quickly stopped in at Newtown. We got Chris a great jacket & a new top, sometimes a little retail therapy is just what the Dr ordered.

We then all headed off to Neil Perry’s Rockpool Bar & Grill restaurant, for a well deserved long lunch. Wow, the building was just gorgeous..Old art deco heritage, built around 1932, it is just stunning, the picture below is of the roof top shot of Rockpool.

We started with seafood entrees & for mains Chris ordered a steak for her main (a good iron fix) I ordered the crispy king george whiting fillets with “crazy water” & Susie had wagyu bolognese with hand cut fettuccine.

But let’s face it, it’s really all about the deserts & might I add they were divine; I ordered petite fours, salted caramels & a devil’s food cupcake. Susie had a dark chocolate pudding tart with chocolate sorbet & Chris had ice cream profiteroles, gah amazing. Our lunch went over the space of a few hours, we ate leisurely, it was heavenly & just what Chris needed to pick her up & pop her back into the land of the living.

Me & my baby, so good to see that smile!

The dark chocolate pudding tart with chocolate sorbet.

 The ice cream profiteroles.

A beautiful photo of Susie & Chris.

We decided that milestone, celebratory lunches, need to be a regular thing & that we shall all dine our way around Sydney, celebrating Chris battle!

Another shot of the inside of Rockpool.