Ocean Grove Weekend

This weekend I went down to my grandparents caravan down at Ocean Grove for 5 peaceful days, away from work and home!


Had a wonderful relaxing time and kept very busy.


Basically our itinerary was...



Friday

I had my RDO but Sean still had to work, so I dropped Sean off at work in the morning, returned home and cleaned the house, packed the car ect. Then in the afternoon I picked Sean up from work and we left from there. We stopped at KFC in Geelong for tea, and arrived at the caravan at Ocean Grove around 7ish.



Saturday

Saturday was more of a sight seeing day. We started out by going to Queenscliff and went for a walk along the main street browsing shops and galleries. We then had lunch at the View Grand in Queenscliff.



After Queenscliff we went to Point Lonsdale, Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads, before heading back into Ocean Grove for Dinner at a new little bar called Zebra Crossing, which was very nice. ($12 parmas every night Amanda!).



Sunday

It started raining when we were at Dinner on Saturday night. And it rained, and rained and rained all night and all Sunday morning. We had planned on going to Sorrento on the ferry today, but instead decided to go shopping at Torquay and Geelong. It was a really misserable day. We just had Maccas for lunch, then Smorgy's for dinner, which was really crap.

Monday
On Monday we got up early and caught the MV Queenscliff over to Sorrento for the day. Over there we walked around the shops, had lunch at some little pub that looked a little dodgy, but had really nice food.

We came back in the afternoon and had an ice cream at Queenscliff (you can not go there and not have an ice cream!) then fish 'n' chips for dinner.

Tuesday
We got up extra early Tuesday morning and headed off home by 8am. Just to be lazy so we didn't have to cook we also ended up going to my grandparents for dinner.

Well that was my lazy weekend...

School Reunion

Today I had a reunion at my old secondary school - Hillcrest. The school is closing down in December and being demolished. The school itself is being merged with three other secondary schools in the Broadmeadows region to create a multi campus college.

I bumped into some old school friends, and many of my old teachers - most of whom are still working at the school and have not changed a bit.

Today made me feel how lucky I have been and reflect on how comfortable I live. Despite complaining about a lot of things, some of my old class mates have it much worse. One girl for example now has three children, lives in a little apartment block in Broadmeadows with drug dealers living next door to her, who fling their used syringes into her backyard, meaning her backyard is pretty much off limits to her 3 kids. On top of that she works from early hours in the morning til late in the evening just to make ends meet. Her parents look after the kids for her during the day.

On Saturday I continued doing brickwork in my backyard which i started the previous week. I am over a 1/3 of the way done now, but the labor is certainly taking its toll on my poor body. My skin is so dried out, and my back and knees kill of an evening.

Last night Sean and myself were invited to our next door neighbours for drinks... it was a very nice civilised evening, and was the first real proper interaction we have managed to have with our neighbours since moving into the area.

This coming weekend we are going down to my grandparents caravan at Ocean Grove for the weekend. I have Friday as my RDO, and have taken Monday as annual leave, so it means I have 5 whole days off work! Over the past couple of weeks I have just really being looking forward to going away and just leaving all the stresses of home and work behind me. Life has just been moving so fast lately and I feel I have just been struggling to keep up with it. I'm really looking forward to actually just spending the weekend with Sean, and not worrying that I have to get this done, or have to get that done. The last couple of weeks have felt like Sean is just a stranger who lives in my house, and that all I do is say hello in passing, so it will be nice to spend time focusing on each other.

My Back!!!

Well I have had a very tiring weekend. On Saturday we had my grandparents come over with their car (which has a tow bar) and hired a trailer and removed the mounds of excess dirt and stuff from our backyard and took it down to the tip. This mean most of my day was spent digging, and be live me, my back certainly knew it the next day.

On Saturday night we went to my parents place for dinner (after a day of digging, plus starting to assemble our new barbecue later in the afternoon).

On Sunday I finished putting the barbie together in the morning, and then we went out for lunch with my grandparents to the Glenroy R.S.L. - Good old seniors meals, but actually rather nice. I had roast beef and vegies, then chocolate pavlova for desert.

Then Sunday night we went to Seans parents for dinner. So the weekend finished, and I don't feel like I have had any rest time at all this weekend.

Over the Melbourne Cup weekend we are going down to my grandparents caravan at Ocean Grove, so that should be nice and relaxing. It only 3 days, but I am sure I will feel recharged after that (though I do fear that if I suddenly go into relaxing mode I will come down sick)!

Weekend By The Sea

Sean and I spent this weekend down at my grandparents caravan at Ocean Grove. It was nice to get away from everything and just have time to chill out and relax. We went straight down on Friday evening, I had an RDO on Friday so I drove Sean to work in the morning, went and had my hair cut and did some other stuff, did a bit of Work at SirsiDynix in the afternoon, then picked Sean up and drove straight down from Seans Work.

On Saturday we went for a walk along the beach at Point Lonsdale, followed by a trip into Queenscliff to look at some of the local galleries for painting ideas for the house. We had lunch at the View Grand in Queenscliff. We then went to Drysdale, Clifton Springs, Port Arlington, then back to the Caravan before going back to Queenscliff to get some fish and chips for tea.

On Sunday we went for a walk along the beach in the morning, packed up our stuff then went to "the house" and my grandparents before going home.

I didn't have my camera with me so I have no house photos to share (thank god you are probably thinking!). All the electrical work is complete and I spoke to the builder on Thursday and he said that they are doing the plaster work this week, so I believe we will no longer have access to the inside from this week (bummer!).

I held my first training session at Brimbank last Thursday, it was staff training for Microsoft Outlook. It all went well, so hopefully this will carry through to some successful training sessions once the Sydenham Library opens in December.