The Trip

So the trip, compressed.

We had an awesome time! Em enjoyed her cruise immensely, too. But our trip, condensed, with pictures.
We spent out first night in Eden. (Yes, really!) We arrived late on the Saturday night, but when we awoke on Sunday, we saw this awesome view from our balcony.

Lovely! We spent the next day driving to Melbourne. On the advice of a few twitterers, we stopped at Lakes Entrance for lunch. I spent some time conversing with some Black Swans.

I offered them a chip, and was almost attacked by seagulls. We hid in the car to eat, but when we were done, we tossed the last of our chips to the seagulls.

Mayhem. I don't think a single chip actually hit the water.

On Monday evening we drove out to Phillip Island to see the penguins. Awesome. Loved every minute of it, despite the fact that it was freezing. Freezing!
We went on the most expensive tour, the "Ultimate Tour" where they take you down to a private beach with night scopes in the dark, and you sit on the beach and watch the little penguins waddle in from the water and run off to their burrows. No photos, because it's dark and you don't want to upset the penguins, but it was wonderful, I highly recommend it!
We went off to the Melbourne Museum the next day to see the Tutankhamen exhibition, again highly recommended! No pictures again, but it's so awe inspiring to be standing amongst these breathtaking relics.
We left Melbourne on the Wednesday, and drove up to Warnambool via The Great Ocean Road.The road starts in Torquay near Bells Beach.

Freezing, I tell you.

I don't think that surfer is Bodhi, but I could be wrong. We stopped to see the Twelve Apostles.

It was cold. And windy. I had to hold my hat on so it didn't blow away.

London Bridge - now apparently known as London Arch, as the bridge fell back in 1990.

And the Grotto.

There was a little rain, a whole lot of wind and a great deal of cold, but the scenery is stunningly beautiful.

The next day we headed up to Bendigo. Along the way we saw a sign for Creswick Woollen Mills, so we popped in for a visit. Not much yarn, but there were these!

Not much yarn was the theme of the trip, really. I was a little surprised at my restraint! We hit Bendigo Woollen Mill as soon as we arrived in Bendigo on Thursday, and the Sheep and Wool Show on Friday morning, where a few lovelies tempted me.

Two lots of a Wool/Cotton 4ply (fingering weight) blend, one pick and one white and some blue baby yarn from the Bendigo Woollen Mill. A kilogram of gorgeous alpaca from Pear Tree Yarns (the colour isn't true - it's natural, with the faintest bit of pink through it), a zauberball, and some gorgeous pink wool/silk blend from ms.gusset. That's it!

We started for home that afternoon, spending Friday night in Albury and seeing Harry Potter before arriving home on Saturday.

Did I get any knitting done?

Apologies for such a dark picture, the knitting is dark grey and the sky is matching this week! But that's a front, a back and almost two sleeves.

So yes, there was plenty of knitting!