I took some photos around the neighborhood today:

Stone Wall

I am half-relaxing half working. What a tiring, but good, day. Had a driving lesson early in the morning. Met up with a friend whose name I will not mention because then I won’t be able to talk about incriminating “froggy” evidence I have on him. Hung out in Fremantle, in the heat (37 degrees today!). Then got back, had a dinner with HHRay (after a very wet after-pool hug), bussed it back to my house, took a 2km run, had a shower, got my things ready for tomorrow, ordered some sides from Eagle Boys, and am now working/relaxing/watching Eagle Eye.

It’s such a nice, relaxing, warm night.

The C Restaurant was definitely not a disappointment overall.
Some points we noticed since we got there:
- Everyone is either French or has learned to imitate the French accent very well.
- The view is amazing.
- You feel like a fish out of the water for the first few minutes because you’ve never been to any place quite this fancy before.
- The service is superb.

For $74 each person gets either an Entre and a main course or a main course and a dessert. On Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays, however, there is a 15% surcharge – which brings  the meal to about $80-something overall plus drinks. Additional Entres or desserts are $15 each. You get free appetisers – these are delivered in one miniature shot glass per person and are the only ‘free’ food you will receive the whole night. 

The watermelon-y appetizer

Anyway, we got there at 7:30pm hoping to be just in time for the sunset. We were in time, alright, but unfortunately ended up on the side where we couldn’t see the sun just as the sunset struck! In fact, most of the tables were on this side as well so nobody in the restaurant caught the actual sunset. This is one thing that HHRay and I were very disappointed with – it would be one thing if we just happened to be seated on the side that didn’t catch the sunset, but everyone was arranged in a way that we were all on the wrong side of the setting sun!

View

The food, in my opinion, was heavenly. I ordered the Chicken Roulade and HHRay had the Beef Fillet and we didn’t have to wait long at all for our food to arrive – at perfect eating temperature! 

CHICKEN ROULADE: Parma wrapped chicken and brie roulade, roast courgette, mango and macadamia relish   

BEEF FILLET: Char grilled grass fed Tasmanian beef fillet, Tuscan bread salsa, artichoke, lemon emulsion 

The food looked so great that I completely forgot to take a photo and began to eat as soon as it arrived. But I later remembered – when the meal was half-finished.

My half-eaten Chicken Roulade

HHRay's half-eaten Beef Fillet

HHRay also got French-talked into a salad to go with his beef, which we didn’t end up even touching as our meals were so filling! The portions were just about perfect – with me feeling just a little bit too-full by the end.

The salad-"The One We Didn't Eat"

For dessert I had a completely awesome Vanilla Parfait and HHRay had the not-so-awesome Chocolate Mousse (you can see how the photo quality is getting worse and worse as it gets dark):

Vanilla Parfait

Half-munched Chocolate Mousse

We also got a Vienna coffee for myself and a Cappucino for HHRay, but I forgot to take photos (it was too dark by that time, anyway).

Overall, it was a very nice night and I would definitely love to visit the C Restaurant again for another special occasion.

HHRay and I are going to the C restaurant this Sunday. This will be our 2-year anniversary dinner (the actual anniversary is on Monday). I booked and requested a window table (who wants to pay over $80 for a meal in a rotating restaurant if you can’t even get a table near the view?) and they said “That should be possible, but we’ll have to see on the night.” So we’ll come in, ask them what table they’re seating us at and if it isn’t a window table we’ll leave and go to another – cheaper – restaurant.

Boris and I went to Perth and then Fremantle today. It was fun :D He got me such an awesome Christmas present, I wish I was that creative with my gifts! I’ll post pictures of it later, not having photos to show while writing about it just doesn’t do the gift justice. 

Purchases of the Day:
- Awesome pancakes for breakfast
- Hand-made soap (made by moi ;))  (Christmas Gift)
- Incense (Christmas Gift)
- Candle Holder (Christmas Gift)
- Lotion Sets x2 (Christmas Gift)
- Vanilla Milkshake
- Boost Juice
- The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
- NLP Workbook by Joseph O’Connor