8 Feb 10 – Melbourne

By Lou: We headed to Melbourne via Yarrawonga to visit a family friend and had a nice catch up. We were only about 2 hours north of Wallan when we thought to ourselves we were a bit disorganised as we hadn’t allowed any time to catch up with old neighbours or Craig’s work colleagues. This whole ‘wing it’ approach to travel can have its downsides. And we felt that again when we finally got around to booking the ferry to Tasmania and discovered our time in Melbourne would have to be cut short as we needed to grab the last trailer allocation for the week or cut short our time in Tassie. Caught up with sister Nicki and family and a couple of friends which is always a sure way to fill my cup. For those we didn’t get to see I’m sorry! Hopefully next time. I tagged along with mum to a performance by Williamstown Little Theatre called RolePlay which was very funny and well performed. If Craig had known he was going to miss out on some table top dancing I’m sure he wouldn’t have stayed home.

By Sam: One day grandma took me to the Museum to see all the different things and we saw lots and lots of cool things and it was really fun and I liked the dinosaur fossils the best. And I liked how there was a screen and you pressed buttons and all these different pictures of animals came up. And I liked the bugs and all sorts of different things. We caught the bus, train and tram to get there and that was very fun.

By Craig: Well, no time for table top dancers, I was in the front end of my car up to my armpits. What I thought was a small grease leak ended up a complete re-fit of a front wheel drive shaft. Thankfully Tom from ProTorque in Moorabbin could squeeze us in as was able to fix the vehicle prior to our deadline for the ferry.