Amy and I headed down to Melbourne for her birthday again this year. We have done this a few times now and it is a good time to catch up with some of the family before Christmas as well. We flew down on the Friday morning, picked up our hire car and then headed out to the South Melbourne Markets. We stayed one night in the city at QT Melbourne which was very stylish!
This was our plane- it had propellers and was a lot smaller than the normal planes we fly on- it took and extra 30 minutes to get to Melbourne but we flew lower so we got good views as we flew down. Had to walk on the tarmac and both ends- plane not tall enough to reach the gates!
Christmas trees at Melboune airport while waiting for our luggage to come through.
This was our Mercedes Benz we had for the weekend, our hire car was supposed to be a small metro car but we got upgraded. It was a bit scary driving it at first, keyless, button for the handbrake and no gear stick for changing gears- had to have a few explanations, but it was a nice car to drive!
Saturday morning I went for a wander around the streets of Melbourne while Amy slept in, checked out the Myer Windows and all the Christmas decorations.
We left the city around 12 noon and headed out to visit my mum who still has a stall at the Ferntree Gully Market, spent a couple of hours there and helped her pack up. We then went back to her place and that night went out to dinner with some of the family at an Afghan restaurant in Dandenong, had a lovely meal then took some photos.
The girls- Ella, Pam, Leeanne, Amy, Sue and Filomena
All of the above including Michael and Kim on either end
Keiran, Ella and Amy
Mike, Keiran and Kim- the taking of this photo had us in hysterics, Filomena told Kim he needed to hold his stomach in like Michael was doing, then Kim just hamed it up, I must have grabbed this photo when he was being sensible!
Mum in the Mercedes she was most impressed!
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