zac finished his "old" job on friday and doesn't start his new job until the 10th. he was determined to get away somewhere. when the holiday program staff schedule was finalized for my work it turned out that i would be off until this wednesday. zac wanted to head of to daylesford on the weekend to stay at the conti. we went there almost a year ago (as well as a couple months ago) and i just remember freezing most of the weekend last year. i had a great time and we did a great hike but i was cold. i really didn't feel like spending the nites freezing in one of the cute little hostel-like rooms at the conti and showering in a shower room that is the same temp as outside.
we ended up being busy most of the weekend so i started looking on wotif.com on sunday morning to see what i could find for that nite. i found a deal for birches in daylesford. the cottage that the deal was for (the wren cottage) was also dog friendly (no dumping poor wombat at her grandma's for a nite--although i'm sure she would have loved that too). i booked us in for last nite. it was great! we got up there mid-afternoon, checked in to our cute little self-contained cottage and took wombi for a big walk around the main part of the lake.
wombi and zac looking way too cool:
me and my pup on my favourite pier at the lake:
a boy and his dog:
wombat had sooooo much fun! we walked her around the entire lake (the main part and then the other more secluded part that you have to cross a road to get to) this morning. she even went in the water completely by her own choice today (she went in yesterday too but that was because she stepped in the mud at the edge of the lake and zac placed her in the water to clean her legs and belly- she was very good about the whole thing though). she even picked out a stick for zac to throw for her! the video is the furthest she got in the water-- she did it a couple times before trotting off to chew her stick to bits.
she was amazingly well behaved around other dogs (except for one incident outside the puppy phat shop in town that wasn't really her fault but it resulted in her going crazy at a little puppy that darted out from the shop unexpectedly and then caused her in her stress to attack the wooden dog sitting next to her on the footpath). she's exhausted now from her 24hrs of extreme fun and stimulation and me and zac are VERY relaxed from the trip. we'll be going back to birches again (i think that'll be our winter place to stay in daylesford, with wombi of course; the conti will be our summer place there).
we ended up being busy most of the weekend so i started looking on wotif.com on sunday morning to see what i could find for that nite. i found a deal for birches in daylesford. the cottage that the deal was for (the wren cottage) was also dog friendly (no dumping poor wombat at her grandma's for a nite--although i'm sure she would have loved that too). i booked us in for last nite. it was great! we got up there mid-afternoon, checked in to our cute little self-contained cottage and took wombi for a big walk around the main part of the lake.
wombi and zac looking way too cool:
me and my pup on my favourite pier at the lake:
a boy and his dog:
wombat had sooooo much fun! we walked her around the entire lake (the main part and then the other more secluded part that you have to cross a road to get to) this morning. she even went in the water completely by her own choice today (she went in yesterday too but that was because she stepped in the mud at the edge of the lake and zac placed her in the water to clean her legs and belly- she was very good about the whole thing though). she even picked out a stick for zac to throw for her! the video is the furthest she got in the water-- she did it a couple times before trotting off to chew her stick to bits.
she was amazingly well behaved around other dogs (except for one incident outside the puppy phat shop in town that wasn't really her fault but it resulted in her going crazy at a little puppy that darted out from the shop unexpectedly and then caused her in her stress to attack the wooden dog sitting next to her on the footpath). she's exhausted now from her 24hrs of extreme fun and stimulation and me and zac are VERY relaxed from the trip. we'll be going back to birches again (i think that'll be our winter place to stay in daylesford, with wombi of course; the conti will be our summer place there).
the cottage was great. it had a large bedroom with tv (and dvd player and vcr), stereo, wood stove (and a/c but that we didn't need that at all). the bathroom had a deep spa bath which was soooo relaxing-- i spent 1/2 the evening in it. the kitchen had pretty much everything you could need (even a picnic basket that you could use). i didn't take any pics outside but it had a little patio area and then a private yard area with a gazebo where we ate our dinner (hot chips, potato cakes and vegie sausages) and fought off mozzies with the useless citronella candle.
i went a little overboard with the bubble bath....
i went a little overboard with the bubble bath....
i had to turn the jets off for a bit to let the bubbles go down.
it was sooo relaxing though. by the time i'd wrinkled myself up in the bath and played around with the wood stove getting the fire going i was ready to crash. it was only 9:30 (at least 2 hours or more earlier than i've been going to bed the past couple weeks and i had gotten up at 11am that morning)! we had a good 12 hr sleep last nite too-- except for a few interruptions by a slightly confused and cold dog that wasn't too sure about staying on her own bed after the fire died down and from midnite until 4 am kept jumping on our bed hourly hoping to cuddle (we finally gave in cuz we got tired of taking turns getting up to remove her).
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