30th April Phillip Island

We had a pretty bad nights sleep at our couch surf in Melbourne with a slanted futon mattress meaning we were both on slants all night! This was less than desirable but we were so tired it seemed to do the trick. We had no bread for breakfast so headed out nice an early. In the rain. This was the start of a great day! (Feeling slightly reminiscent of new york here?)
We set off and stopped for petrol which ended up being a stop for breakfast. The golden arches bought us in for sausage and egg mcmuffins & hash browns of course!!

After this slight detour we carried on our 80k journey to Phillip Island. Laura spotted a westpac and we made another little detour to transfer some good old english money into our ozzie accounts for our special treat on Thursday! (More about that later!) Finally we arrived at the Island and our luck was in the clouds had started to break! With that we popped into the tourist information center picked a few bits up and were on our way! First stop on Lauras agenda was a chocolate factory! 

Chocolate Penguins

Tuesday 29th Drive to Melbourne!

Another blog already you may be thinking? Well you lucky folks get more to read this week! 

An eager start for us today up and out by 8:30 ready to go! We are staying with a couple from Melbourne in Noble Park who we are looking forward to meeting!

Our satnav said we would make beautiful time arriving at 3:45. We knew this wouldn't be the case but it's nice to know it's possible! We planned to do a few stops just to swap driving between us as it is such a long way. To give you an idea it's the same distance between home and Brisbane to home and Melbourne! It took us how many weeks to do that? The difference here is it's not the east coast and there isn't a lot in-between! Nothing but farms and fishing villages really. Because of this we have opted for the highway route. We followed the same route we took to Canberra except this time we stayed on the same road. After this point this is what our satnav said..

Monday 28th April!

Hello everybody we are still here! A little news update..

Last Thursday Deb and Ian left for Japan, South Korea and China until the 11th of May where we will meet them at Ayres Rock. We are left in charge of the garden, fish and the house in this period. During the last week we have had a bit of a relax due to another long weekend for us for Anzac Day. Anzac Day is like remembrance day for Aussies. We had a weekend full of fixing proton rally cars and renault clios.

Easter Sunday 20th April

Happy Easter everybody!
We have had a busy 4 day bank holiday weekend so far,
Good friday was spent working for us Myles with Ian cutting up steel and Laura doing accounting work and learning more about website building.
After this was dinner and being good Friday no meat was allowed so it was a fish dinner!

Saturday another great day, Laura spent the day with Deb & her mother at the Sydney Easter Show.
Its a huge show with a funfair, showbag hall [ a huge room full of promotional bags?!] animals shows and general allsorts! It was great fun! I saw lots of ducks and chooks (chickens to you English folk) but no big hanging meat car uses because that upsets the modern day Aussies (wimps) for an agriculture show I thought that was a bit sad. But otherwise it was HUGE and very good fun. 

General update/ we are still alive post - Tuesday 8th April

Today is a work day. As we haven't spilled the beans on work of late we thought we should give you a little update. 

We are working for Think Software. We are learning how Ian's buisness and software works and what it is capable of.

To start with Ian wanted to see more of Laura's creative side so we were set the task of making a cartoon advertisement & demo for the website.

This is all fine and dandy very cute etc. This went down so well with clients we made a second for a new business venture to do with car parts:

Again same format seems to be going great. 

So onto bigger stuff! 

Myles is in charge of photographing one of Australia's biggest nurseries & biggest rose developer, Swanes. 

Aren't these guys beautiful? Wish we could bring some home they are just phenomenal in size, colour and smell!

This is an ongoing process alongside with making Ian's other website beautiful ready for release. Laura got as far as her knowledge would take her and realised the need to know HTML and CSS were upon her. 10 minutes finding an app and she was off. Aaron Ian's son and programmer set us up and we were off! So far Laura knows the basics of HTML and can read some code! This is all good progress but will be and is a steep learning curve! Here's what today's screen looked like:

With this will hopefully bring new change to the blog or a new blog entirely! So that's pretty exciting..

So that's us at the moment! 

We haven't heard from any of you except Kate Grandma and Mark so we assume you are all dead. Therefore no comments no need to write blogs! We feel like we are talking to ourselves a little! It would be great to figure out who is still reading! 

Update 2, over Easter we will be heading to Melbourne finally! This may be by plane, car, motorbike or train! We haven't decided yet and will let you know! 

Lots of love xxx