Thursday...5 May 2011

When it is moving day, we are not the ones who get up at 6.00am and be on the road by 6.05am. No we wake at whatever time we naturally awake, perhaps sometimes helped by outside noises, such as school buses being revved loudly before departing to carry the little terrorists to their place of education.
Then we prepare ourselves for the day and then eventually we make moves to pack and stack our gear ready for the days travel. Today after all the above and a quick trip up the road to check yet again yesterdays handywork at the cemetery and to refuel the car, we finally got on the road at lunchtime. Now this is not as bad as it sounds as we then travelled just on 100kms to Benalla and parked up at the one and only caravan park this town has.
We then spent the afternoon sitting in the sun watching the gliders being towed up to begin their graceful descent. Must have been a good day for thermals as we saw at least 15 tows. Perhaps Benalla has one of its many gliding competitions on. It is the gliding centre for Victoria.
Benalla is also famous for its rose festival. They grow seriously good roses in this town.
While I was not born here I was raised here so I am always pleased to return. It is interesting to see what has changed since my last visit.
About the time we gave up expecting visitors and poured our first drinks for happy hour, the folks arrived!!
Was lovely to see them and to be able to show them our caravan. All comments were positive, this is good. Had told them all about it and even showed them photos but the reality was apparently bigger and better than the original perceptions. And Aunty Jean (bless her) bought me a current copy of the local paper, very welcome gift. When I can I shall play catch up reading what has been making news around here. They also bought some home grown green beans. Most welcome. I put some into our dinner tonight.
Tomorrow we head toward Canberra. Apparently it was minus 3 there last night!!!!! Made the news as the coldest May night ever recorded in Canberra. Well I guess hell has frozen over after all.........