Hunter Valley at Belleray (and our Australian Thanksgiving)

I know it's been ages since i've updated the blog, and I don't even know where to start! We've got so many exciting things going on right now! I may have to "back-post"... In the meantime, one of the best weekends we've had here was last weekend. It was a colleagues 30th birthday, so we rented a house up in the Hunter Valley. (Hunter Valley is basically Sydney's version of Napa or Sonoma). The weekend was an absolute blast, the company was good and the house was AMAZING!



The house was sitting on 160 acres of land. There were animals everywhere! When we first arrived, we were stepping over snails on the main walkway. We woke up the next morning, fed the horses some apples, saw some kangaroos bouncing around and then of course got to see the swans, the goose and the cattle all roaming around!

Can you see the kangaroo?



Here are the horses...





So, we woke up Saturday morning and a little bus picked us up to take us to some of the wineries. The 10 of us hopped in the bus and we were on our way... We went to some great wineries and had a wonderful "light" lunch and then headed back to the ranch!

Here's me and two of my (tall) colleagues at one of the wineries:



Saturday night, my friend Amy had some caterers come in to cook us a great dinner. We all got dressed up in our cocktail attire and had a delicious meal.






We then played some games - Smart Ass and Nancy and Marcus’ fun "charades" type game. It was a BLAST and there were LOTS of laughs! Oh... Socialism and Mr. T!



After a long night of games, we went to bed and woke up and made a big breakfast... Fry up! Here's us eating on the outside patio.



We then went for a little swim in our pool and relaxed in the sun. Then Chris - the romance that he is took me for a little ride in the row boat on our pond. We went to visit "Bruce the Goose" and got about 20ft away from the cows that roamed on the property...



At around 4pm, it was time to check out and head back to the real world. So, Team Belleray got together for a picture (and made a poor attempt at a pyramid). Here's Team Belleray!



If you'd like to see some more pics from the weekend, you can take a look at Gary's Blog by clicking here, or you can take a look at our slideshow below!