COLONIAL TRAM CAR RESTAURANT

Last night to celebrate Phil's birthday we used the voucher Mel gave me for my birthday and had dinner on the ColonialTram Car Restaurant. We had a lovely time travelling through South Melbourne to StKilda and then back to the City. Our meal was excellent and the wine/champers were good. If you have never been I would thoroughly recommend it as a pleasant way to spend the evening.

PARTY TIME

SUPER HERO'S PARTY

Last night we celebrated Monique's 13th birthday at a Super Hero's party at the Willows. We all had a great night and the birthday girl certainly enjoyed her party. As you can see we all got into the spirit of the night and dressed accordingly. Happy birthday for the 12th Monique.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL

HAPPY 55TH BIRTHDAY

We spent a lovely evening at the Melton Golf Club tonight having a quiet dinner to celebrate Phil's birthday. With Monique's big 13th birthday party happening on Saturday night we will celebrate with the family then. Will post photos later from the big dress up party.

HAPPINESS IS??

WORKING ON THE EH
As our driver was in the truck and I've been working, Phil has been able to spend several days working on the old girl as he calls her. She now has new disc brakes and some body work done. Although a slow process she is slowly coming back to her former self and then she will be ready for a visit to the spray painter. Then he will start on the interior - red leather seats are very expensive.

GO SAINTS

Round 17 and we are still undefeated. What a great match against the Bulldogs last night. With two keys players missing we still played our attacking brand of football. With 5 games to go we may be lucky and manage to go the whole season undefeated.

JERSEY BOYS

OH WHAT A NIGHT
On Wednesday night Phil, Trish and yours truly went to see Jersey Boys. We had a great night, the show was fabulous, the performers were very good and the music was out of this world. The Four Seasons is one of my favourite groups and it was great to sit and listen to the story of their lives and listen to their fantastic music. Our seats were 8 rows from the stage so we were able to see the cast up close and to see how hard they were working. The cast got a standing ovation at the end of the show. Trish bought both of the cd's so we played the Four Seasons all the way back home in the car. The other cd was of the stage show so will get to hear that when she has finished listening to it.

FAMILY HISTORY

I have been researching into the Trish & Byron's family history on their fathers side and yesterday (Saturday) Phil and I went to Bendigo to the library to do some more research into the Dodd/Cardwell families. It was a quite successfull day, adding some more information about the Dodd family to my collection and discovering that the family had ties with the town of Chewton and were miners. We now have other family names to add to the list, i.e. the Morrison's, Campbell's who married into the Dodd family. We also went to the Benidgo cemetary where Phil's mother is buried and also where the kids great grandmother Irene Cardwell has family is buried. We found the grave for her parents and brother. Her brother Richard died in Frances in the first world war.
Chewton is a lovely little town about 10 kilometres from Castlemaine. They have a farmers market every Saturday, so in the next few weeks we will make a return visit, they also have a family history section in their town hall which is open on weekends so will visit that as well.