Thursday, June 08, 2006

Mum's Weekend

I recently got this email from mum about her weekend
"Just an email to let you know what we did on our holidays. We arrived at Marysville about 8.30pm on a wet and stormy Sunday night. We were supposed to set up our tent but I chickened out, so we opted for a cabin. Just as well; the temperature went to around zero some nights! Monday, we re-acquainted ourselves with Marysville which is a quaint village about 100km north east of Melbourne City. Tuesday, we went to Healesville to visit the Wild-Life Sanctuary.

Bernie can attach some photos to this email so you can see what it was like. Wednesday, we did some walks in the local area. We climbed to the top of Lake Mountain which is near Marysville. They have Nordic skiing tracks there which they use for cross country skiing in the winter. The season opens this long weekend. Back to the cabin for lunch, then another walk to see the big tree, at Cambervale, in the afternoon.


I went to bed early that night, about 7.30pm! Thursday, we went to Melbourne; did some shopping at the sales ( I have never seen so many men in suits, all shopping by themselves for themselves. They have a David Jones shop just for men! ), then went to the movies to see "The Da Vinci Code". I enjoyed the movie, it was a bit of fun. Friday, we started our return trip. We decided to take two days to go home. We explored the Yarra Valley and King's Valley; visited the Brown Brothers winery for wine tasting ( we bought some wine there and will try it on Bernie's birthday ) and then stayed the night at Beechworth. We have never been there before. Many of the buildings in the town centre must have a heritage order on them because they were quite old, but in good condition. The historic nature of the town has been preserved even new shops are built in a similar style. I would say that Beechworth has become a trendy place to live. Saturday, we just drove straight home from Beechworth, through Wodonga/Albury then up the Hume highway; arriving home about 5pm. It was an enjoyable week and a great break from work."

Let this be an encouragement to others, if you want to let people know about your weekend or project then let me know in an email and I'll post it for you.

1 comment:

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