Last night, after work Mum, Sophie and me went to Milton Keynes to do a little bit of shopping and for Soph to get her ears pierced again. I'd had a busy day at work, getting lots of things done and having a quick meeting with our Nursery Manager as we will soon have three Nursery Nurses off on maternity leave, which will affect us quite a bit!
It was great to get out of work and relax. Sophie was nervous about her ears being pierced at Claire's but it all went well and I was impressed with the cleanliness and the advice she was given. So now, she'll be sporting two pairs of ear-rings in each ear! From there we meandered up to John Lewis, admiring the new restaurants along the way. There's a new Nandos, Carluccio's (which looks lovely), Cafe Rouge (very French with an interesting menu) and a YoSushi which I've never tried. A lot of the tables were set outside but as it was a lot cooler than of late, no-one was braving the evening air!
In John Lewis we spent an enjoyable few minutes testing out the perfumes. I know you're supposed to use the little cards but we were spraying the different scents all over our wrists and arms and I dread to think what we smelt like when we ventured up to the top floor to buy Sophie a new school blazer!
Back downstairs, we drooled over cushions, paintings and quilt covers before making our way back to the car. I'd booked a table for 7.30pm for Las Iguanas near to Brasserie Blanc where I went with Sue last week. It was only a short drive to The Hub which has lots of restaurants and bars. At first we were a bit taken aback as the bar was crammed with people drinking cocktails and the noise level was tremendous! Although we were a bit early we were taken to our table which thankfully was in a quieter bit of the restaurant!
We had a lovely meal and were very impressed with the service, the atmosphere and the food. Sophie went for her favourite, chicken fajitas, mum chose a burger while I had a delicious burrito stuffed with steak and caramelised onions. My salad was beautiful and both mum and Sophie also had side dishes of curly fries with a gorgeous dip. While we looked at the menu we also munched on some tortilla chips with a salsa dip.
For dessert, Sophie and I shared a "fruity fajita" - peaches, pineapple and banana in a cinnamon sauce with ice-cream, yoghurt and shaved chocolate...Yum!
6 comments:
I thought you would like it there Jane, next time you must try the Xingu beer, its lush!!
SWS
Hi Janie,
Hope you and your family are all well and managing to enjoy the warm weather of late.
There is a new Indian Takeaway opeing in our village on August 3rd next to the One Stop shop.
Not sure whether you are into Indian food,{we aren't} but you might like to give it a try{I'm not on comission lol}
Wendyx
sws - definitely going to try that beer! Do you know where else it's available?
Wendy - I'm fine and hope you are as well. The Indian sounds good. Keith went to the One Stop shop this morning to get a paper and said it's called India 2 Mawsley - very good! I'll look forward to trying it! :)
Hi Jane, it looks like Tescos stock it, let me know if you find it there, worth trying to get some.
SWS
Hi Janie,
According to our village forum the grand opening of the Indian Takeway isn't going to happen tomorrow and as yet no new date has been put forward so watch that space....
Thank you for letting me know! We will keep an eye out for it as we regularly go and buy the newspaper there or things we've forgotten to get. It will come in very handy for us, when the Indian munchies strike! :)
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