Guests and Visitors

We've had lots of people passing through Melbourne. Keep 'em coming I say. We have a lovely spare room and love to have guests.

Mom was our most recent guest. What a gorgeous time we had - that will have to be a whole post on it's own..













Our mates from NZ KG and Craig came by - we had a lovely time at the Windsor for high tea and they also took us on our first whirlwind tour of YUM CHA! What a weird and wonderful breakfast. That's a picture of Tim eating a duck's foot.. we were so proud of him..













Tim's mate from Wales spent a few days.. Justin. Sorry guys - we forgot to take pics - we ate out a few times.. the usual.

















Dan and his brother Jonny came to "work" in Melbourne. They seemed to spend a lot of time at the fancy Japanese restaurant Nobu. Not sure how much they worked.. we had some awesome times with them - lots of laughing as always.





Adi and Fra came for a very special visit.. Adi was about to POP. Little Pierre was taking up so much room Fra had to do her laces for her - very cute. We took them to our favourite little Melbourne haunt, Pellegrini's - it was Tuesday which is spinach and ricotta canneloni day - YUM. We also took them past our best ice-cream joint just after breakfast - but we still managed to eat one each. Tim was ever so elegant as usual (that's an ice-cream cone in there this time - not a duck bill - you never know with him - he'll eat anything off an animal). You can see how shocked he is to see the grafitti...




































































My Uncle John and cousin, Bindi came to Melbourne for footy and my cousin-in-law's 30th birthday bash. We took a lovely circular drive around the 2 peninsula's of Melbourne - the Mornington first, then the ferry across to Queenscliff, then along the Bellarine peninsula. Gorgeous trip. The beach at Portsea is my favourite one in Oz so far - stunning. We also took John to our ice cream spot - he was joking saying he wanted "red wine flavour" - lo and behold when we arrived - guess what he had to order! Red wine ice-cream... be careful what you wish for folks - even if in jest!













Our most rowdy guest of course is the larger-than-life-Markie Mark, all the way from London. He's so precious. We came home to find him with his feet dangling off the balcony and all the beers in the fridge consumed by 10am. But we had great fun with him.

Thanks for coming guys.

For the rest - get yourselves over..

Mount Buller

We did a kinda crazy one day adventure to the snow. All of this was only 225km from our house! Pretty gorgeous drive, sandwiches and tea packed - off we went to make sure we hadn't forgotten the basics of snowboarding we picked up in NZ. It's been two years since we had been on the snow. I was terrified.. but after half a day we were back to where we left off. Thankfully there were lots of beginners slopes open for me to get comfy on again.

Sadly on the way home I had the worst gastro and was seen by a whole school bus of kids puking on the side of the road. I now know all the toilets along the route. Each time we stopped Tim would have to buy something so I could use the facilities.. he's a good boyfriend!

Pink

What can I say? We went to see Pink at one of her 17 shows in Melbourne. Expecting little - we were blown away. She is a succulent, sexy, athletic woman with a kick-ass voice. For all of you non-believers out there - you should see the show before laughing at us!

Taste of Melbourne

We had a gorgeous night out at the Taste festival - stunning old building as the venue. Basically 15 of Melbourne's top restaurants put on 3 dishes to try. We also saw a few cooking demos and watched a chef interview. It's great fun - you pay with crowns - which is like monopoly money and it's easy to spend loads! We sampled lots of little yummy things (and wines of course). Timmo does enjoy the odd bit of yummy red wine these days. But the highlight of his night was the massive chocolate fountain of course!