Fandabbidosi weekend!

This last weekend has been long awaited, and nearly got called off a few times,  luckily it did go ahead.  By Friday lunchtime I'd waved off mum,  then just had to wait for my two mates to get here. Sadly both got caught up in traffic on the motorway so were badly delayed.  Tho one, who has no sense of direction, and that is also with a SatNav, spent about 45 minutes circling the neighbourhood, forever missing the road/turning she needed...  she called me every ten minutes to let me know where she was... it was interesting!   But we finally got together, and after a quick cuppa and a hug, we headed off to get some food, managed to grab the last of the curry meals at supermarket,  and a bottle or 3 of wine - hic.   Took us ages to cook the curry using the microwave,  but we made pigs of ourselves and chatted the night away.   Next day it was up and at em to go get a battery charger for friend who had lost hers...   we couldn't get what we needed at retail park, so came home, and hopped on bus and headed for the city.   I did dither over the new camera,  looked in several shops, new Argos had one of the models I wanted,  but then saw a better model for just a few quid more, so got that.  It is a Lumix,  all singing and dancing,  course I had to buy the extra SD card!  It really bugs me that,  can you imagine buying a PC and then being told you need to then buy the hard drive... that is what it is like, and it is a rip off.  They should standardise the SD cards, one size fits all, same with the chargers.  Assistant did try to flog me the most expensive, told her to forget it that the cheapest would do...    so had new camera, off we went to celebrate our purchases with drink at tapas bar,  all very swanky with swanky prices.  It was fun tho, the staff were in fancy dress.  We intended to have one drink, but that turned into two...   and then we stopped,  cos it was far too expensive.  And off home,  we stopped at the chinese restaurant,  food was delicious but the portions were just too big.   Yesterday was all cultural,  we spent it battling the wind at the Pier Head, all 3 of us came close to being blown over, for some strange reason there were very few folk about, and no takers for the open top tourist bus!   After that we went to Paddys Wigwam, or the Catholic Cathedral,   it is a very striking building,  the choir was practising so it made it very magical, and spiritual.   We wrapped it all off with a mini tour round the Pool - weather was far too foul for anything else. 

And all in all a good weekend was had by all.  Mum also enjoyed her weekend,  so everyone was a winner :-)

And picwas taken with new camera  inside Paddy's Wigwam,  it depicts Jacob sacrificing the lamb... it was an amazing sculpture. 

Hope you all had a good weekend