Tassie Treats

Pete and I were happily met by mum and dad Jones at the Hobart Airport on Tues. It was great driving to the Huon and visiting with the Watson Clan, especially as all the kids were there. It was amazing to see Emma' s beautiful girls looking so big. Most enjoyable was falling in love...with a golden labrador puppy - the latest addition to their family. I am so clucky for a puppy!! Not going to happen until we get our own place, or a more lenient Landlord.

Anyway, Pete, myself and the parents did some touristy stuff on the West Coast. I have wanted to do the ABT railway for ages, and finally got to experience it. It was a great experience and a nice day chugging along on the train. The nice rocking lull of the train had me dozey right after lunch, which prompted the tour guide to stop commenting for a bit as "some of us looked a little weary."

I could talk for ages, but don't want to write a huge jornal type entry. Here's a shot of our trip.I'd add more, but mum and dad's internet is SLOW....this took about 10 mins to upload.

Holidays

Pete and I are officially on holidays. My last day of school was Friday (basically a massive staff lunch and much shenanigans). Pete had his last exam on Saturday.
We've been flat out cleaning etc and getting ready for our trip to Tassie. We head off tomorrow and are excited to be there for Christmas. I haven't seen Dad or my brothers for over a year, so I'm particularly excited to see them!

Pete snoozing the day away

Movember

I realise Movember was obviously last month, but I wanted to share this funny pic with you all. Our school got behind the cause (to raise awareness/money for prostate cancer). Our Middle School teaching staff (the males only of course) grew mo's.
Pete did "attempt" to grow one, but it was nothing other than pathetic, and so he ended up shaving off his blonde try hard mo after 3 weeks. Man, that sounded harsh. Sorry honey!!
Anyway we sold stick-on mustaches at school a couple of weeks back, and to keep with the spirit of things, I got in on the act and bought one, and promptly put it on and had my class in stitches. Many of you will know I have very thin lips, and an absolutely non existent top lip. With a mo, it looks like I barely had a mouth. Of course it was a regular school day, and whilst the lessons weren't overly teacher directed that day, I did have to give instructions etc. After I'd outlined some expectations for the lesson, one of my especially conscientious students raised her hand, started giggling, and said "Mrs Watt, I'm really sorry, but I just can't take you seriously today."
In spite of typical rules, I asked one of the other students with a mo to open up 'Photobooth' on his computer so we could get a photo of our mo's. This student is a legend, and he actually looks like the Monopoly man! What do you think???

Anniversary

Yesterday (DEC 1st 2008) was Peter and my 1 year Wedding Anniversary. We treated ourselves to a beautiful evening of fine food, and dessert, and a beautiful sunset walk at the place we fell in Love (the old tree swing at St Marks College).
Keeping with tradition we liked the idea of doing the themed gift for each year. Seeing as though First year is PAPER, Pete bought me the remaining Twilight books from the series, and I framed him a gorgeous Japanese rice paper print.

Here is a collection of photos from our beautiful night.

My yummy eye fillet

The swing at St Marks College

Our wedding cake (defrosted after 1 year) It still wasn't quite defrosted properly
when we ate it! Oh well. That's patritti in the glasses.