Port Fairy

We arrived in Port Fairy on Saturday 6th of December. It was great to see Ryan and Kirstyn after 10 months and we certainly had lots to catch up on. Sunday they had their staff christmas party at home-it was fun to be there for that.

Monday, we went to Warrnambool to do a bit of shopping and catch up with neighbour David (and our mail), Tuesday, Kirstyn was off work with a tooth ache which she's since had a temporary filling put in and Deb and Pete came from Portland for lunch so another very social day.

Wednesday we went down to my sister's in Traralgon and visited Kobie and Verity at her parent's house. It amazed us to see how much Kobie has changed in the few months since we saw him last-I guess that's what babies do. Verity already had a couple of trials at various hairdressers in Traralgon, so that's good. Dan and his mate Taz left Perth on the Monday in the car with a fair amount of furniture in a trailer and arrived in Traralgon on Wedenesday too. We caught up with them on Thursday. On Thursday arvo, Russ and I went around to see an old friend of mine Chris-it was amazing to see her after about 7 years!!!!

Friday night we had Dan, Verity, Taz, nephew and niece-in law (Marcus and Fiona) and kids over for a BBQ.

Saturday we drove to Melbourne to stay a few days with Blair and Leah. We had dinner at Woody and Sophie's on Saturday night after a few drinks with Dan and Taz (Dan's Brazillian kitchen hand) at a pub where Mick works near here. Caught up with Barbs and Pip as well, so it was a bit of a reunion.

Sunday we were having Mick and his girlfriend Hayley over for dinner so Russ, Leah and I walked over to the South Melbourne markets to do our bit of shopping for the meal. The markets are great and so convienient for Leah. They really live in a great area-our car has only left its parking spot once in the few days we've been here! I was pretty proud of myself spotting an old friend of Blair's at the market. Leah didn't know him and Russ was having trouble recognising him after about 7 years. He and his wife Suz had just land4ed from London two hours before we met them. They came for dinner too.

Yesterday (Monday) Blair flew out to work in Tasmania leaving Leah, Russ and I home alone for a couple of quiet days before Holly turns up from Geelong for the night with us. We left Leah working and took Mick out for lunch, then drove over to see Mick's house and the new Bunnings store he's working at. Last night we had a quiet night and delicious soy braised chicken salad with Leah.