We had a lovely two-night stay in Melbourne, with Jim and Karen’s colleagues Anne & Graeme from the Outback. Jim was able to take his boys to dinner for the first time in two years, and the rest of us enjoyed a fantastic Thai dinner with Lucy, her brother John, and his girlfriend Simone, who came to Melbourne with Marty to celebrate the finish of our Tour d’GOR. <\/p>\n
The highlight of our day in Melbourne was visiting Moorabbin, training home of the Aussie Rules footy club (team) Jim ‘barracks’ (roots) for – the Saints (Saint Kilda), to watch a training session – their first game of the pre-season is next week. Jim has been going on about this game and these guys for years, and FORCED me to watch some tapes when I went to Serbia!! (Just kidding!) I got to see my favorite footballer – Robert Harvey (#35), historically one of the club’s top players (and still is), and who is probably retiring this year. That was fun – sure wish we could have seen a game. Anwar is playing this year too, and what a blast that would have been, to see him play! We ended the day with delicious take out Vietnamese dinner with the whole crowd. <\/p>\n
Then Jim and Irena took us to the airport the next morning – Karen also met us for a last quick goodbye – and we were off to the Great Barrier Reef; wow, how time flies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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