I love you Birdie

Seems like we’ve been back home for a century already, and really we’ve only been back as long as we were gone. It’s been a fun last few weeks. My sweetie had a dozen very long-stemmed roses delivered to my work with a teddy bear, rose oil, chocolates, and perfume…. I swear I’m so spoilt. It was a nice surprise and out of the 60 some odd people that work in our office, I was the only one to get flowers. It was cool, all the girls wanted to come see me open the box. Lovely as always, my Birdie, he remembers that I love flowers. I’d have to say that I’m I’m very lucky to have a husband that loves me and treats me so well. I think many times in our lives we take for grantite what we have and don’t realize the importance until it’s gone. It’s definitely due to my Dad that I like flowers so much, he used to love to garden and grow all arrays of flowers and beautiful plants. I try to do the same here in Melbourne. Rod has a green thumb and loves to grow peppers (as my father did), and other veges for our meals. Thank you my loving husband, you made me feel so special this Valentines Day. Oh! And he took me for dinner at our favourite restaurant Indochine, this great little Vietnamese place we love to frequent.

YARRA VALLEY GRAPE GRAZING FESTIVAL

Our friend Dawn (American/Australian Citizen) who has lived here for 10 years planned a day at the Yarra Valley Grape Grazing Festival for her Hens Day (which is similar to a Bachelorette Party). Dawn went to my high school and last year some of my family in Grass Valley saw her engagement announcement in the Grass Valley newspaper. Of course, I called her right up and recruited her into our “American group”. Dawn, myself, Heather, Dawns sister, and her school friend Janie were members of the Grape Grazing group all graduates of Nevada Union! Weird. Also joining us was my houseguest Claudia (a visiting friend-of-a-friend of my brother) from Boston. All of us “American girls” and a long-time Australian friend of Dawn’s, Brooke, grouped up for this long hot day of wine tasting.It was hella hot, we were all dying out there in the sun, luckily we did get a little shade. There were live bands, many selections of wine and champagne, a wonderful lunch and more heat. I think I was suffering from heat exhaustion… one thing about Australia is that it get’s damn hot here, and its a dry hot.

EASTER CAMPOUT! We are looking forward to our upcoming camping extravaganza over the long Easter weekend holiday. We are all heading up to Briagalong again and we’re bringing several other couples/families with us for our second annual “Campout!” We’re looking forward as always to sharing our pictures from this trip with you on the blog and we hope to have some good campfire stories to tell!

EXCITING BLOGGING NEWS In the coming months there will be some changes to the blog. You will be notified if you are on my mailing list, and I will be posting a link on this “archive” blog to my Shiney New Blog. It’s fantastic to think of all the new things I will be able to bring to my blog! Birdie and I will be podcasting weekly with news and goings-on around Melbourne and in our lives, and we hope you can listen in! Check back soon for more details as the new site is already under construction!

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Mental Status: Depressed, saddened, and hurting for a couple of friends/loved ones in need at the moment. My prayers and thoughts are with you to stay strong.
Song: A Womans Worth - Alicia Keys
Favourite Thing Today: Birdie is making me Curry Chicken tonight! Yummo, my fav!
Favourite Thing this Week: Looking forward to my first weekend with no plans since we’ve been home from our holiday… Law and Order marathon, woo hoo!