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| MULLA VILLA |
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| President DON looking a bit overdressed at the Wollombi Winery. !!!! |
Connect Coaches had a breakdown of their large bus so Liam Greene booked us a red bus coach and driver to take us on our trip, Liam and his wife were our host and hostess .
The weather was great our bus was comfortable and all in all a lovely day was had.
We left West Gosford at 8-30am and headed off .
Our 1st stop was morning tea at Mangrove Creek Dam , Liam warned us that the trivia which was to follow would have some questions regarding the dam so after a beaut morning tea provided by Liam and his lovely wife (who made the yummy slices and cakes that we were treated to), we all read up on the dam and its history etc so we would know all the answers and win the Chocolate FREDDO FROG prizes.
No one got the whole 10 questions right but some of us got 6 and 5 and were rewarded with a Chocolate frog for being so clever...
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| THE DAM |
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| Some of the ladies were enjoying the tea, coffee and slices provided by the Hostess |
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| The Hot water was set up for our tea and coffee morning tea... |
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| Some of our group enjoying the views of the Mangrove Creek Dam |
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| NO !!!! Barry wasnt wearing a BEANIE he was a real bandaged bear. Did Ros finally snap and clobber him or what happened . ???? We carried on to our next stop WOLLOMBI Wines Vinyard, where the owners Peter and Alyson Hoft were waiting for us with a lovely selection of their wines for us to sample. Many of our group purchased some of these lovely wines, (just for medicinal purposes we were told). |
I drink champagne when I’m happy
And when I’m sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone.
When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I’m not hungry
And drink it when I am.
Otherwise, I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty.
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| The wine tasting was waiting for us |
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| The resident Cat "PEPSI" looking bored by it all |
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| They have a cabin to rent out... some of the ladies thought it a bit too RUSTIC |
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| Keith contemplating, will he or won't he buy this one.... Onwards we pressed and arrived at the lovely old Mulla Villa Homestead for lunch about 12.00 midday. ************************* |
Our next stop was the lovely Mulla Villa Homestead where we were booked to have lunch. We had a lovely two course lunch and then before we left again we had a tour of the old homestead including the convict quarters. (No one wanted to book in to the convict quarters I noticed ), cant understand why ???????
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| MULLA VILLA HOMESTEAD, the convict quarters were underneath.... |
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| Waiting for lunch to arrive. |
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| A lovely Apple crumble desert and ice cream and custard and of course a Strawberry |
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| A sticky date pudding |
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| The lovely food being enjoyed |
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| Get your eyes of my food Lional....!!!! |
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| Some of the happy lunch crew... |
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| Barry still wearing his warm beanie .....???? |
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| Tho Lovely log fire at Mulla Villa |
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| Look closer, IT's a Bottle brush tree |
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| A blue eyed Honeyeater joined us for a little visit . Just beautiful !!!! |
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| Some lovely Jams and relishes were for sale at Mulla Villa . All in all we had a lovely day out , and for those who couldn't be there You missed a lovely day out and WE missed you. Thank's Alan and Mick for organising this lovely trip , we all enjoyed it.... These trips with Connect Coaches are great.... Next Probus meeting , 10am Narara 13th September and it will be SPRING.... Hope to see you there !! Thursday 27th September (still SPRING) Lunch together at Ourimbah RSL in the lovely new dining room , Hope to see you there too.... |
