We went for a long drive to Swan Hill Wednesday last week. We have to leave early to catch the early sunrise. I was with my good friends Jonathan, Robert and Edgar. Too bad Aileen can't come coz she has to work. Anyway, I took this SONY laptop with me so I could start blogging. Thanks pala to Robert who set up my blogger/gmail account. This trip was sort of our last long drive with Robert before he leaves Melbourne. We have to stop by Bendigo to have breakfast. The first time I had Breakfast Benedict! I think I still prefer the traditional egg and bacon on toast...with tomato sauce! Anyway, off we go again. We had lunch at the Murray Downs Golf Club.We opted for the Aussie meal..Steak! Nicely cooked, well done! At the city centre, we have to pass by a local tattslotto outlet to try our luck for the saturday tattslotto. We shared a ticket and hope to try our luck and win the jackpot. Of course, cant leave the shop without asking..."Do you have a souvenir fridge magnet?". The fridge magnets they have wasn't flashy, but I have no choice but to get one with "Swan Hill" on it. I am an obsessed fridge magnet collector. Anyway, off we go again. I have to also try the digital camera I bought for Anthony from Ebay. Saved me $200 compared to if I have to buy it over at Sony Central. I bought him a 10.1 megapixel sony camera T300 series...touch screen, smile shutter and 3.5" lcd screen. Quite advanced.
Robert gave each one of us a copy of Damien Leith's album, "Catch the Wind". It became "the album" of our long drive to Swan Hill.
On our way back, we passed by Andrew Peace winery at Murray Valley for wine tasting. We met the owner George, quite hilarious kinda person. He gave me a really good deal with the crouchen reisling. I bought 5 boxes of 12 bottles per box for just $450. If I'm going to buy it in Melbourne, it would have cost me twice the price (I think!). I'm going to use that wine for the toast on my church wedding in December. Crouchen Reisling is a sweet variety of white wine which will be just perfect to the crowd at my wedding because majority of them are not wine drinkers anyway. Although I love the Brown Brothers brand or crouchen reisling, too bad I can't go and visit Milawa before December. Also, he even gave us a cap each and extra wine to take home with us. Good deal, wasn't it?
We had dinner at Bendigo, at the famous "CLOGS" pizza restaurant. I have to recommend it to my dear friends because it was my second time dining there. The first time was when Betchay (my previous housemate) and I went for a long drive in 2005. Of course, I didn't go for the gnocci which Betchay and I had before and we then decided to go for the Spaghetti Marinara and Pepperoni Pizza. YUM! Still unsatisfied, we had Banana Brulee' at the next door cafe.
It was a good trip. Funny how Robert saw this "full moon" and we couldn't take a photo of it... ('di nya mahabol...!) :-)
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