Picnic and First Swim in the Winter at Astwood Park, Feb 28, 2009

We were supposed to go out on the boat, but it didn't work out so we headed off to Astwood Park, just a 5 minutes walk across our house and decided to have a picnic there and probably have our first swim in the winter! We brought nasi goreng with fishball and chinese sausages with sambal, a bag of crisps, some cocktails, beer and a bottle of wine for our little picnic session. Weather was absolutely beautiful this weekend, first good weather as the past few weeks had been raining, thunderstorms and gales.

Below is a picture taken from the cliff of Astwood Park, a very popular park for picnic and also hang-out place. The beach underneath, the thing that annoyed me about this beach was, there were no proper steps leading down towards the beach and we always had to climb down and it was pretty steep.

Laughton and the beach.

Our theme for the day- Picnic in PINK! (pink Nike backpack, pink cooler bag and a pink Kipling!)

Beautiful weather, although a bit windy.

After a heavy lunch, time for him to work on his tans.

A picture of US!

Heading towards the beach! He looks like a gangster in this picture. Ha ha

We finally made it down to the beach! I was busy checking out the water and I decided no, I am not swimming. It was simply too cold and windy for a dip. I'll take photos instead..

Alan was kind enough to be my cameraman for the day. Promised me that he would capture THE moments. Which he did, brilliantly. Nice job, Alan.

I was trying to get closer in the water to take nicer photos. So I said to him, come on, go back a little. A little more.
Opps, I got splashed by a big wave. Argh! Chubbs was smiling at this point as he was just waiting to jump into the sea.

Well, I am contemplating now. To jump or not jump..

Yay! I finally made it! But I was still hestitating until I got splashed all over! brrr.. it was freaking cold!

It was cold, but we still gave our best smile for the camera! :))

Laughton: I'm going to swim and meet the fishes.

Wendy: There won't be any fish-lah in this type of waves. No chance.

Laughton: I will still go- lah. Humour me, please.

Wendy: The water is very clear, NO FISH-la!

Laughton: I don't believe you. Maybe got some further out there.

Compliments of our cameraman.

Thanks Alan, he really did captured the moments!

Portugese man of war (type of jellyfish) spotted just nearby our bags. They are pretty deadly and can cause terrible pain to swimmers. I was so tempted to give it a pop haha but Laughton said no. I always look out for this blue stuff when I swim in Bermuda. Really scares me.

We headed home after that. It was a wonderful afternoon spent!

Dinner at the Madhatters, Feb 27, 2009

I was having the same problem every Friday in Bermuda, same question. Where do we have dinner tonight? There is so limited choice of restaurants and types of food here on the rock. Finally, Chubbs came up with a brilliant suggestion- Madhatters. It was awesome and we enjoyed it every moment just like we did every time we came here. This is one of the best restaurants on the rock and it was great too that Irene joined us for dinner after happy hour drinks at the Fresco's Wine Bar.

Eagerly waiting for FOOD..
Hats, hats and more hats

Hence the name- Madhatters.

Part of the restaurant's decor.

Having our bread for starters. We get excited about the butter as it was very tasty. think its some herbs mixed with the butter.

He was the only one that went for the full course meal. Started of with a roasted quail with mushroom stuffings with some rocket salad. I thought it was the most delicious quail that I had ever tasted! Absolutely beautiful! Chubbs only complaint was, they should have served him a PAIR of quails instead of one as they were so good! But for USD17, that is probably a pricy quail. Hey, it was worth all the money though.

With Irene and our main courses. Think she had the roasted lamb (which was cooked perfect!) and I had the 1/2 lobster and steak a.k.a "the surf and turf" and I truly enjoyed the meal. Definitely the best meal I've had since at Gordon Ramsay's- Claridges. USD42 but I thought I could eat another half pound of lobster. Yummy!

The man looking pleased with his order. He just can't wait to finish them up!

Chubbs and me had the same main course. BEFORE..

.. and AFTER. Sedap!!

Yes, he was a very happy man after a set of wonderful meal.

It's not complete without some chocolate fudge with vanilla ice- cream for this HUGE chocolate lover.

Yes, happy faces after good food. We are easily pleased.

We headed off to the Beach for some drinks after that and then time for bed. Goodnight guys.

Night out at the Pickled Onion Feb 21, 2009

Chubbs had been a good boy all day. I finally gave in and agreed to go for ET's surprise birthday bash. I was hesitant at the beginning when I got the idea of a 9 hours pub crawl at Front Street is part of the birthday bash. Hell no! Finally we agreed to just call in for a couple of hours and since Chubbs been awfully sweet and the fact that I will be going for a long holiday without him, I thought it will be nice to spend some time for him. We were late as usual, the bus just didn't turn up so we ended up waiting for an hour or so and finally got to the Pickled Onion. Anyway, we took a picture before we headed out, all looking nice and smart before we started freezing at the silly bus stop.
Yes, take another one!

Finally there at the PO.

Karla & Mike and Laughton a.k.a Chubbs & Wendy

Karla, Mike, Chubbs, Me and Bernadette

Pickled Onion bar..

It is called the Pickled Onion, hence the "onion" type decor.

More pictures of us during the night

England's next top model? I don't know what he was trying to show me. But this resulted from a nasty comment I made to him I think. :)

Me & Warren

Finally one for the road. It was a fairly pleasant night, a beef kebab shared between us to call it a night.

Tucker's Point Wharf & Watch Hill Park Feb 21, 2009

Oh, before I forget. This is a typical Bermudian favourite meal. BBQ chicken, mac & cheese and coleslaw. This is my early dinner at Specialty Inn. We had a decent meal there. I was too hungry after exploring the caves and all the sight-seeing hehe.

I love this picture. The clouds looks beautiful. We came to check out Watch Hill Park after coming from Tucker's Point Wharf before going for dinner at Specialty Inn.

Watch Hill Park. A view from the top.

After exploring the caves, we then headed off to wander about around the island. First stop was at Tucker's Point Wharf. Below is the proud owner and his Vespa!I can finally wear my Ray-bans today because there is sunshine!! Its been stormy, rainy days all week, even had gales and we had wind coming at 100km/hr or even more! This island is probably the windy-iest place EVER.

I can sit here all day! Doing nothing and gazing at the beautiful view..

Me at my best- doing nothing! I could cope with an early retirement, I really could.