A Christmas Tradition

We are heading off to Melbourne tonight, looking forward to a few weeks of summer with family and friends.  Following what has become our Christmas tradition, we started the day with the Bertram Family Christmas gift giving, with Lucinda and I being surprised by the girls who had spent their entire pocket money at a gift store around the corner to buy us Christmas gifts.  It was very lovely.  After pancakes for breakfast, the girls tried out their new snorkeling gear in the pool.  The pool was a bit cool on account of the deluges of rain we've been having recently - on Sunday and Monday it basically did not stop raining for 24 hours.  We then got ourselves dressed up and headed to Goodwood Park hotel to enjoy English Afternoon Tea at L'Espresso Cafe.  We enjoyed a wide variety of foods in pleasant surrounds.  Now we are in time filling mode, before heading to the airport in about an hours time.  See you soon!

Cinderella Goes to MBS

It's been a very busy couple of months and we are all ready for our Christmas break.  I have been travelling, Lucinda has been publishing a magazine and the girls have been finishing another school year.  That's not to mention all the end of year events that have been going on.

The biggest highlight has been the Avondale Grammar School production of Cinderella and Rockerfella, with Act 1 featuring Felicity as Cinderella and Alice as Dan Deeny, Rockerfella's agent.  The girls put on an amazing performance and just looked wonderful.  The whole production was fantastic with great singing and dancing involving almost the entire school.  I was very lucky that my work conference that week was in Singapore and I didn't miss out on the show!

As a presenter and part of the organising team for our sales kickoff event, I managed to get a room at Marina Bay Sands (MBS), which is Singapore's iconic integrated resort featuring 3 towers joined by a sky park.  The girls came over for a swim in the sky park pool, 57 floors up and looking out at the Singapore skyline.  Watching day turn to night (was cloudy, so no actual sunset to speak of) and the lights come on was spectacular.