Just had the most wonderful "Holiday" for the weekend.
We meet up annually with a group of friends from our student days and this was the weekend, Sunday to be precise, at McCrae. I suggested that we make a weekend of it and spend the night down on the Mornington Peninsula and see the sights, eat out, walk the dog on the beach and just generally laze around.
Sister P & G voted it a good idea so we set off on Saturday. Not such good weather, but by the time we stopped for me to look around buy stamps, paper and a mag. in a paper arts supply shop in Mornington it was lunchtime.
"the rocks" On to the pier where we had a lovely "light" lunch at the yacht club. The restaurant and cafe are called "the rocks" and we sat in the deck area and watched the rain squalls beat down.
We met the owner of our beach house, had a coffee then explored the house. It is right on the beach and called Castaway
The living room windows look straight out to the channel where we watched a variety of shipping, including the dredge.
A walk along the foreshore and out onto the pier blew the cobwebs away and thrilled Pepper the dog, who had 4 of her favourite people to walk with and throw balls.
Back to a lazy cocktail hour or two and on to our dinner at the Fed-Up Fish Cafe in Rosebud West. Food was fantastic and very interesting. I had scallops thermidor (not a very adventurous choice but delicate and delicious) Following was a roast Barramundi fillet with red cabbage, kipfler potatoes and roasted tomato and mushroom garnish.
Other dishes were poached salmon with mussels, whole flounder , chilli prawns, Sardines with cheese crust, seafood chowder and kingfish. They all looked very tasty.
After playing Wild Thing on the Juke Box we tried our luck with the Flintstones theme song, but somehow I think the box had been rigged because we couldn't get it to play that song!! Happily for the other diners!!
Sunday we scurried around the Heronswood gardens between rain squalls and had a coffee in the thatched roof cafe. Must go back for lunch to sample the fresh from the ground vegie dishes.
P and I joined the Diggers Club, I had belonged a few years back and we bought some plants, mainly herbs for me.
On to our reunion, which was the usual talk fest and eat drink and be merry session which lasted till late in the day. It is a great treat to catch up with this group, even though we don't see each other all the time, when we do meet it is as if we had just left the last conversation. Nice to have friends like that.
Very dark and rainy trip back to p's for the night then returned to Geelong with trailor load of metal sculptures collected on our way home.
Our Mini Holiday was over - but what a great time we had.
