Girls day out

Grace and I are headed up to Brisbane tomorrow.  We are going to have a beautiful day together visiting the museum, gallery of Modern Art and the National Library.  We are also going to have a lovely  lunch together and maybe chat over a babycinno or 2.  Oh, and go see Mary Poppins!!!!

I'm so excited about this.  I knew as soon as I saw this advertised that I'd love to take Grace along, but I was a little disheartened once I found out the crazy price it was.  I've been scouring ebay, gumtree and all other classifieds over the last few weeks in the hopes of getting a good deal.  Then today, one of my stalkbook facebook friends announced they had 3 tickets to sell for tomorrow's matinee - perfect for me!!   I sent a text out to all my friends who I thought would be interested, and the lovely Amanda was first to reply with a YES PLEASE!!!!  I haggled the price of the A reserve tickets down from $360 for the 3, to a much more affordable $200 for all 3 tickets.  They look like relatively good seats from the seating plan, and I called Qtac who also said they are a great spot.  I'm a little concerned as they are towards the back of the stalls, but  apparently lots of this show happens in the air so we should have a good view!

Grace is bubbling with excitement, and I just hope she can contain herself for the nearly 3 hour show!  Just before Christmas we sold her dolls house (she'd only ever used it a handful of times), so the $80 we got for that is going towards this luxury purchase.  I had to justify it somehow, as really at this crazy expensive time of the year, I should be thinking about bills, school fees and all the associated costs - but this is too good an opportunity to miss!  Grace has had a love of live theatre since I took her along last year to see Beauty and the Beast.  I promised her then that it would be something that we did together every year, whether it be small local productions, or big, extravagant ones - this will be our special little thing together.