Remember all those promises of frequent updates when we got internet at home? Yeah, we remember, too. The new excuse is, "There will be more frequent updates when we have wireless internet at home." This will give me some time to come up with a new reason for our poor showing at blog updates.
So, this is Nathan, and for this update, I want to share a little bit about our weekend away -- the first weekend that we have had free together to get out of town a little. We got a chance to spend some time in Margaret River, a sort of Napa Valley of Western Australia, and a great place to blow the diet.
We stayed at a B&B called Bewitched, whose proprietor was named (i'm not making this up), Samantha. They only have accomodation for one couple, so it was nice and cozy, and we ate roughly 8 squillion calories for breakfast every day. Which was nice.
We can still pass for tourists, especially when Kris wears that red hawaiian shirt that we picked up in New Zealand, so we felt okay about going on a canoe tour of the area. We felt even better when we found out that 18 of 23 were from Perth. We have now officially eaten Bush Tucker, from Tasmanian Pepper corns, to desert limes, to emu (Kris), and witchity grubs. Mmmmm. We even found out that there is an edible form of the ice plant, called a pig's face, or bain. Salty kiwi flavor, who knew?!
This last weekend was also a big international surf competition at Margaret River -- we got to see the women's finals and presentation of the trophy. Pretty cool, and something that we're not likely to get to see in Minnesota.
The rest of the weekend was spent in gastronomic bliss, doing wine tastings, cheese tastings, olive oil tastings, eating ocean trout and fennel, rhubarb brulee, and ending up having lavender and honey beer at the Bush Shack Brewery. A trip to Kent's glass studio in witchcliffe was a highlight, as was seeing the grounds and art collection at the Leeuwin Estate.
We had a special treat for Palm Sunday, though, when we went to the smallest church ever. Not just a small congregation (there were 7, including us), but we actually made the building feel full. Everyone was very pleasant, and we went up to the cafe as a group afterwards to talk about water rights and the new restaurant coming into town.
All in all, a fulfilling weekend.
(photos to share, just as soon as i charge the batteries!)
So, this is Nathan, and for this update, I want to share a little bit about our weekend away -- the first weekend that we have had free together to get out of town a little. We got a chance to spend some time in Margaret River, a sort of Napa Valley of Western Australia, and a great place to blow the diet.
We stayed at a B&B called Bewitched, whose proprietor was named (i'm not making this up), Samantha. They only have accomodation for one couple, so it was nice and cozy, and we ate roughly 8 squillion calories for breakfast every day. Which was nice.
We can still pass for tourists, especially when Kris wears that red hawaiian shirt that we picked up in New Zealand, so we felt okay about going on a canoe tour of the area. We felt even better when we found out that 18 of 23 were from Perth. We have now officially eaten Bush Tucker, from Tasmanian Pepper corns, to desert limes, to emu (Kris), and witchity grubs. Mmmmm. We even found out that there is an edible form of the ice plant, called a pig's face, or bain. Salty kiwi flavor, who knew?!
This last weekend was also a big international surf competition at Margaret River -- we got to see the women's finals and presentation of the trophy. Pretty cool, and something that we're not likely to get to see in Minnesota.
The rest of the weekend was spent in gastronomic bliss, doing wine tastings, cheese tastings, olive oil tastings, eating ocean trout and fennel, rhubarb brulee, and ending up having lavender and honey beer at the Bush Shack Brewery. A trip to Kent's glass studio in witchcliffe was a highlight, as was seeing the grounds and art collection at the Leeuwin Estate.
We had a special treat for Palm Sunday, though, when we went to the smallest church ever. Not just a small congregation (there were 7, including us), but we actually made the building feel full. Everyone was very pleasant, and we went up to the cafe as a group afterwards to talk about water rights and the new restaurant coming into town.
All in all, a fulfilling weekend.
(photos to share, just as soon as i charge the batteries!)
2 comments:
I was just a wee bit hungery before reading this, and now I'm STARVING. Lavender and honey beer, while appropriately weird, actually sounds good. Glad you guys a weekend away and, more importantly, together!
Well I think Lavender and Honey beer sounds quite awful. But then i never liked beer! Tourists are good....
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