Wednesday, April 22, 2015

First School Break Day 14-Puffin Billy Day

I signed us up for a tour that included a ride on a steam train through the Dandelong mountains, tea and bid feeding in Sherwood Forest, and shopping in Sassafrass.

This meant that we needed to get up before 6am to get to the start of the tour.  It should be noted that the tour left from the CBD and then drove almost past the house were we were staying...nothing to be done about that since it was already booked!


The bird feeding was cool, but I was so glad that we had the opportunity to do it with b yesterday.  The birds on our tour are a bit too used to humans, and none of us enjoyed having the cockatoos quite so close.

The train ride was exceptional!!  BigC loved seeing how the station looked, he says it looks like it was original and he likes that he can picture how it must have looked when it was still in use.  He loved looking at the old train, especially the pistons when the train was in motion.

He has kept his ticket in with his bag of precious things.  It was a pretty big deal for him.



We returned to the CBD and rode the trams for a while, visited a Porshe dealership

 And headed to The Portland Hotel which contains the James Squire Brewery and Dave sampled a flight of their offerings. 
We then headed back to where we are staying.  I originally typed "we returned home".  The word "home" is one that I use pretty loosely these days.  Right now "home" is where our suitcases are.

Here is Monkey asleep with the resident assistance dog in training.  This dog is just sweet, sweet, sweet.

Some things happen when you travel for two weeks and live out of bags.  We wore the same items every few days and I never wore most of the shorts and tanks that I packed.  We just kept washing and wearing the same cooler weather items.  We lost the tweezers early on. Bangs and big sunglasses hide a multitude of sins, let me tell you!  It would have only been necessary to pack about half of what we brought, but how we were to know.

Wanda got a eucalyptus oil enema today.  It has improved the conditions considerably.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Who is Wanda and what did she do to deserve a eucalyptus oil enema?

Saje said...
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Saje said...

Wanda is the car. She STINKS.

Unknown said...

Now it all makes sense... :-)