Happy Easter!!!
Louise and I went to Melbourne for the week end. The purpose for the trip was to get away and have some fun, and go shopping at COSCO wholesale.
We drove and drove through a very beautiful and for a change in 50 year ( I have been told), a green Australian out back. We started on Wednesday afternoon and got as far as Gundagai, where we stayed at the Budget Motel, in a purple clean room, charing the facilities with 100 truckies, we felt safe and slept like babies.
The next morning was glorious with sun and mist on the ground, the Coppers having "brekkie" at McDonald as one does! Especially if you are with Weight Watchers, as we are.
Whops! Hope Kate won't read this .
The countryside offered rolling green hills and a wast landscape you only find in Australia, the road was straight as an arrow for hours, and we were ahead of every one!
We stopped of in Aulbury for a quick pit stop, coffee and Dan Murphy's for some wine for the week end.
Aulbury turned out to be a beautiful little town with plenty of golf courses and good shopping.
The landscape did not change much as we drove towards Melbourne, but it was a feast for the eye to just let is slide by outside the car window.
Louise had bought a new Car, white with large windows LOL and a built in navigator !
Great we thought and left the Tom- Tom at home, big mistake !!!
As we approched Melbourne in the late afternoon, we wanted to go by COSCO to check it out before the Easter Friday close down. So we put in the Docklands and the street adress, the navigator took us to, God know where........ we eventually got there, more by default than with navigation help.
Finally we entered the world of huge shopping carts and free sample food. We joined as members, was photographed and printed out with little white memeber cards with our faces on them.
We could not resist the seafood counter and bought our dinner, giant Alaskan crab legs and oysters. Louise wanted Mayo, she found Hellman's real mayo in a 5 kg jar !!!
She had to buy it :)
Louise have carried that jar with her as her Teddy bear, in and out at every hotel room on this trip.
You see the Jar and then you see Louise !!
We checked everything out at COSCO and decided to come back on Saturday before we were due to drive back.
Just as a tip, if you ever go out of State with your navigation system, make sure it changes from one State to another. We learned the hard way!!
We left COSCO around 6 pm and thought we headed towards the hotel in Melbourne East. Wrong!
We were still driving back and forth at 9pm calling the poor man at the hotel asking for directions. He asked us " where are you?" We had no idea. We stopped and tried to ask at a petrol sation, The "moron" refused to tell us if we did not buy a $30 map. I do not want to tell you what we said.
We called the hotel again as we now knew where we were, the guy told us, Take a left on to Hunt road and then another left on to commonwealth road and then a right to , well it was not Hunt road but Punt road...... Oh dear we went around the stadium again and decided it has to be Punt and not Hunt, and did the exercise one more time and finally arrived at 9 pm. We logged the food and Mayo jar upstairs, as we had the top floor with no lift !! Yippie. So good to move the legs after having sitting for so long :)
We had a lovely dinner and some well deserved wine, before passed out.
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