Anzac Day in Melbourne

Yes, it's me again. Well Easter has passed once more, the excuse to over indulge in Chocolate gone for now, well until next year.
Anzac Day, the following week gave us all a nice run of 4 day weeks, before we had to face the reality of no more Public Holidays until June.

Of course Anzac Day is far more than just a Public Holiday. We did think about going to the Dawn Service at the Shrine but when I woke at 5am it was just too warm to venture out into the cold morning. It is something we must do, especially now as we are so close. From our balcony we were able to see the march going along St Kilda Rd and we had the perfect position to watch the planes as they passed overhead to perform their flyby over the Shrine, Bill was able to get some good photo's of some of them. They are certainly a challenge though as they come from behind us and go past so quickly.

We did however make it to that other Anzac Day institution, the Essendon vs Collinwood game at the MCG. The grounds had been transformed from the centrepiece of the Commonwealth Games back to the now magnificent stadium that is the MCG. The transformation had taken every day since the games ended and was finished only a few nights before the big event. The Ceremony before the game was very moving and the Last Post played in the middle of the ground with 92,000 people in the stands was just amazing, that and the National Anthem with the Australian Flag was spinetingling. We were at the game with friends, 3 of whom were mad Collingwood supporters and another who was with Bill & I cheering Essendon on. Sadly we were not the victors on the day. Well, there's always next time.

The weekend before we had taken a drive up to Bright, staying overnight, to see Autumn in all it's spectacular colour. It certainly was worth the trip. Bright is a lovely town about 3 hours drive from Melbourne near Mt Hotham, Mt Buffalo & Falls Creek so as you can imagine it is quite chilly, which in turn is perfect for the wonderful trees to showcase autumn to perfection. On the way home, in Milawa, we came across a familiar name, Brown Bros, so of course we had to stop, sample, have lunch and of course buy some of the lovely wine to bring home.

So on that note I must leave you all

until next time...........