We departed Hobart around noon with pleasant blue skies and sunshine despite
the earlier frosty start to the day. Bryce kindly transported us to the airport
leaving poor Jacquie at home suffering from a terrible viral flu infection that had
kept her low for the past two days.
In contrast to the Hobart’s sunshine, on arrival in Melbourne we were greeted by
heavy rain and cold wintery conditions which persisted for much of the
remainder of the day.
We caught a taxi from Tullamarine to Marcus’s home in Preston and settled in
prior to heading off to do some supermarket shopping. This sortie was to seek
provisions to prepare a meal for Marcus, Deb and Elliott when they arrived home
from work.
We made a chicken and rice stir-fry meal with bacon, water-chestnuts, bamboo
shoots and other several other vegetable treats to add to the flavour.
When they arrived home we celebrated Marcus’s and Deb’s engagement with a
lovely bottle of (Tasmanian) Devil’s Corner pinot noir bubbly. The stir-fry was
scrumptious!!
After catching up on all the news and playing with Elliott we packed up and
prepared for an early start in the morning when we head for Hong Kong.
Jak playing with Elliott.
It is exciting to think that we’ll be staying with Bobbie tomorrow evening.