June 12-19

We had a great day out with the family on Puffing Billy on Sunday. We awoke to fog and freezing temperatures but once out at Belgrave the sun came out and we had a brilliant trip.

At Lakeside we stopped for a picnic and a paddle on the lake. P broke the rules and crashed right into the bank on purpose, much to the horror of H and R.

Monday was a holiday (Happy Birthday Queenie!) so it was nice to have P home even though he spent most of the day writing reports.
Tuesday brought some visitors - the lovely I family - to have a quick lesson in body percussion in preparation for the MSO concert two days later. The concert was spectacular complete with hundreds of energetic and enthusiastic kids, as well as some dancing skeletons. H took some interesting pics:

Very excited girls

Cellists working hard

 After the concert we wandered the city for a while, sat in on a free lunchtime organ concert at St Michael's in Collins St, then rode a giant wombat in the city square before heading home.

On Friday P was home again to write more reports, but we all went out to the movies instead and saw Babies.  It is a fabulous film and was very educational for the girls too (social studies, geography, biology, psychology....), but mostly just alot of fun to watch.
We ended this week with more music - our band's Winter Favourites concert.  A huge selection of classical, modern, vaudeville and crowd pleasers made for a great concert.
R especially liked the fact that Handel's Water Music was composed for King George I, and  H loved everything except for the fact that neither Grandma, Oma or PranGran didn't win the raffle.