Another busy weekend

Last week my Fuji F410 died on me after 9,430 photos. And because we are going on a short holiday to Noosa soon we needed a new digital camera our choice finally came to a black Panasonic Lumix TZ3 with 10x optical zoom a lot of new functions and pretty much idiot proof.
I did however went to a website called Fixya with my camera's problem, they alerted me that my Fuji may be part of a recall as a few years ago the the chips of quite a few camera brands were found to be faulty and rather then have a massive recall some companies opted to repair the fault free of charge only after a consumer has that specific fault as I read in this Wallstreet Journal article. So the camera is on its own little holiday to see if that is the case . Fingers crossed it will be back as new in a few weeks . If it's not that particular fault it is unfortunately not worth to fix and then we were better of to upgrade as we did already.
So now all I needed to do is wait for us to go out there and try out the new camera . And that came Friday when we went to Sculpture by the Sea fearing it would be really busy during the weekend. And to our delight it was relatively quiet and the weather really held up well although the forecast was showers. For anyone who is in Sydney until 18/11/07 it is certainly worthwhile to take a look.

Having been there on Friday meant we still had most of the weekend ahead of us. We then decided to go to bills Surry Hills on Saturday to have lunch at one of Bill Granger 's restaurants.

And after a great and reasonably priced lunch we just ambled through Surry Hills and visited the studio of a local artist the late Brett Whitely. Unfortunately not all his work is on display at once but rotating the studio also contains a travelling exhibitions . So hopefully in a few months some of his other art will be on display again. Don't get me wrong it was all still nice.

Oh, and we also went to Kings Cross during daylight a first for us. We hardly recognised it and we finished our day out with another fine meal, dinner this time in a very nice Italian restaurant called Il Fagiano in Potts Point.