We flew to Melbourne on Saturday morning the weekend before last. Andrew’s parents collected us from the airport, took us back to their place in Greensborough and gave us a car to use for the weekend! We drove over to Brighton to catch up with Kate and the kids, and to meet Morgan for the first time. Kate’s parents gave us lunch and we had a lovely time. We dropped in to see my grandmother (Oma) on the way back to Greensborough to tell her that (all going well) she’ll become a great grandmother in about 6 months, and she was so happy that she had to ring both my uncle (who lives a couple of blocks from her) and her sister (who lives in Austria). My parents were visiting Oma’s sister to help celebrate her 90th birthday, so at least they got to find out that the scan had gone well.
We had dinner that night with Andrew’s parents at a Japanese restaurant in Greensborough. The food was absolutely delicious, and I think Andrew’s dad was quite surprised at how much he enjoyed his meal.
Sunday morning we went up in the balloon, had brekkie and drove back to Andrew’s parent’s place for a snooze. Then we went to the city to meet up with Janis and go to the Pixar exhibition which was a bit of fun. We then wandered around the city, bought some chocolates at Coco Black (very yummy chocolate) and wandered along the Yarra River to the bells. Unfortunately they didn’t chime at 5 pm as the sign said they would, so after waiting for 15 minutes in the cold to hear them chime, we decided it was time to call it a day and Janis went home while Andrew and I went to find somewhere to have dinner.
After dinner we stopped to visit Tricia who was staying at her boyfriend’s house, so we got to meet the new man in her life. He seems very nice and I think it’s wonderful that Trish has someone in her life who makes her so happy.
Monday I did the experiment that I had come to Melbourne to do, and got Andrew to help out. We had lunch at one of Andrew’s favourite restaurants, picked Andrew’s mum up from work and got dropped off at the airport. It was a really busy weekend!
