Wonderful weekend by the beach..... sans sunshine!!

I'm not sure if it was coincidental or on purpose that my family had planned a weekend to the beach on my birthday weekend..!! Even though I will be leaving work in a few short weeks.. I desperately needed to recharge my batteries.. Its going to be a tough and busy few weeks and I need all the energy I  can conserve.. 

We headed to Inverloch.. about 150 kms from Melbourne, me squashed in the back seat with Darb's, and mum and dad taking their usual posses in the front!!  It felt very  deja vu aka 20 years ago! Although this time I was feeling slightly on the seedy side (too many birthday G &T's the night before)... So I  did my best and tried to sleep the morning away whilst being poked by a 4 year old!! 

Unfortunately the weather didn't prove spectacular as first forecast ... raining all day Saturday, in fact.. but just being away from home, with no internet was relaxing... Beach.... what beach.. it  certainly wasn't beach weather, but heck we were staying in pure luxury so the location was easily forgotten! Our 'beach" house had every luxury you could ask for, just what I needed, all it was missing was a few butlers to get my cups of tea!!!

 So the weekend consisted of :

❤ One terrible and one amazing coffee...pretty happy with that score !!!

Yummy Birthday Cake for me!!!

❤ Winning 3 games of golf on the WII .. (and losing 1 dance off competition to some very lame 80's music! (Im hoping my sister has deleted the incriminating video!!) 
❤  5 pieces of Birthday Cake - a very yummy banana, pineapple and passionfruit cake with cream cheese icing mmmm
❤  7 games of Guess Who.. I kicked arse at it, albeit for a little cheating when everyone else was drunk! 
❤ No ALCOHOL... WOOHOO
❤ 1 walk to the beach for some sandcastle stomping, (just as it began to rain)
❤ 2 meals that contained chips... this will lead to my new diet starting today!!!!!
In all of this down time I did have a chance to do some reading .... I managed to find a gorgeous store selling inspirational and motivational books.. I picked up a book titled "YES" full of positive quotes about celebrating the joy of living fully!  At the house we were staying at there were books that I flicked through (but should have read more of) -  "Where will you be five years from today!"   This is one of my favourite quotes ... 
" Always Remember you are BRAVER than you believe, STRONGER than you seem, SMARTER thank you think and TWICE AS 
BEAUTIFUL as you'd ever imagined....."
I wish I could listen to that message a little more often when I am doubting myself..... although after a weekend of indulging I can't really see the beautiful side behind my chubby cheeks!  I am in a good need of losing 10 kgs or so..... I think Ill start now before the Festive Kilos creep on..... I wish my skinny Xmas tree could take some of my fat, It seems to be taunting me all starving branches in the corner!! 
Ahh... I think that is enough whinging for the day... all in all I had a wonderful birthday weekend... with my very sweet family, they do a great job of looking after me when times are tough... so a break away like this is the perfect remedy! 
Until next time..... 
I will hopefully have drunk more on my coffee list!

Today I am linking up with the gorgeous Sonia at Life Love and Hiccups

Darbs walking the line!

Blue Eyes... Darbs and I 

Having a dip in the freezing Spa!

Laura and Darbs having a coffee

Beach time and looking super stylish!

Say Cheeessseeee

Looking happy after a decent
coffee!! Yay!