A WONDERFUL WEEK AWAY

 BORDERS ARE OPEN, 80% of victoria is double vaxed and i jumped on a plane and flew to melbourne.

FIRST NIGHT - a quiet one, an afternoon at sunny's with no one home, time to catch up on the laptop using a good wifi after iinet stuffed mine up.  I had a meal with thornton in smith st, good to see him face to face after a couple of. years of Words with Friends :0).   Lots of walking today and a tram trip.  small things but lovely to be out without a mask.

SECOND DAY -  I headed off to the nova and saw a very scary great-looking film called The Night House.  sunny, luke and etta returned from warburton and we had a lovely family evening of dinner at home.

DAY THREE  i caught the train to geelong and dear sean picked me up from the station.  a lazy afternoon and pizza for tea. 

DAY FOUR.  susan and i had a long walk thru the botanical gardens and down around eastern beach in perfect warm weather.  we had lunch at the wharf shed with the sparkling bay spread out before us 

then i headed over to denise's to have dinner at the elephant castle with jenny  d and denise.  stayed at denise's

DAY FIVE     denise and i had brekky and went to a couple of op shops in the morning then gail picked me up to go over to her place at torquay.   We got together with jenny and freddie and anne and dennis there for drinks then they left and we had a quiet night of fish'n'chips and telly.   after a walk around the garden of course

DAY SIX      Sunny, Luke and Etta came down in the morning and we all headed off to the beach.  stormy weather was expected but we escaped it whilst enjoying the gathering thunderclouds and fabulous colour of the sea beneath it.

Susan came down on the bus, jenny and freddie came over too, and Ian and Sean came later.  it was a great day, we all headed back to gail's and basically just watched etta going thru her range of tricks :0).   

I drove back to Coburg with Sunny and Luke to stay on my last night.    We had a leisurely brekky and there was plenty of time to just be with sunny, luke and etta before they drove me to the airport for a 3.45 flight.  

  peter picked me up and i got from their house, home by 6.   what a week!   things dovetailed together with friends and family picking me up and dropping me off.   walking with sunny and etta in the pram was a delight and time spent with friends in small groups was perfect, time to talk.   weather was good too, tropical humidity but little rain.

i've come home feeling so 'fed' with all that time in company of people i love.   so glad i went and today - a big fat lazy day enjoying home, the garden and the river.