Beginning of October

Last week we had Brett & Angela with us visiting, and they had some great adventures and a taste of the varying weather here in Melbourne. We had beautiful weather last weekend and rode Puffing Billy, an old train, through some beautiful countryside on Saturday and drove through the Dandenong hills in the afternoon. On Sunday we drove out to Healesville to check out a large craft market that was happening there that day and visited the animals at the Healesville Sanctuary in the afternoon. It was the best taste of spring/summer weather that is just around the corner.

During the week, we saw this old ship from our balcony sail through the harbor. It was quite interesting to see the contrast of and old, beautiful ship with the new, fancy boats right next to one another.

I had another check-up this week, and all is going smoothly with baby. She continues to get bigger as fewer of my clothes are fitting. My parents are flying in today, and we're headed to Tasmania tomorrow to check the island out--it is supposedly similar to New Zealand and very pretty, though much smaller.