MARGARET RIVER WEEKEND

Last weekend I had the pleasure of heading "down south" with a few friends from work for a weekend away.  "Down south" is about a three hour drive south of Perth to the town of Margaret River.  It is famous for its wineries, beaches, and gorgeous scenery and it definitely did not disappoint!

We rented a fabulous five bedroom, two story villa overlooking the coast.  It had this amazing wrap around balcony on the second story with the best view.  The five of us were quite impressed!

Our first night there (Friday) was plenty of fun.  We made a yummy meal and sat down for family dinner.  We had a visit from some high school students who were on summer holidays and had rented the place next door.  We played some fun drinking games (of course!).  We made a great fire.  And had a lovely evening.

Myself, Steve, Craig, Phoebe, and James

Kings Cup with giant cards!

Hex - credit to Maggie for teaching me this game back home :)

Winning! ... obviously ;)

On Saturday we went on a wine tour of the region.  We piled into a car with 8 other people from all over the world (some from the states, some from other parts of Australia) and ended up going to 7 wineries.  All of the wineries allow you to taste their wine, in hopes that you will buy some, so at each location we got to taste a selection of their wines.  Halfway through we had lunch at one of the locations and after the last wine stop we hit up the Margaret River chocolate factory and the cheese store.  There are many many pictures of the gorgeous wineries and some of the fun we had on the way, but here is a small selection.  There is a link at the bottom of this post to the rest of the pictures if you want to browse through more.

After the wine tour we went back to our villa, sat on the balcony with a glass of wine and enjoyed the gorgeous sunset.  It was gorgeous and the perfect end to the day!

The next day we packed up our villa and headed to the beach!  The water was pretty cold but okay once you got it.  It was so clear and pretty.  And as seems to be the case here, I saw some really neat wildlife.  Again, I've only added a small selection of the pictures below but there are much more on the link at the bottom.

The orange/yellow creature in the water is a crab!

There were about five black cockatoos which are quite rare I'm told!

As I mentioned before, here is the link to the rest of the pictures (you don't need Facebook to click on it): http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100909639911701.2798169.58014772&type=1&l=2e3626ade2

That's all for now! I have a few visitors over the next few weeks - Devin is arriving on Monday and Scott is arriving a week Sunday so I'm really looking forward to those!  I'm sure we will get up to some fun stuff while they are around as well, so look for those posts over the next two or three weeks.

LOVE KRISTY xox
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