Food Porn courtesy of another four-letter word: W-O-R-K
It's been a full-on week for me.
Aside from Skier_Pete coming to visit, we celebrated DS birthday earlier in the week. And if those two auspicious events weren't enough, I ended up having to do an overnight off-site meeting for W-O-R-K!
I know. I know. I really should avoid using four-letter words on the Dis but somehow, this particular word seems to slip pass the DisFilters every single time!
The company I work for decided that it was way past time for us to come together and reconnect with each other. Whilst there was a lot of work involved in the weekend and I missed being with DH and DS, truth be known, these weekend work love-ins can be a lot of fun as well.
There was no mandatory room-share involved. We all got a room similar to this.
And as I was not assigned Room Monitor status, I cannot speak for the optional room-sharing; but I can attest that I spent the night solo...well....aside from this fellow.
For some reason, I got a room with HA facilities.
I did miss having a bath in the room; but given that I was only there for one night, it really didn't matter much to me.
The resort was located near wine country; with a golf course. I had been here at the start of the year....and those of you that are interested, feel free to head back to the HK PTR/TR and take a look at that mini-vacay at the Yarra Valley in January.
My company knows what is truly important for a work weekend. Food!
Our dinner menu....
The fish cake starter.
The prawn/shrimp starter (plonked down on my place).
The beef main.
The fish main (which I scored. Would have much rather had the beef, but that was the luck of the draw).
Dessert - NOT the Creme Brulee and we still don't know what it is or what happened to the promised brulee!
The Chocolate Fondant (what I scored!)
(Note: For those of you that kept track of the menu....DEFINITELY contains nuts!)
Truly amazing!
I drank more wine than normal but even that wasn't enough to knock me out for the night. I did turn in early but my room was sadly close to the main facilities. I got woken up by some of my colleagues 3 times during the night when they were returning to their rooms....12.30 am; 1.15 am and finally at 2.30 am.
It ended up being an early morning start, and the day did show signs of promise at that time of day....
...er.....I mean the breakfast buffet! I decided not to intrude on my rampaging colleagues and only took pictures of my plate.
It did get hard after this to get any decent pictures of morning tea and lunch. But suffice to say, the morning tea rivalled the desserts we were served the night before and lunch was pretty decent as well.
Despite the hard w-o-r-k and the "rudeness" of having to give up Friday night and my Saturday for the event, it was a lot of fun. And the food was great!