Hello everyone,
We hope you had a wonderful Easter! We spent
our long 4 day weekend in a beautiful little town called Anglesea that is
located on the Great Ocean Road; 1.5hrs from Melbourne. We spent the weekend
with 5 lovely people and celebrated Easter Canadian/ Aussie style. I’ll quickly
introduce the group and the dynamics so you can follow along. We met Mhairi
(CAN) and Scott (AUS) through the Canadian Club we joined. Mhairi is childhood friends with Todd (CAN)
who spent theirs summers at a lake in Ontario. Todd met Jenna (AUS) when they
were working together in Whistler and moved back to Melbourne. Chelsea (AUS) is
Jenna’s childhood friend and coincidentally is also a Nurse at the Royal
Melbourne Children’s Hospital I work at.
We rented a beautiful 4 bedroom house that was a 10 minute
walk to the beach. The weather was a little cool over the weekend so we weren’t
able to get into swim. We spent the weekend taking beautiful long walks, enjoying
some of the sights such as the Airey’s Inlet Lighthouse and indulging in some
Canadian comfort foods! Since there were 4 Canadians and 3 Aussies we decided
to educate them on Canadian cuisine. The first night consisted of Beer Can
Chicken with Swiss Chalet dipping sauce. Neal and I presented the group with
Frank’s Red Buffalo wings with blue cheese dip (a delicacy you really have to
look for in Melbourne) and was accompanied with Caesars that we were able to
make thanks to the USA food store stocking Clamato. There were plenty of
pancakes, bacon & maple syrup to start the days. We also managed to teach
the group Drinking Jenga.
On Saturday we made our way to Bells Beach to check out the
RipCurl International Surf Competition. It was ladies day and we got to see
some incredible surfing on fantastic waves. It was the first surf competition
that Neal and I had ever seen and it was awesome!
What a great way to celebrate Easter!
All the Best,
Laura & Neal
