After months of carting the kids around, we were looking forward to stopping for awhile and surrounding ourselves with friends and family. Tim had graciously offered his spare room, his car and access to his restaurant any time of day. In fact we may have squeezed our way into poor Tim’s life a little too much considering that he personally escorted us to the airport making sure we were really off to India. But lets go back to the beginning, for there are many stories to tell from this leg of our journey.
We arrived mid December in the thick of the holiday spirit……. Australian style. The lengthy daylight saving inspired days of +30c with Santa walking through the shopping malls dressed in full furry redness, while Christmas carols rejoice about dashing through the snow that would last less than a millisecond outside. That’s pretty much all we saw of our first week in Berwick as we scram
bled to replace clothing that the Spanish postal service had misplaced. Not to mention the shifts we both put into the restaurant bartending to help Tim through the Christmas rush.
My sister Carolyn, (those of you at the wedding would remember her for the heartfelt speech she gave of cross -dressing me when I was a baby) has hosted the last few Christmas dinners so it was decided to have it at my Mother's house with Jen & I doing the cooking. We took over Tim's restaurant and Jen had a ball preparing the traditional Canadian style Christmas feast in a full industrial kitchen. The cooking was finished off at Mum's and all 14 of us stuffed ourselves with turkey and trimmings.
New years was a laid back affair with us taking desperate measures to escape the 43c
heat at the Gold Class Cinema, where we could relax in the wonderfully cool darkness and watch a movie. Actually, for the non Aussie readers, Goldclass is something we NEED in Canada. A cinema with full reclining chairs, where staff come in and serve you food and wine at your seat during the movie. NICE. The rest of the New Year was rung in Aussie style (on the beach with an Eskie full of beverages).
Early January had us headed into the country for my cousin Leonard`s wedding. Country hospitality and the chance to catch up with family I have not seen in 20 years was certainly something I was not going to miss.
Of course a trip to Aus is not complete without a little wine tasting so an overnight expedition to the Yarra Valley was a great trip into the countryside courtesy of Neil who booked us a fantastic room with a view of the entire valley as our wedding gift.
We enjoyed it so much that we had to head back out for a day trip when Jen's friends Jessica and Steve met up with us!
With India looming quickly, Tim hosted a well attended BBQ, it was grea to catch up with old friends!
And we cannot forget our annual pilgrimage to Albury for a visit with Matt & Vanessa who took us out for a day of music in the vineyards at the annual “Day On The Green” where we partied with some classic Aussie bands. A little too much, considering the slow start to Sunday. Abigail was showing off her newfound skill of walking and babbling, and she's as cute as ever.
We are excited to be headed off to India and all that a new country has to offer. We've been told that we will either love it or hate it. Which will it be?
We arrived mid December in the thick of the holiday spirit……. Australian style. The lengthy daylight saving inspired days of +30c with Santa walking through the shopping malls dressed in full furry redness, while Christmas carols rejoice about dashing through the snow that would last less than a millisecond outside. That’s pretty much all we saw of our first week in Berwick as we scram
bled to replace clothing that the Spanish postal service had misplaced. Not to mention the shifts we both put into the restaurant bartending to help Tim through the Christmas rush.My sister Carolyn, (those of you at the wedding would remember her for the heartfelt speech she gave of cross -dressing me when I was a baby) has hosted the last few Christmas dinners so it was decided to have it at my Mother's house with Jen & I doing the cooking. We took over Tim's restaurant and Jen had a ball preparing the traditional Canadian style Christmas feast in a full industrial kitchen. The cooking was finished off at Mum's and all 14 of us stuffed ourselves with turkey and trimmings.
New years was a laid back affair with us taking desperate measures to escape the 43c
heat at the Gold Class Cinema, where we could relax in the wonderfully cool darkness and watch a movie. Actually, for the non Aussie readers, Goldclass is something we NEED in Canada. A cinema with full reclining chairs, where staff come in and serve you food and wine at your seat during the movie. NICE. The rest of the New Year was rung in Aussie style (on the beach with an Eskie full of beverages).
Early January had us headed into the country for my cousin Leonard`s wedding. Country hospitality and the chance to catch up with family I have not seen in 20 years was certainly something I was not going to miss.
Of course a trip to Aus is not complete without a little wine tasting so an overnight expedition to the Yarra Valley was a great trip into the countryside courtesy of Neil who booked us a fantastic room with a view of the entire valley as our wedding gift.
We enjoyed it so much that we had to head back out for a day trip when Jen's friends Jessica and Steve met up with us!
With India looming quickly, Tim hosted a well attended BBQ, it was grea to catch up with old friends!
And we cannot forget our annual pilgrimage to Albury for a visit with Matt & Vanessa who took us out for a day of music in the vineyards at the annual “Day On The Green” where we partied with some classic Aussie bands. A little too much, considering the slow start to Sunday. Abigail was showing off her newfound skill of walking and babbling, and she's as cute as ever.
We are excited to be headed off to India and all that a new country has to offer. We've been told that we will either love it or hate it. Which will it be?
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Good ol' VB... oh how I miss it. :D
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