Well, time has gotten by slipping away faster than sand through a sieve! But, here's the lastest updates over the past week. On Tuesday 13, all of us (excluding Dad) flew to Melbourne from Launceston. The flight was only an hour, so it didn't take long to get to Melbourne. We caught the Skybus from the airport to Southern Cross railway station, where I thought it was great seeing all the trams and trains go by! Julia, Dad's cousin, kindly met us at the station, before we caught the train to Auburn station. Upon arriving at Juila's house, we met Mr Matt, Callum and Dylan, Juila's nephews. It was Dylan's thrid to birthday, so we celebrated with a cake for dessert.
A surprise awaited us the next morning, when Dad arrived, earlier than we expected from the ferry. It had been terrific sailing weather, said Dad. We had breakfast with Julia and then we drove to the Crystal Brook caravan park in Doncaster and had a pretty quiet day. We did go for a drive to a park at Eltham. It had a good playground and a train line just near by, much to my approval! The following day, we went to lunch with Dad's Uncle Alistair and Auntie Michelle. They kindly prepared a wounderful lunch of soup, lasagne and cake to follow. After that, we went to the ground for modern art in Hiedelburg. The art was interesting, says Mum, but I didn't find extremely benificial!!
We packed up the caravan the next day, and, leaving the caravan back at the caravan park, went to Healsville wildlife sancuary. We saw a reptile show, birds of prey show, and even though we didn't get to see them in Tassie, we saw the platypus and Tassie Devils, all of which were interesting. We came back to caravan park, picked up the van, and crawled through traffic, as thick as custard, on the freeway to Mr and Mrs McSwiggins in Gisborne. Their boys, Angus and Liam, were great fun.
On Saturday we went to see Angus and Liam play Aus Kick at the local oval. Daddy kicked the football for us too and we had fun. After that we took a walk around Gisborne and went to a great playground, it had three flying foxes, one small, one medium and one high one, it was great so we could all have a go at once!
This evening Daddy and Josie and I went to the football, it was Collingwood and Hawthorn and it was good to be at the MCG to feel what it was like to be in a big crowd, 67,000, but the game was a bit of a fizzer as Collingwood won by 50 points. We got home late 11pm
Jerome has gone to bed, so Kathryn writes;
Today (Sunday) was a warm day in Melbourne, 27, but we are enjoying the sunshine while we can. It is lovely up here in Gisborne and the sunrise this morning was a spectacular aray of pink, orange and yellow spread across the expansive sky - awesome!
We took a drive to Bulla Hill Miniture railway and we took up all seven seats on the little steam train that was going around! It was a nice afternoon outing to see some of the countryside too. On our way back we visited Joe and Jill Westlake in Sunbury and caught up with them and Ben and Lisa and little Milly (Geoff's family) as well. It was great to see them and be welcomed so warmly and its a blessing to know we have family all around the place - even extended family!
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