Our weekend away

Henri, continues his adventures within Australia

 My dear cousin got married last weekend, down in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Rhys and I were so excited to receive an invite! However the venue did not allow for paediatric guests. So after a couple of months of umming and ahhing, should we go? yes. Can we take Imogen to Melbourne? How will we travel? Who will babysit? Will we take time off work? We ended up deciding on leaving Imogen in Brisbane in the care of my mum in our house, and only going down for one night, leaving just enough time to go to the wedding and come home again!

A chance to relax and chill out

 On the way to the airport I honestly felt sick, anyone who knows us or followed our travel blog (travellingwithhenari@blogspot.com) knows that we love to travel, we spent days in the air last year and I never felt ill once. Getting on the plane heading away from Imogen I felt sick. I had to stare up at the ceiling for a while, in an effort to prevent throwing up. And in the end I didn't throw up. I think I only started to relax when we were in the hire car heading from the airport to the yarra valley, via Resevoir (because it turns out that the western freeway, northern freeway and metropolitan freeway are all the same bloody freeway).

At the wedding

We stayed at a local vineyard with a lovely view (top photo). It was just so nice and quiet. I had a nice long soak in the tub and went to the wedding with NO vomit or dribble or poopies on my dress! We had a lovely time at the wedding and managed to phone Imogen at the perfect time to say good night.
The next morning we had a massive breakfast at the hotel, had another soak in the massive tub, went on a scenic drive and stopped at a winery for some wine tasting (at 11am!)

I'm glad we went. My husband is my best friend and it was nice to have an opportunity to say hello and to discuss some things in detail without having our thoughts interrupted by little Miss. Our next trip? Adelaide! Next month!! And this time, Imogen will be coming too...