Mt Buller

Anthony has a rental car for work for a couple of weeks, so we decided we should take advantage of it this last weekend and go somewhere out of the city. Given that it is winter, we thought we would head to the snow.

The closest mountain (and ski park) to Melbourne is Mt Buller - about 3 hours away. As you can see from the pictures below, it was super foggy and we couldn’t see more than about five feet in front of us!

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

We walked around the shops in the “village” to get warm and we saw this Prada beanie. Can you see the price on this?? It’s outrageous! $240 for a hat! We didn’t even know Prada made hats…crazy!

We had fun tubing in the snow! We rode up the chair lift to the tubing hill and felt like kids again! Here’s an “action” shot :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even though it was really foggy, the views from the chair lift were still beautiful.

Our 4th Anniversary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four years ago, on July 9th, Anthony and I said “I do”.  In some ways we can’t believe how fast the time has flown by, but on the other hand, it’s hard to remember what life was like before we knew each other. It’s been an incredible 4 years. We moved from Vancouver to Sacramento to Melbourne. We’ve changed apartments, cars, churches….left family and friends and made new friends. Through it all, Anthony and I have grown closer together and have enjoyed the journey. We look forward to all the Lord has in store for us in the future.

These are the beautiful flowers Anthony gave me:

Our anniversary was on a Thursday this year, so we decided to celebrate the following Saturday. We started out the day at The Pancake Parlour. We’d heard good things and we were not disappointed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, we perused through the book fair at Federation Square. We both ended up with about three books!

Federation Square had an art gallery that we’ve never been to, so we decided to look around while we were there. It was probably the best art gallery we’ve been to yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we decided to head to the library, but we found that it was sinking into the ground! Just kidding of course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our last stop before dinner was Borders. It’s one of our favourite bookstores in the States, but we haven’t been there since we moved here. There were still a couple books we were looking for, so we spent a bit of time here. We walked out with a few more books. We now have reading material to last us for quite a while!

We ended our day at BlueFire Restaurant. It’s on the waterfront in the Docklands, a suburb next to ours. The restaurant was pretty unique in that it was “all-you-can-eat”. We haven’t seen that since moving here. The waiters would bring out large metal skewers with barramundi, calamari, lamb, steak, pork and chicken. They would keep coming to our table until we turned over our card to indicate we were done. The meal also came with appetizers and dessert. It was too much food, but a really good meal.

We had a great day celebrating our four years of marriage. We look forward to many, many more.