January Highlights

Been a bit slack with the blog but due to the public outrage from readers (one person said 'Where was our blog?' - thanks EK) so  have decided to summarise January in a few sentences and a million photos.  We had a wonderful Christmas in Melbourne, caught up with a few friends but mainly with family. The kids loved playing with their cousins and we enjoyed great weather. We had to say farewell to Pomonal but were consoled by the fact there is a new country property in the family at Drysdale. Matt and I had to head back to work and the kids continued their fun holiday with the family going to wildlife parks and walks on the beach and hot springs and pirate shows and bonfires in the paddock and pedicures and so much more. Thanks to all for the fun times.

Since returning Matt and I have been to a comedy night, Changi War Museum and with the kids we have seen Titanic exhibition, Narnia Exhibition and Wicked. Kids have now started back at school.  There's afterschool activities to organise, orthodontist appointments etc, Matt and I are both busy at work but somehow we manage to juggle things between us... mostly - probably something to do with the fact we have help. 

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.