Last weekend Ash and I planned a mini vacation to the Yarra Valley, the wine region of Victoria. Ash is doing a 5 week teaching placement right now so we left early Saturday morning and drove to the Yarra Valley. On the way we passed a dozen or so wineries all dotted along the highway. We went into Healesville one of the main towns in the Yarra Valley and had lunch at the Grand Hotel. We had enormous lunches, I had fish and chips and he had chicken parma- they were both unreal! We also had some really good wine to start our weekend off! Then we walked through the town, it was really cute - we looked at some shops and bakeries. We stopped at a cute little cafe for lattes and hot chocolate before heading up even further into wine country towards our Bed and Breakfast.
We drove through the woods up towards this mountain until we found the turn off for our B&B, Brentwood Guest Accommodations. When we turned in I was shocked at how beautiful it was. Up a steep driveway was a massive building. The B&B used to be a hotel that slept 64 which has now been turned into 4 beautiful self contained suites and the owners live on top. We were led to our suite and the view was magnificent. It overlooked the mountains and there were brightly coloured parrots at a bird feeder right outside our window. The inside of our suite was beautiful with a kitchen and beautiful wood table and leather couch, there was a partition and a large king size bed behind it and an attached beautiful bathroom. We had a nap and then decided to go into town. We went to a massive winery called Innocent Bystander/Giant Steps and we tasted a bunch of wines. I had a big list and I rated each wine individually. We loved the pink moscato it was SO good. Then we sat down for a glass of wine and a cheese platter. After this snack we went to this posh restaurant at The Healesville Hotel for dinner. We both had steak with truffles and oysters for an appy! On the way back to our B&B we stopped at the winery again and bought more wine and moscato!!! We finally made it back to our B&B and had our own wine party!
The next day we went to the visitor information center to find out some things to do. We went to a beautiful national park and trekked through the wildlife. Then we decided to head back to Carlton. The weekend was so much fun and I look forward to our next wine tasting adventure!! We're heading up to his parents place in 2 weekends and we're going wine tasting there, this time Ash can actually drink since he won't be driving!
Meanwhile, I got a job at the bakery next door to my house! Downside is I have to wake up at 6am tomorrow morning and work until 3:30!!! But oh well, I want to do too many things and need to make some money.
Anyway, the SAINTS made the finals and they just beat the number 1 ranked team so we have a shot at the GRAND FINAL!!! Which we placed 2nd last year so that's good news. Bad news, Reuben the big ass ram died at Ash's parents place - but I mean he did push me into the electric fence, what goes around comes around... haha no that's terrible.
Miss you all!!
xo
Sarah
