Opportunities To See Beautiful Places

We've done the rainforests, waterfalls, fishing and eating out, we have really enjoyed ourselves and we are heading back home today.  We have all had fun on our little holiday. There are so many beautiful places to see, it's great that we have the opportunity to see them and for that I am grateful.
Steph

Great Meals

Tonight we decided to get all dressed up and go out for dinner. We caught a taxi into town expecting to have a couple of drinks and a great meal. We started off at the pub and was greatly dissapointed at the menu which lacked vegetarian options and so headed to the Fisherman's club. Here they also lacked vegetarian options but we opted to stay and I chose a prawn and scallop mornay (I'm a Pescatarian mainly for this reason). It turned out to be as bland as bland could be and I of course was very dissatisfied. Do they teach chefs to actually cook vegetarian meals or is it plain and simply meat and only meat they learn about. In this day and age where there are more vegetarians and health conscious individuals who don't necessarily want battered fish just because there wasn't any other options, other than steak or chicken Parma. I'm grateful that I can cook and that if from now on we decided that we are not going to eat out, then we still have the option of enjoying a great tasting meal created by moi.
Steph

Ensuite Powered Site

We are at Eden camping and on checking in decided on an ensuite powered site. How good is this, we don't have to share with anyone and it's close. It's going to be hard to not get one next time. I'm glad Dave suggested it.
Steph

Scruff

It's Thursday already and time is flying by. Today we had to make an extremely hard decision, one which we have pondered over for quite some time but couldn't bring ourselves to do. We had to say goodbye to our gorgeous dog Scruff. Scruff had suffered a stroke a few months back and we think he had suffered a second one not long ago. He went from not too bad to worse. He couldn't walk straight, banging into things and holding himself up against furniture, walls, your leg and anything that would do the job. His head was turned sideways and in the last few days had become tired, sleeping a lot in the day and he couldn't get himself up quick enough to go to the toilet. The decision was so hard to make as he was the happiest dog I have ever known. He wagged his tail when you spoke to him or paid him attention of any kind. He was just so happy and he didn't seem in any pain, other than when he banged into things of course. We buried him on our block where we will be living soon, under a gum tree so that in Summer he can be shaded from the harsh sun and in Winter from the pouring rain. He can look up and see the leaves glisten either from the sunlight or from the rain drops. I am grateful to have owned such a happy, gorgeous and so full of life dog, who would give anything for a little attention, he loved it. Goodbye Scruff, we will miss you dearly, thank you for the eleven years of friendship, I'm sure there won't be another like you.
Steph

Info Online

Day 38 of our Metung transformation.......and the roof frame is up. Looking good and I can see where the attic/art studio will be.

Tonight we were getting our passport forms organised when we realised that I may need a registered copy of my marriage certificate so I had to go online and pay another $28.00 for it and I also have to send off certified copies of documents which I will have to do tomorrow. Zoe and I had our passport photos taken today and I thought that from here on it would be straight forward but of course nothing is in this household. Frustrating, I can't stand filling in forms especially when you have to attach other documents to them. Hopefully Dave's, Zoe's and Alex's will be all done by next Tuesday when they have their interviews at Australia Post. I will have to wait for my registered marriage certificate to come first. And hopefully Dave's will pass through quickly as he has to renew his British passport which takes 4-6 weeks. I did keep telling him to get on to it, but as usual he wasn't listening.

Not sure what to be grateful for today as it has been a rather ordinary day.....not much excitement really, rather more frustrating if anything. I suppose I should be grateful for information via Internet, otherwise I may have had to go back and forth to the Post office, as it would be highly likely we'd forget or misread something or other.
Steph

My attic/art studio

Roof frame is up

Quality Time Spent With My Dear Friend

Last night I was having way too much of a good time to stop and blog as I was with my very dear friend Megan. Russell, her hubby was kind enough to drive us to a favourite Thai restaurant where we sat and ate great Thai food, drank great wine and talked about just about everything. Unfortunately we don't see each other often enough and therefore when we do see each other we have far too much to talk about which leaves me a little frustrated and with an unfinished business type of feeling. I did jokingly suggest we each make a list so that we can mark off the things we have completely finished saying, it might not be such a bad idea. It's amazing how we skip from one topic to the other and it's only when we are apart that I realise I hadn't finished telling her something. Quality time is what we do have especially when we don't have kids or hubbies around, this lets us talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk...........without distractions other than ourselves. Can't wait for our next session.
Steph

Shopaholic I Am Not

Today we went to Sth Melbourne Market and then to Westfield Shopping Centre in Airport West. We did lots of walking and shopping. But, I am really glad and I think Zoe and Dave are glad as well, that I am not a shopaholic, therefore I rarely do the full day shopping thing like we did today. It was good to get some new things though. Steph