a very busy friday and the road trip down south

took time off last friday to do some stuff. i thought that instead of arriving late to work or leaving early to do some pregnancy related tests, might as well take the entire day off and do some errands as well. i started the day early going to the hospital for my long glucose tolerance test (the short gtt came out with a result of a couple of points higher than the tolerance level so my ob decided for me to undergo the long gtt to ensure that i don't have gestational diabetes). eric and i were already in the hospital the night before for the baby boy's fetal echocardiogram that the doctor wanted for us to do on our 24th week but we were in manila at that time and last thursday (28th week) was the only schedule we can get from the specialist to do the scan. everything seems to be okay we were told which is good. anyway, after that i went to see my gp since the ob was quite concerned about my high blood pressure eversince i got pregnant. the gp however confirmed that i have always been on the high side anyway but still checked for protein in my urine just to check if i manifest any signs of pre-eclampsia. results turned out negative but it will be checked by my ob every two weeks from now on. i then went to the shops to grab some lunch (i had to fast for the long gtt so i was already starving), had passport photos taken and then go to hcf and medicare for reimbursment of some medical expenses. i took the train to go to the city to go to the philippine embassy to have my passport extended and amended with my married name (finally, after 3 years of being married). since eric's been working with a client in the city the past couple of weeks, we decided to have dinner at the meat & wine co in darling harbour (eric truly enjoyed his prime cut fillet while i feasted on my prawn and beef skewer). we capped off our sumptuous dinner with a very rich cake from the lindt chocolat cafe in cockle bay wharf.

we just came back from an overnight trip to jervis bay (about three hours drive from sydney). with just a couple more week to go before the end of summer and feeling guilty of not planning anything during the australia day long weekend last week, we've made arrangements to go to jervis bay this weekend since aris and jen raved about how great hyams beach is when they went there around the same time last year. it has been raining (and hailing!) in sydney during the week so i wasn't really expecting that we could go to the beach yesterday. to our excitement, the weather was pretty good down there, blue and clear skies and the water was just so inviting! jen wasn't kidding when she said that the sand is really white and fine, reminds me so much of boracay. we stayed at a two-story loft apartment in dolphin shores dolphin shores and had a fantastic, filling dinner of mexican food at 3 gringos. on our way back to gloomy sydney today (it's still raining), we passed by woolloongong and had fish and chips for lunch.

i'm pretty tried now given my activity-filled past couple of days, and it's back to work tomorrow!

*baby and pregnancy updates soon!