Oh dear, all my good intentions of trying to keep up with the blog have gone to pot mostly due to the fact that my parents have been with us for the last 4 weeks. What has been happening?Well we managed to finally find an excuse to head for the Victorian Alps although not for skiing but hill walking. This happened at the end of November just before my parents arrived and we camped next to Lake Catani with Bes and her family again.
We had planned to do the famous ridgeback walk at Mt Featherstone initially but after investigation decided it was too dangerous for the kids especially with our luck!
We did enjoy some lovely local walks at Mt. Buffalo and the ever energetic Bes also fished and cycled with the kids although not at the same time. The scenery was truly stunning and some of it was a little reminiscent of our Highland jaunts which made me feel a little homesick yet again!
My parents arrived at the beginning of Dec and since then it has felt like one long holiday with copious amounts of eating and drinking - alas i am half a stone heavier! The kids have also finished school for this year and now have been on summer hols for the last 2 weeks.
Christmas proved as surreal as I thought it would be with for the first time ever for me , a meal out. We ate in a great restaurant called the Lobster Cave and I enjoyed eating the biggest fish I have ever seen cooked!!
New Year's Eve was meant to be spent in its entirety on the beach with a picnic watching the fireworks over the CBD from a great vantage point. Unfortunately Cyclone Laurence had something to say about that and its effects were felt in Melbourne; its side winds caused an enormous electrical thunderstorm which outshone the human fireworks.
We lasted as long as we could on the beach watching the storm front approach, initially in 36 degrees , blazing sunshine and a hot wind and then by 8.45pm in heavy charged cloud and a cool but very blustery gale which preceded some awesome fork and sheet lightening. What does that say for the next decade? We ended up welcoming in the New Year at a lovely neighbour's house and then it was 2010.......
Saving our Taz hol details, Great ocean road etc for another time
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