Visitors in May

We've had lots of visitors lately. I've written about our April visitors so now to our May visitors. 

Casey and Andrew visited for the footy. They're West Coast and Bombers fans respectively as are Paul and I. Since our teams have both been playing much better this year, it was set to be a corker of a match. Unfortunately that also meant that seats were hard to come by, so we were up on the third deck. Great view from up there though!

 

The Eagles fans. 

I look shocking, sorry. In my defence it was raining so my hair is wet, not greasy!!!

Fraternising with the enemy ;)

Lawrence, one of Paul's work mates from Adelaide also visited last month and we took him wine tasting in the Yarra.

Domaine Chandon

Boat O'Craigo

Train Trak

Sticks

(where I didn't take a photo)

Yering Station

We had a great time with both sets of visitors. It's always fun to have people staying as we get to be tourists again. But it is also nice to have quiet time!!

Introducing Brigitte

This post goes all the way back to April, when our new car finally arrived. It took what felt like an eternity for the paperwork to be finalised, but the car was eventually ours the weekend after Easter. Her name is Brigitte Peugeot.

We took her out for a drive that Sunday, with the girls (aka dogs) in the back. Myf was rather offended that she had been relegated to the very back of the from the backseat. It didn't matter to Morgan - all car travel is an attempt on her life.

Our first stop was Woodend where we called in at the brewery for refreshments and to stock up our fridge. Cute 'cellar door' and great beer. I highly recommend it.

  

Next stop was Hanging Rock for a walk with the girls. Dogs aren't allowed up to the rock itself, so we walked around the base. Turned out to be a great move because everyone else was on the other walking trail. It was very quiet and secluded so it was hard to believe it was only an hour out of Melbourne.

 

 

We did at one point hear some rustling in the bushes and got the distinct impression we weren't alone... can you see our audience?

We drove home via Daylesford, but didn't stop. 

Roadtrip number one was a great success (notwithstanding Morgan), so we're very pleased with our new addition.

Excursions over Christmas

Over Christmas we went on a number of family outings. It's taken me a long time to finally upload the photos from the camera, but here they are at last. 

First up is a family trip to the zoo with Paul's parents and his middle brother.

The new (since we were last there) Wild Sea exhibit was pretty awesome and we got there in time to see the seals getting fed and the keeper introduce all the seals to us.

This Monkey had a baby. Can you see it?

I'm not very keen on the butterfly house because all of these insects keep flying at my face. But I did brave it and came out with a couple of pretty photos.

This orangutan was hiding from the crowds. At first I didn't want to take her photo because she was looking so shy, but then I got an awesome position and she was so gorgeous.

 

 

The next outing was down the Mornington Peninsula. This is at Arthur's Seat Lookout and Flinders' Cairn lookout.

Afterwards we met up with friends at Red Hill Brewery and then tasted some wines at Red Hill Winery and 10 Minutes by Tractor.

Our final excursion over this time was with Candice and Jono to visit my boss' cherry farm at Wandin (anyone else thinking A Country Practice?). Len gave us a tour of the farm in his 4WD and it is awesome. We ate cherries fresh from the tree and then, as they were a little understaffed that day, we helped sort some cherries.

We ventured on to Elmswood Winery for an antipasto platter for lunch and some more wine tasting.

That brought us to the end of our holidays. We have been busy with other things since then - some of which I've already posted about and some of which I will post about shortly.