When it rains it pours..

This blog post starts off on a funny note.

On Thursday night at my aqua aerobics class, the teacher had forgotten
to charge her ipod and so we were facing an hour of aqua with no music!
It was a horrific, horrific prospect, so when she asked if anyone in the
class (who were currently in the water) had an ipod on them, I had to
let it be known that I did, albeit in the car.

So off Becka went to fetch the ipod (all us grown ups were cold and
wet.. And well.. Lazy). I was a bit nervous about it.. Its amazing how
laid bare you feel when exposing your private music to strangers. After
making sure no one said diddly about my choice of music, she put my ipod
on shuffle and away we went.. To the strains of.. War of the Worlds..
Phantom of the Opera.. Olivia Newton John.. Dean Martin.. And mostly
Russian music. It was an interesting experience ;-)

Saturday is where this story starts to decline..

We went to a birthday party for the 1yr old daughter of a friend of
Tony's. It was at Homebush at Bicentennial Park. The party started out
ok, but then Josie ran down a hill, fell, skinned her knee good and
proper and howled for the next 30 mins. Poor thing was very clingy for
the rest of the party, till the pinata came out and she gave it several
good whacks and managed to break the thing.

Around the end of the party we found out that a number (5-6) cars had
been broken into in the car park where our car was. When Tony went down
to have a look he found that our car, while the window had not been
broken, had been broken into through the drivers side lock. They broke
apart the glove compartment, pulled out the stereo, went in the back,
moved the child seat aside, climbed into the boot and took Tony's
backpack.. Which had his laptop in it. Oh joy. The rest of the day was a
bit of a nightmare. We sat around waiting for the police for about 2
hours and when they didn't come we gave up and went home. After speaking
to the NRMA we found that they wouldn't cover the laptop and we're not
sure about the stereo, their claims dept needs to call me back. Gio was
less helpful, telling me that while I do have Personal Effects cover on
my home and contents, because we didn't specify the laptop, its not
covered with them either. What the HELL do we pay insurance for!?

So. What fun. Like we don't have enough to worry about.

Sunday was a bit better, with a nice brunch at Coogee with my Baba, Vika
and Becka. After brunch I dropped off Josie at Granny's so that she
could take her to Jacqui's dance recital that we all missed last night
while waiting for the Police. She enjoyed that immensely.

After that we met at the school to check out the P-6 Artwork Exhibition
that was on. Apparently every child in the infants and primary had
something up. It was gorgeous.

And that was the end of our weekend.