The recent long weekend over the Easter break was fantastic. Tress, Kiddo and I had a good break and I do feel like I had a good clean break. I woke up on Tuesday morning feeling refreshed and happier than before the break.
On Thursday we went out to PP for dinner. The next day, after sleeping in a bit, we went for a drive to the Mornington Peninsula. I charged up the GPS the night before and early on Friday, I poked around with it to see where we could go in the peninsula. Even though I woke up just a bit after 6am, I still felt like I had slept in. I browsed the Melways and then randomly picked out Arthur’s Seat at the peninsula as a spot to visit.
We took off a bit after 9am, hit the Eastlink and drove up to the peninsula. We hit Dromana a bit under an hour later. At a toilet break, we picked out a spot for a maze adventure. It turned out that the “POI” in the GPS was also for the same place – the enchanted gardens or something like that, at Arthur’s Seat just off Dromana.
Kiddo was particularly excited about going into a maze. It turned out that the place had several mazes, including one made of corn tree – a maze’s maze, if you like.
We spent close to 2 hours there and then drove towards Mornington for lunch. We had wanted to go to the “Old Bank Café” but it was closed, so we ended up having fish and chips. We walked around the town for a bit after that before driving further along the esplanade. We wanted to stop again for coffee but couldn’t find a spot we were after.
We got home close to 5pm.
Later that night we had a Good Friday service in church. Steven was not well so some of us spent the whole night attending to him.
On Saturday kiddo had practice in church so I sent her there again. I brought along some bibles which we were going to give to baptism candidates, and left them in the office. After attending to some mail, I went home and went for a walk with Tress. We then went grocery shopping to cook for Easter Sunday lunch at church the next day. After picking kiddo up we went for brunch at Glen Waverly. It was some quickie yum cha after which we went to get some wine for Steven’s birthday party that night. We went back after that and Tress did her gardening while I did the vacuuming. Tress then did the cooking while Kiddo and I played some video games. She thrashed me of course, as usual.
Steven’s birthday party went really well that night. It went so well he actually walked out of the restaurant without paying! The matre de looked around to see who would foot the bill but hey, it was a 10 course meal for 7 tables so no one was in a hurry to volunteer to “pay first”. I think as I write this the bill still hasn’t been paid. Gotta learn this trick from Steven.
Because Kiddo was playing the keyboard, we went to church early on Sunday morning. We helped around with the water for the baptism tub, set up the tables for lunch and generally got busy. Church was full that morning and after I was done and wanted to join the service, I actually had to look for a seat – an unusual occurrence.
My mate had a big cookout later that arvo but I couldn’t go – had to play driver for a bit and then Tress was down with a bad headache. She went to bed to rest up and Kiddo and I took out an old DVD (Two Towers) and tried to outdo each other reciting lines. I think she won but only just.
We lazed around on Monday morning, Tress looked and felt much better – even cooked lunch. After lunch we dropped Kiddo off in church – again – a whole bunch of them were meeting up to go to the Planet Shakers’ concert in the city. It’s a 4 night thing and she’s staying over at a mate’s house each night, along with 6 other girls. Tress and I spent the first of 4 nights by ourselves. We had durian for dinner that first night. See the previous entry…