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reynardo's reward points from work for a getaway in wine country in Victoria last weekend. However, although Rey had called the hotel in question back in January and set a date then, they had managed to forget about this and book themselves out with a wedding instead. Bit annoying, but not really much we could do about it (and considering the weather, perhaps it's just as well). So we spent the weekend in Melbourne instead.
Got to the combined birthday party on Friday night; the food was rather nice, and not overly reliant on onion. Saturday we had pancakes withusekh and then headed up into the Dandenongs with brandtotter and silverblue to visit the Funk. As usual, we stopped by Gepetto's Workshop and failed to escape empty-handed; I picked up a very neat spider hand-puppet, somewhere in between cute and creepy, which kept poking legs out of any bag we put it in. Stopped by again at the Snooty Fox; they had duck with chilli and chocolate sauce, which was delicious.
Sunday, we went to a Wesleyan service to enjoy the singing of17catherines and shadow_5tails, and then on to the annual guide dog show where we met up with my brother, his partner, and her dad. It was fun but rather overcrowded; every puppy had a tight-packed ball of people around it, and between the crowds and the rain the grounds were turning into a morass. Caught the first half of a pub concert and then we had to drive back to the airport.
As usual, did not manage to catch up with nearly enough people. But I'm sure we'll be back down in the not-too-distant future.
reynardo's reward points from work for a getaway in wine country in Victoria last weekend. However, although Rey had called the hotel in question back in January and set a date then, they had managed to forget about this and book themselves out with a wedding instead. Bit annoying, but not really much we could do about it (and considering the weather, perhaps it's just as well). So we spent the weekend in Melbourne instead. Got to the combined birthday party on Friday night; the food was rather nice, and not overly reliant on onion. Saturday we had pancakes with
usekh and then headed up into the Dandenongs with brandtotter and silverblue to visit the Funk. As usual, we stopped by Gepetto's Workshop and failed to escape empty-handed; I picked up a very neat spider hand-puppet, somewhere in between cute and creepy, which kept poking legs out of any bag we put it in. Stopped by again at the Snooty Fox; they had duck with chilli and chocolate sauce, which was delicious. Sunday, we went to a Wesleyan service to enjoy the singing of
17catherines and shadow_5tails, and then on to the annual guide dog show where we met up with my brother, his partner, and her dad. It was fun but rather overcrowded; every puppy had a tight-packed ball of people around it, and between the crowds and the rain the grounds were turning into a morass. Caught the first half of a pub concert and then we had to drive back to the airport.As usual, did not manage to catch up with nearly enough people. But I'm sure we'll be back down in the not-too-distant future.
