We went to Fitzroy Gardens and visited James Cook’s Cottage. After that we met up with Shan to go shopping at Brunswick area.

I had a brillant plan coz I can read maps very well (ya right!). I had this strange idea that Fitzroy Gardens is very near to Brunswick St. At least on the map, I estimated it’ll prob take 15 mins to walk from the garden. But what I didn’t realise was that it took at least 10 mins to get from one end of the garden to the other! It is huge! And another 10-15 mins to walk to the START(!) of Brunswick St. The real shopping only starts much further down the street. Of course Sophie had to fall asleep along the way and made the journey longer coz she’s getting heavy! When we finally got there, poor Shan had to walk from the happening end of the street to meet us at the beginning of the street and by then we were famished!

We ate lunch at the nearest decent place and thank God we chose a good one! The food was amazingly good and I ordered a hot chocolate thinking that I’ll share with Sophie BUT the lady was so sweet! She gave Sophie a hot chocolate, Babycino style, on the house! Wow! Sweet! Sophie finished the entire glass! She also had her own lunch of scrambled eggs and raisin toast. Yumms!

After that, we went shopping! It’s a lovely area with an eclectic mix of shops – it’s got vintage stuff, high end designer stuff, local designer stuff, books, homeware etc. Our fav type of street. Somewhat like our Haji lane but 10x the range and size. We had a great time just looking at stuff. Didn’t buy much but just so nice to look.

We shopped, stopped for drinks (and pee break for Sophie, btw she’s been doing great with the toilet training!), shopped some more and finally when we couldn’t shop anymore (oh, actually the shops were closing!), we took a final drink break and went home. It’s amazing how the shops say they’ll close at 5 but by 4.30, they are packing and leaving! It’s great to be at a place where family and home means more than work. I can also understand why kids sleep at 7pm. There’s simply nothing else to do after 5pm. So Sophie’s back to sleeping at 8pm after dinner and wash up. Since we’ve moved to D’s place, I’ve been cooking her dinner every night. At least she’s eating 2 good meals a day – breakfast and dinner.

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