HS catch up

Ok this will be quick. I'm absolutely dead tired and still have to get up early for work tomorrow =( I was so alert, driving for about 2 hours there and 2 hours back from Canberra (yes, went to visit the Floriade, in rain, which... was actually not a bad thing because when it rains, you see water droplets on flowers which are quite attractive). 

Observing long driving trips like this, you start to gather what the road rules are. There are the safe drivers, usually sticking to the left lane because they are usually driving at around 100km in the 110 highway. There are the slow ones who disrupt the flow of 100km cars, forcing them to overtake on the right lane, and move back into the left after overtaking (also known as the nice cars, following the "keep left unless overtaking" signs). Then there are the impatient ones, who stays on the right lane because they are usually at about 120km and do not bother shifting back to the left lane after overtaking- they'll only have to switch right again to overtake another car. 

 Which am I? I try to stick to 110 and overtake when necessary and move back left when I can... but turns out, I'm mainly a right lane hogger.

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That's the end of the story for today. This was at Portofino, an Italian restaurant at Leichhardt (gosh, I doubt myself each time I spell that suburb... keep thinking that I'm doing it wrong). Their bruschetta pizza crust was pretty good~

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Mozzarella and garlic pizza crust, another entree. We thought that by ordering more entrees (to kill time waiting for others to arrive), we could order less mains. Unfortunately, we were told we had to order one main per person.

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Zucchini flowers, which were not on the usual menu. First time I ever have zucchini flowers, these were stuffed with risotto and cheese, and each flower had a baby zucchini attached to it... so good!

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Pasta, think this was their "LINGUINI CON GAMBERONI - Sautéed Prawns with julienne of sundried tomato, olive cheeks, shallots, garlic, chilli and parmesan"

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Please forgive the bad photos. I wasn't in the mood for taking photos that night.

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M.F's special pizza, especially designed for him it appears, simply because it had no vegetables at all, just... MEAT. This is their "CARNE - Double smoked leg ham, cabanosi and salami".

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Really liked this. I'm a big fan of pumpkins or sweet potato as pizza toppings. "AL POLLO E ZUCCA - smoked chicken, roasted pumpkin, mushroom", this was perfect! 

 We couldn't finish everything though and M.F. had to take home his pizza. Not that he minded =D

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This was their dessert, a trio of gelato. We were really expecting scoops of gelato on a plate, but it came in this weird pyramid...

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I wouldn't say it's bad, but when you're expecting giant scoops of gelato, this is really not it. Wasn't a bad catch up with high school friends though. Just thinking about it, this was about a month or so ago. SO much has changed within the group, it's... quite crazy. 

... Goodnight!