A very good Friday

Yum!

My friend CB leaves for her new postdoctoral position in Cincinnati, Ohio this Sunday. I can’t believe it’s come along this quickly. It great that she’ll have this opportunity to work in research at a quality children’s hospital but my mind keeps wandering to all the things she’ll miss over the next three years. Birthdays, engagements, weddings, babies. So many events will come and go that she simply won’t be a part of because she’s on the other side of the planet. It seems surreal.

Getting crafty at the slum

CB, AL and I managed to catch up on Good Friday. It had been so long since I’d seen those girls. AL has 20 weeks left until her thesis is due for submission so clearly the pressure is on, and CB has been busy trying to get everything organised for her departure. We decided we’d put on SATC, crack open some champagne, serve up cheese and crackers and attempt to get creative with some paper craftiness. CB had us make something she could hang on her new fridge in Cincinnati.

Home of the ultimate 'Death by Chocolate' cake

I’ve been neglecting my photography of late. I’ve had my camera for nearly a year and I’m still not off the automatic settings! They say practice makes perfect and if that’s the case I am waaaay off perfect. CB (who also has a penchant for photography) and I have been meaning to head to King Street in Perth to take some architecture pictures for over a year now but we just never seemed to be able to get ourselves together. On Friday The Boy drove us in to town and CB and AL played supermodel for me so I could take some photos. Note to self: do not consume copious amounts of champagne before taking photos. It turns out a substantial amount of pictures I could have sworn were in focus were not. Lesson learned.

Gucci + Louis Vuitton + Tiffany & Co = undeniable poverty for The Girl

We also headed to The Old Brewery to take some night-time shots across the Swan River and to allow CB to have some fun with ghosting during the slow shutter speeds. I’m seriously going to miss that girl. On the positive side CB comes home for 6 weeks of every year to complete lab work at the children’s hospital here so even though she leaves on Sunday she should be back at the end of July. I think breakfast at (read: adjacent to) Tiffany’s and another (less intoxicated) photo shoot may just be in order.

CB the ghost: drunk photographer or slow shutter speed? You decide.