Melbourne, & Mornington - Why not?

Well, in true Tinkler style, we clocked up a lazy 790km this weekend visiting Nathan & Kate in Melbourne and Tarn, Craig and little Jake in Mornington!

Geography lesson... Check!

The forecast had Melbourne receiving it's months average of rain in one day but fortunately for us in turned out a little drier than that. But it was a true Melbourne day, we can say we saw the 4 seasons alright with Sun, Hail, Wind and Rain! But that didn't stop us doing the Myer window thing...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This year's theme is "How Santa Really Works" and it was the first time James and I had been to the window which is an annual highlight for Melbournians.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The first window was the Christmas College for Elves...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . With a Job Expo to show the diversity of careers available to Elves...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Next window... Letters Department

They had a letter displayed saying...

Dear Santa,

May please can I have a robot that cleans my room?

I'm wondering if this is one of my letters that never made it to Santa? In that case I think I might forge one in James' hand so that robot arrives in about 10 years!

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production... They were working hard!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And what a chaotic way to manage the Storage...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How great would one of these be???



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Then on to Dispatch...


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Look at all of these very FULL sacks!!!! Which one is coming our way????


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And finally... Transport

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Where Santa was training up for the long flight...

After the Myer window, we played Tenpin Bowls on the 3rd floor of Melbourne Central Shopping Centre.

James with Kate - he loved cuddling up to Kate - Wally wasn't worried though!!!

Here's James with Wally!

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And having his first ever bowl (it was a gutter ball hehehe!!!)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt wanted me to put this up for everyone to see. If you look hard you'll see I was winning after the first 4 bowls (my first bowl was a strike and my next 2 were spares). I had the others worried at that stage but don't worry - I lost well and truly from that point on!!!

We went back to Wally and Kate's and had a quiet night watching the movie 'Deception'. Not a bad movie with Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams... Had a good couple of twists without being too scary!

Sunday morning we headed down to Mornington to see our good friends Tarn & Craig and to meet their new little boy Jake (8 weeks old!!!)

James is at a stage where he is fascinated with other babies and children and just wants to touch (scratch and grab!) them. Jake's a happy little boy who is in a very good paddock so he'll give James a run for his money in a year or so's time!!!

Here I am - not behind the camera for a change! - with baby Jake!

After lunch and an icecream with Tarn & Craig (who somehow managed to avoid the camera???) we jumped in the car and headed home.

Another weekend done!