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…
Rebecca in the City
You may remember back in summer we spent a very humid weekend Upstate to celebrate our niece Rebecca’s graduation. For her graduation present we decided to give her a weekend in the city. Rebecca loves cooking and when we did our Le Pain Quotdien baking class earlier in the year we knew we wanted to…
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…
In that fleeting moment..
This is my brother with Marco Simoncelli last weekend. This weekend he was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident in Malaysia and he was only 24 years old. It is always a scary when you are reminded of the realization of how just quickly and without warning, a life can be taken away.
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…
9/11 Memorial
After work today we headed across the road for our first visit to the 9/11 Memorial. When reservations first opened I thought that choosing today would mean that crowds may have shrunk a bit. No such luck. It took about 30 minutes to get into the Memorial. There isn’t much to say other than that…
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…
Worse Things Happen at Sea
This is a little detour of a post because I want to recommend a book that I haven’t even read yet. When we were driving from Parkes to Canberra the only station we could get on the car radio was ABC Radio National. They had a segment where Justine Clarke was reading an excerpt from…
Bliss on JFK-MEL
We are now beginning my series of blog posts on our trip to Australia. Unfortunately, in the upgrade to iOS5 we lost our ‘plane food’ pics on Bill’s phone. When the file gets restored by Apple, I’ll post our usual inflight meal pics! We prepared thoroughly to ensure our flight from JFK to MEL would…
Dave Matthews Band Caravan
The DMB Caravan was supposed to be over the weekend of Hurricane Irene. Emily and I had three day passes where we would be in Dave Heaven for 3 days straight but unfortunately, weather got in our way. We saw the Friday night show and then the Saturday and Sunday were postponed. Oh and before…