Correction

It's still summer here in Berwick! So it was the summer fair. Woke up thinking I made a mistake with the title and sure enough my brother knew it too.
My Aussie friends, please feel free to let me know if my facts are inaccurate.
Tossed and turned with fever, runny nose and sore throat. Memories of Tokyo. Will load up on drugs, vitamins and juice to go 'full on' this week. Caught 9:25 pm train home...so white night was not the reason for the cold. Must be 425 pairs of germy big and little hands.
Norm's back is100%... thank God! Rest, swimming and exercising have helped.
Way to go Canada!!! Another gold!!!
Aussies, hockey is our footy!

Port Melbourne/Little Italy/White Night Melbourne

Berwick Autumn Fair

I think concession is seniors...we don't qualify because we don't have Australian papers but we are of age. Fun morning.

Urban Camp with the Grade 6 Graduating Class

Wrote a huge entry about thwonderful excursion but the blog site froze while saving and  I couldn't access the entry.
I will try to remember all the details.
120 children.
12 teachers, parents and aids
So well organized.
Trams, trains, escalators, platforms...
Keeping the children safe at all times
Days from 7am -11:00pm
Explored Melbourne independently with my 9 beautiful students
Kids met Costa, celebrating gardener in Australia. Filmed and will be on Melbourne website.
Dinner with camp cook Nazi
Tour of Etihad stadium...of footy games and concerts
Amazing race - check points around Melbourne - challenges - Tim Tams covered in vegemite.
Won most creative photo
 7/9 of group keen, 2/9 th dragging.
We still had fun!
Fish Dinner at Port Melbourne.
Swimming at MCAS...state of the art aquatic centre
Melbourne zoo
Many firsts...liked vegemite, drank Milo, Discovered Port Melbourne, wave pool, water slide and water obstacle course! :-)
Loved working with staff, parents and kids
Pleasantly exhausted!
It took me an hour to write the last entry full of anecdotes and detail. This is a abbreviated version.
Miss you sooo much my family and friends in Canada!
Enjoying getting to know my new Aussie friends.

A busy week!!!

We loved having our Lisa and Tyler with us for a few days and and ventured out onto the Great Ocean Road. Now it was Norm's turn to drive and he was the best driver on the curves on the left side. He manoeuvered those curves and hills with first officer Tyler as navigator . The journey was just as enjoyable as the destination . We stopped along the way in Lorne, a quaint yet funky little resort town ; and at every vista along the way to take photos. We stopped for lunch in Apollo which had many tourist buses and very expensive prices . we finally arrived at our destination in Port Campbell to see the many limestone structures stately standing in the ocean. A few of them are called the 12 apostles but only eight remain as some of them have crumbled to the sea. Others were called  Loch Ard and London Bridge. That evening, in hopes of seeing penguins come out of the ocean to the shore we camped out at London Bridge to watch them come in. We we're the only ones there until a cute Chinese family joined us. We were worried that we may be waiting there unnecessarily but the tracks of penguins on the sand as well as a sign that said Penguin colony gave us hope. We waited in the cold, okay it wasn't that cold for almost 2 hours. we needed to wait for about half an hour after sunset. Lisa and Tyler's eyes are much younger than ours and they were able to spot them right away. I expected giant Disney like penguins to come out of the water but they were very tiny and waddled very quickly to hide under the rocks below us.  There is an island called Phillips Island within an hour's drive and we may go visit there another time to see them again. I wish lisa and Tyler could be with us for the next visit.
The cottage that Norm booked in Port Campbell was perfect for the four of us. we could've fit all of our family and all of Ramzi's in that comfortable cottage. We we're told that from the cottage balcony we might be able to spot kangaroos in the wild but no such luck. we have yet to see our first live kangaroo in the wild we did see one on the road ...roadkill.
On our way home we visited the official site of the 12 apostles on a very windy day. it added to the fun and excitement . We took the less scenic road home and found ourselves on a foodie drive. We stopped in a chocolate factory Australian style and a cheese farm.
It was hard to say goodbye to Lisa and Tyler the next morning. We had so much fun with them! They headed up to Sydney and then to the outback and Uluru.
Norm took all three of us to the Berwick train station as I was heading out with my class for the great six graduating class Urban Camp in Melbourne .

Photos - the sites around Port Campbell and the foodie drive home.