Melbourne Holidays: Day three

Monday 26 January

Australia Day

Today we drove to the Yarra valley. 

We stopped at Healesville for morning tea.

Then we went to do some wine tasting

at the Tarra Warra estate.

We also went to visit the art gallery next to the wine tasting.

entry to the art gallery

We went and have lunch in Marysville.

Marysville was the centre od the devastating Black

Saturday bush-fires in 2009.

After lunch we went to visit Bruno's

art and sculptures garden.

Since the 7th February 2009 fires, Bruno has rebouilt

his home and gallery.

The garden has blossomed into a new stage of life,

most of his terracotta life size sculptures have

been restored.

Bruno (what a character)

Peter O' Tools

a new sculpture being made

In the garden

this is his model

on our way back we traveled through 

very tall forest.

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Stuck in the lift

Sunday 25 January

Well I am all for creating memories

but this is going a bit far.

After the tennis we had time to shower

and change for our buffet dinner at the motel.

On our way back in the lift we got stuck between 2 floors.

We rang the lift company who were sending someone,

but they were far away and it was starting 

to be uncomfortably hot.

One of the men told John ( who was on the

outside keeping our morale up,

not that it was down, we were having an 

adventure)

He told him to ring the fire brigade.

In the meantime I SMS Shane, got an answer,do you need help, 

and don't panic then SMS

that it was hot and that firemen were coming.

Then I must have press the wrong recipient

and send it to Jo who was having drinks at a friend place

and did not know

about me being stuck in the lift.

suddenly, I got a message from her:

"what hot firemen?"

I had some explaining to do once I was out.

3 fire engines came. In a few minute the firemen had

opened the doors, drop down a bench

we climb on the bench and they were 

there to lift us out.

I got up as Jenny wanted to sit and there was no room.

a selfie, I am getting there!!

the fire engines

The next day we made the news

"10 people stuck in a lift"

Day two

Sunday 25 January

After breakfast, John drop us at the 

Queen Victoria market were we bought some fruits

 and a few stuff for our picnic lunch.

As we are going to the tennis and we remember

the long queue for food from last year.

Day seven of the

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Round 4

We have ticket for the Rod Laver arena

My friend Kaye also had ticket for that 

day and as I knew her seat number, I look her.

I found her with my binocular and went to say hello.

2 empty seats, a couple and then Kaye

(somebody is seating in front of her.)

I joined the club....I am trying to take selfie!!!

First game

Eugenie Bouchard from Canada

her noisy supporters

Irina-Camelia Begu from Roumania

sunshade over Eugenie

second game

women's single round 4

Maria Sharapova from Russia

Shuai Peng from China

Third game

Men's singles round 4

Kevin Anderson from South Africa

Rafael Nadal from Spain

We spent a lovely day at the tennis.

John was there to pick us up at the end of the tournament.

We had champagne (in the coach) on the way back to our motel.

Melbourne Holidays: Day one

Saturday 24 January

We flew Virgin to Melbourne.

We thought that they did not feed us

but we had a coffee and a sandwich.

John was at the airport to pick us off.

We went for an exploration drive and lunch,

then we were drop off at Federation square for free time

to explore.

Federation square with the big screen to watch the tennis.

view of the Arts Centre

Hammer Hall with octopus tentacle coming out the windows

Arts centre and Hamer Hall

behind the Yarra

the Yarra

Collaroy

Wednesday 21 January

Claude is a bit depress, so I took him to the 

Collaroy Beach Club for lunch.

( I had a "buy one get one free lunch)

We had lunch on the deck, very peaceful.

Yes, we had a chicken Caesar salad

we stayed on for a while finishing our coffee 

and looking at the work being done on the beach

Then we went for a little walk to the top of the cliff

and discovered another beach

At the beach

Sunday 18 January

Amelia was doing nippers this morning.

I did not take photos of the event.

After the nippers,

Amelia collected treasure on the beach,

Jo and Mykaela were reading in the 

shade of their beach umbrella

Shane playing with Joshua.

Lunch at the Boathouse

Thursday 15 January

We had to go to Warriewood K mart in our

search for a case to put my new mobile.

From the brochure, we thought they

had one....

As it was lunch time, we decided to drive to

Palm Beach and have lunch at the Boathouse.

They were not filming today, Summer Bay.

The sea plane was there, I have never been in one of these.

We parked the car in a no paying zone and had

to walk, but we often do the walk as it is very pleasant.

The Boathouse, it is always full. 

I had to be on the look out for a table

while Claude queued up to order.

We had the Boathouse salad,

Claude with chicken and me with smoke trout.

It was not worth the $7 extra to have the chicken or trout.

from this photo we cannot see the lovely view we had.