Mick and Hayley headed back to Melbourne around lunchtime Friday. She's a lovely girl who fitted in with the family really easily. By the sound of things, our families are quite similar in that we all love a drink.
The greyhounds were fun, then 20 of us went to the Warrnambool for dinner. It was lovely to see so many of Blair's mates and partners=some after many years. And as Blair and Chris have both worked at the pub, they were kind enough to leave us and a barman in the dining room after dinner instead of sending us back out amongst the hundred of people in the public bars.
On Saturday we drove to Portland to see Deb and Pete, Margaret and Deb's brother Murray who was on a quick visit from Brisbane. Lunch was a lovely (home made sausage rolls and a mango and avocado salad), then we headed back to Port Fairy and out to dinner at the Merrijig with Blair, Leah and another 3 couples. Dinner was pretty good too!
Sunday Russ and I spent a super lazy day doing nothing while those Ryan and Kirstyn worked and Blair and Leah went off to the races. We had planned to drive to Melbourne on the Sunday but were just too tired and changed the plan to Monday.
Leah suspected she had her foot broken by a friends wife pushing her into a pillar at "The Gal" one of Warrnambool's local nightclubs. As another friend commented "some people shouldn't drink on an empty head"!
Russ and I arrived home ahead of Blair and Leah and cooked a lovely steak topped with garlic prawns, baked potato and salad for us all.
Blair flew out on Tuesday morning, so Russ took Leah off to the doctor nd on to x-rays and yes, her foot is broken and may need a cast for 3 months. Her doctor is off until tomorrow and will decide then exactly what to do. Whatever he decides, it's difficult as their house is two stories with bedrooms and Leah's office up 17 extremely steep stairs!
Tuesday morning a Recipezaar friend Friedel and her husband Andrew arrived for the day. They are currently riding their pushbikes around the world with Australia and NZ the last legs of a journey that will take them almost three years. They have ridden 35,000 ks so far and are so happy and healthy looking. It's been an amazing trip so far and was great to get to meet them. I checked Friedel's recipes and reviews so knew she'd enjoy a dinner of prawns, chorizo and rice, a big salad and olive bread. They are very un-fussy, enthusiastic eaters (and have to be with all the ks they pedal every day). We sent them off to the Tassie ferry full of food and good wine-it was a wonderful day and reminds me yet again how good the recipe site has been to Russ and I over the 7 years I've been a member.
On Wednesday, we planned to drive on to Traralgon, but realised we couldn't go and leave Leah on her own with her broken foot-especially in the really painful early stages so we called Glenda and Dan and stayed on here and will get to Traralgon next week. Our change of plans meant we were able to have breakfast with Chief and Suz who headed home to London today, and dinner with Mick and Hayley before Hayley headed to work. We had a magnificent standing rib roast of beef, garlic chats, asparagus wrapped prosciutto, baked tomatoes and fennel and cumin carrots. What a feast for New Year's Eve. I did my most favourite dessert of fresh berries and cream to finish. I love the fact the berries are so cheap at the market-3 punnets of strawberries for $4, 2 punnets of blackberries for $4 and 2 punnets of raspberries at $3.49 each was more than enough for 5 greedy pigs.
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