two picnics in five days! i really do enjoy a picnic, even (or maybe, especially) when the preparation, in today’s case, has been along the lines of, “let’s get something from that food court,” and “shall we take it to that park on the corner?”.

sunday afternoon, we walked down darling in the hot hot heat. stopping at about life for as long as it took to procure:
– a bag of paprika potato chips
– a punnet of blueberries and a punnet of raspberries
– a large fruit salad, consisting two kinds of melon, pineapple, mango, strawberries and blueberries (so many blueberries — the ladle girl kept scooping extra spoons of blueberries as afterthoughts!)
– a tub of fetta stuffed red peppers
– a pearl barley salad and a roast vegetable salad
– a blueberry pop for me: watermelon, blueberries and sorbet in a blender
– a bottle of organic ginger beer for the boy: the surprise at checkout was that it cost $ 5.20 for 500ml.

…then continued walking (and walking and walking) to callan park where sprawling and eating ensued. dinner that evening was unnecessary, although i suddenly found myself finishing a half-eaten bag of paprika chips, and instantly regretting it.

this afternoon, we caught a ferry into the city and stumbled into a nearby food court that was just working up to lunchtime crush. we came away with:
– a schnitzel and eggplant focaccia sandwich for the boy
– a schnitzel and avocado and lettuce (like, a lettuce patch worth of shredded lettuce) wrap for me
– a very unusual pear, fetta and walnut salad (dressed in wholegrain mustard and mayonnaise. and raisins.

we like a schnitzel, our lot. although we figure the baby probably liked the pear more, the way she shoved fistfuls of it into her mouth, one after the other without bothering with such minor technicalities as swallowing… until we hid the tub of salad and pointed her in the direction of an ugly ibis.