Checked out of the Hotel and drove back to Melbourne and then flew back home

Ran a course today in Aulbury

Lovely city , freindly people bit chilly !

Today ran a course for the lovely people at tooma station and then drove to Aulbury

Today we went to Mount Koziosko

it was lovely up there but very cold

Today we drove to Tumbarumba
lovely town , had some lunch then chilled out and had a queit day

Full budgets today went ok , off to Tumbarumba tomorow .. been told it may snow !

Ran the Getting started today and then went to meet pam Kreig in Young

It was extreemly cold in young

Ran a demo for 2 potential users and then had dinner  with Pam and her husband as well as one of the couples

got home about 11pm

at least the power in the hotel was working but it was still cold

Still cold .. this morning ran a workshop for some local accountants

finished about 11ish then Brendan drove to Harden , Via Rutherglen ( The victorian answer to margret river) and then on the hume highway passed gundagai

we arrived at Gurugrara (Half way between Jurigon and harden) at about 4pm and then set up the workshop room the facilty was very nice

it was very cold today and we lost power at about 8pm so no heater or electric blanked and brendan and i nearly froze !

Last day in melbourne today , still cold but no rain

Checked out of the hostel and left my bags there to come back latter and went for a walk ans some bfast


after a walk and breakfast collected  my bags and went to the airport to meet Brendan

picked up the hire car and the gear and headed off to yarrawonga , had a fairly uneventfull drive and appart from being incredibly cold it is a rather nice spot

So another cold but nice day in Melbourne

I got up and went for a walk and discovered that the cioty really doesnt wake up untill 10 am on a sunday , a bit more civilised than in perth !

So after finding some caffine i went for a walk around the docklands stadiunm , its huge !

AFter that i went for a sticky beak in DFO , a shoping center just for clothing .. didnt buy much but might go back tomorow for some thermals !

Its bloody cold this side of the country at this time of year !!


Sp here I am  in melbourne and as the saying goes , when in rome ...

So i went to an AFL game ..

It was quite an experience .. I think Melbourne people love the game first and their team second i think they have a real passion for the sport

I was in the pocket ( Just near the goals) and because i was on my own i got a really good seat

It was an essendon home game so there was a sea of red and black bombers fans and 2 small pockets of Crows (Adeilaide) fans

Some of the young men from adielade had pig masks or a pig nose and ears on , obviously a dig at the Swine flu and how prevelant it is in Victora

Apparently some young ladies said they had been told they where not allowed to go back to classes at uni if they had been to melbournes and felt ill ...


After the game i went for a walk around the city

Forcast today was for rain but woke up to a lovely day

Walked down to flinders st trainin station and grabed a coffe and a musli slice before catching the train to watsonia on the Hurtsbridge line

a gair uneventful train journey and i met up with brian at the station

It was versy cold and i was regreting not diging my gloves out of my suitcase

Went to Brians place in the Plenty river valley , lovely spot

Met Drake the snake  ( hes lovely and very freindly ) then went for a walk down the valley ( mind the steep hill !)

Then we headed of to Heasville sanctuary witch was about an hours drive away

lovely countryside , windy roads and we ended up on the edge if the yarra valley wine region


Heasvile was very cook , basicly a Zoo for Australian natives

Saw a platapus ( smaller than i thought)  wather rat ( bigger than i though .. very cute tho) and did the raptor and parrot demos

got my head skimed by a very large Wegetail in the bird show .. i closed my eyes .. she was coming right for me .. eep .. magnificent birds tho

Id recomend it for any animal lovers .. great day out

Brian droped me off at hurtsville and i caught the train home .. it was dark at 5pm !

got back to the city ath about 6:30 and went for a walk and then it finaly started to drissle so i went back to my accomadation , and found a reasonaly cheep japanese on the way back

had some dinner and then got back to the hostel

As i was organsing my stuff a young lass was trying to get a room but they where full they sent her to their other branch witch is a tram ride away so i gave her my metcard as i was done for the night

Left Perth at 3:30 arrived in melbourhe at 9pm

long que at the sky bus caught it at 10pm

Got to spencer st station ( southern cross) and found out where to go ( Thanks to Travelers Aid !)

as i walked out a sea of Bulldogs fans where leaving the Ethiad as the game had just finished so i blebeded in woth the crowd as they where in a good mood . dogs won .. i dint ask by homw much

A 10 min walk latter and i was at my Accomoadation , room is small but warm , the New YHA is very nice

went downstairs to check out the bar and had a cuppa green tea and a small snack and then went to bed

Today is one of thos rare times when you go and see a medical specailsit and they DONT tell you off !!

I have lost 700g and 1cm off my waist im now officaly intow a lower risc bracket that iw was when i last went to see the Dietican !!

Woot !

Cant have an edible reward so think i might go to the body shop and buy some nice bath stuff 

Low GI diet FTW !!
 
Not looking forward to tomorwo tho .. i have to see the Dentist :(

Owch this molar bloody hurts !

Swancon is over for another year ! :(

This was my 14th Swancon and every year is fun :)

In all the cons I've been to only a handful have been for the guest, the rest have been to see the people I dont see except at swancons !

Have to say that Rob Shearman was a delight to meet !
Ken Mcleod was really nice ( as was his lovely wife) and Glenda Larke was also cool.

It was lovely to see Zara Baxter again ! ( a deserving Fan Guest)

Always a pleasure to Have DUFF delegates, They where great :)

Some great panels this year, and what i saw of the masquerade was kinda neat!

As always the highlight of my con is hugging all my friends I don't see otherwise !