Life after Sydney break

Following a great trip to Sydney we both found ourselves away for work, near the end of the month. I went on my first trip up to the Yorke Peninsula, since the car accident in September 2011. It was fantastic to be back up there, seeing some great clients. I had an added bonus that the weather was around 30 c. Which meant that I may have taken a swim or two during my lunch break. 

 

 This is a bay near Port Victoria, where I found myself swimming with Pelicans.  

The following evening I found myself in Moonta Bay with a fantastic view of the sunset over the bay. 

 

On my way home from the Yorke Peninsula I came across some interesting views and experienced my first controlled burn off of farm land.

 

 

On return from the Yorke Peninsula and doing some gardening I realised that my hard work has been paying off.  It appears that with skills pick up from Granny (“everything enjoys a good cut back” ) I have rescued another plant in our garden. It’s the first time I have seen it flower. Still not sure what it is though. 

 

The first weekend of May we celebrated the fact that Eleanor (Jon and Liz’s daughter) has turned one and is how feeding herself. We also attended a fantastic house party to celebrate the fact that Lynne and Michael had moved in together. 

 

The second weekend in May we both had work to do. Sunday was our day off and we headed to the hills to enjoy the Autumn leafs, log fires and roasted chestnuts. We also found a fantastic little book shop in Stirling. 

After many late nights and busy weekends, the third weekend of May was Guide camp in the Adelaide Hills. What was special about this one was that it was the first one that I was organising. With some fantastic help and support from my leadership team at Guides. I think the camp was a great success and the girls enjoyed themselves, even though it rained for most of the weekend and they went home with very wet trainers.

Friday night I introduced them to my PGL experience and we played catch the flag, Giant, wizards, and Elves. We also did some team building games.

On Saturday we made camp gadgets,  cooked lunch on camp fires, learnt how to read a compass and had a camp fire. 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sunday it was Sandy’s birthday so we had a birthday party, completed an obstacle course called Challenge Hill and packed up camp. Mark also came to spent the morning with us. It was great to finally share my Guiding with him. 

 

 

This weekend we have been enjoying our wedding Annveristy, as Mark will be away with work on the day. We’ve had a great day driving round a very wet Clare Valley, tasting wine and having . lunch at Skillogalee winery. 

 

 

 

 

We even found ourselves driving on a road with a name we know well.