After a very full day at the show, we got up early on Monday morning to pick up a rental car and hit the road. It was going to be a straight trip up the Hume Highway to Albury with a couple of stops in between. The car was delayed so we hung out in…
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Show Day!
Sorry to be jumping around on blog posts… here we are back in Australia! On Sunday (aka the day after the Grand Final) the plan was to avoid all news, tv shows and phone calls we could about the football. The Royal Melbourne Show (aka The Show) was the PERFECT solution to all those post-Grand…
One day in Sept… oops… October
Back on to posts on the Australian trip. Sorry for getting a little sidetracked. On my last post we were at the Grand Final Parade. When Saturday rolled around, it was Grand Final Day. The game came and went in a blur. Bill would watch the game at home with mum and dad, I’d be…
PlugBug
Another ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ moment! The PlugBug! Within 15 minutes of seeing this baby, it was purchased! At home I can live without it but when traveling… nope. Hotel powerpoint space is at a premium when Bill and I travel. The hotel we always stay in when we visit Albany is lacking…
Queen Vic Market / Grand Final Parade / Parl
The Friday before the Grand Final in Melbourne is fun fun fun! We had another full day planned so… here we go! We spent the morning at the Queen Victoria Market. Hot jam donuts were in order! Here is Bill placing his order – Score! We walked around the halls quickly, but as usual, we…
Melbourne and Norflandz
Wednesday was a full day in the city – I had the last of my ‘change my name to Blevins’ errands to run for the few places left where the name change had to be done in person. We wandered around Melbourne Central (yes, we watched the Waltzing Matilda clock) and went to Mass at…
A sheep or two and a kangaroo…
Our day trip to Healesville and Maroondah Reservoir was on a gorgeous, crisp morning. I had not been to Healesville for years and it was lovely to get out of the city, so we spent a few hours there and had lunch in the cafe. Bill had an ‘up close and personal’ moment with a…
Back to the ‘G
A great addition to our itinerary in Melbourne was to do the MCG Tour with a visit to the National Sports Museum. It is so much fun being a tourist in your home town! We parked nearby and I ran in to Rod Laver Arena to pick up my Grand Final tickets. I was a…
Colonial Tramcar Restaurant
…back to our Australian holiday posts! After the exhausting night at the football, Saturday and Sunday were so relaxing. Aunty Shirl and Nana came for a girls lunch, while Bill went to the local football for a while with dad. On Sunday night we went out for dinner on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant. We had…
So we got off the plane…
When we landed in Melbourne it was Friday morning. We were home by 10am and by 10.01am I was gulping cordial by the litre! It was so good.. mum knows exactly how to make it! Bill jumped straight in the shower and he was asleep by 1pm. Normally we would never sleep on the day…