A week with Joey & Carrie

This past week Katy's brother Joey and sister-in-law Carrie have been out here visiting us. We did a lot of things and had such a good time with them! We got to see some amazing sights and do things we have wanted to do since we got here last year. They took off yesterday and it was very sad to see them go. We wished they could have stayed at least another week or maybe even another month! Its definitely a week we won't forget and hope they won't as well.

Each day we were very busy and seemed to have little down time, but it was nice as we got to do many things.

Sunday (day they got here)-Showed them around our place, hid and found Easter baskets, colored Easter eggs (Joey brought over a Easter egg coloring kit as they do not have those here-the eggs here are brown not white), had Easter dinner (Kangaroo roast, squash, sweet potatoes, potatoes, broccoli, cheese sauce, and rolls), and in the evening around sunset went for a walk around Lake Lilydale.

Monday - Katy's Birthday! Exchanged money and went shopping (couldn't do this on Sunday as all the stores and banks were closed for Easter) and drove down to Phillip Island. Can read more about this day in an earlier post.

Tuesday - We went into the city. In the morning we went to the Queen Victoria Market and got souvenirs, then for lunch we went over to St. Kilda (the place we had lunch at, the Beachcomber, was right next to the beach over looking Port Phillip Bay/the ocean). Then we headed to the Skydeck. Skydeck is 88 stories up, it is the highest viewing platform in the Southern Hemisphere with 360 degree viewing of the city of Melbourne. It was amazing to get to see the views of the city from up so high!

-us at Beachcomber

(view from Skydeck)

(us at Skydeck)

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Wednesday - Winery tour at Domaine Chandon, my basketball game at night, then a birhtday party for Katy and Quincy at night (where Joey and Carrie tried Vegemite)

(us very excited at the winery)

(trying Vegemite)

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Thursday - Went to Healseville Sanctuary, saw some of the bushfire area, did the 1,000 steps and went to Skyhigh for dinner.

(very tired after doing the 1,000 steps)

(us at Skyhigh)

Friday - Great Ocean Road - Stopped at the Surf shops in Torquay, Erskine Falls, Camping at Bimbi Park

Saturday - Surf lesson, Footy Game (St. Kilda vs. Freemantle) at Etihad Stadium, and Ice Bar

(surf lesson)

(St. Kilda vs. Freemantle)

(Ice Bar)

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Sunday - Joey and Carrie flew out

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