Lord of the Flies

Monday, December 19, 2005

Happy Anniversary!

Today we were up early for a shuttle at 7:40 am. We travelled up through the Dandenongs blue forest where we stopped for some billy tea. While there, we fed the birds, some atoos, rosellas and a few other birds. That was quite interesting and a lot of fun. We were then back on the bus. We stopped in a small town to ride their steam train, the Puffing Billy, it was fun but kind of boring compared to the other train that we had ridden in Kuranda. Once the 30 minute train ride was over we were back on the bus again.

We stopped at Fergusson's winery for lunch, wonderful food. They had an actual spit roast with the best roast beef that I have had, next to mom's. We then went down to sample a few wines and then back on the bus again. This time we headed Healesville Animal Sanctuary where we saw a lot of native Australian animals, including the platypus, they are so cute but so much smaller than I had ever expected. This is where we were attacked by thousands of flies. They say there is on average 110,000 flies to every 1 person but they are in a swarm right now and it is closer to 150,000 for every person. Drives me crazy!

Once back on the bus we headed back to the hotel. We got back to the hotel and headed back into downtown. It is about a 10 minute walk, at least, just to get to the edge of town. We walked through town to the Yarra River where we enjoyed a very nice dinner at the Waterfront where I had a grouper that was larger than my plate, too much for me to eat but it was delicious. We then had some hot chocolate and headed back to the hotel.

When we arrived back at the room they had put a bottle of wine in our room for our anniversary. It was very thoughtful. At that point it was back to bed.

Tami