Week at Woodleigh

Hi Everyone,
It has been a little while since I last posted a blog, and life has been very interesting to say the least! After Yarram, I went off to a few spots in the Latrobe Valley to fill in the week before I was due at Sale for the next Rally! I have been most impressed with the beautiful scenery around this part of Victoria. I have always loved to see hills and trees and rivers etc, I think it comes from WA being so flat and dry! Parts of Victoria , just leave me driving with my mouth hanging open! Very reminiscent of Tasmania!
Back to motorhoming rally. At Sale we were 850 odd, motorhomes and about 1500 people. I was "lucky" enough to be issued with a site with electricity, not that it stayed on all day! and was in the middle of the Sale showground oval. The 850 motorhomes, were scattered around the Sale showgrounds, Sale Greyhound track, and the Gippsland Grammar schoo1 grounds also, there was an area between the showgrounds and the cattle sale yards, known as Siberia where the "big" rigs were parked! It was amazing the orgasnisation that went into getting this rally off the ground. Over 250 volunteers put in an extra week before the rally starts, being inducted into occ health and safety issues! For the privilege of working their butts off they pay for their sites and get a shirt and a hat and 2 bbqs!
Obviously because of the larger numbers at the national rallies, they don't supply meals, like they do at the solo rallies, but they supply some really beautiful entertainment at nights. We had a fabulous pair of popera singers, gotgeous voices. The poor woman never was able to take off her overcoat, as we were in a very large marquee, which was absolutely freezing! she changed her gown 3 times, but you only saw what hung down below the length of her coat! There was also a back to school social, which was the theme party. Motorhomers are really into dressing up parties! I seem to be very much a stick in the mud!
I have booked myself into the next national rally at Boonah in south Qld, where I have also put myself down for a voluntary position with the  craft barn.
Finally the rally was over and I drove to Woodleigh to visit with my Victorian friend who used to live in Donnybrook in WA. It has been a great reunion, from 1988 about, since we last saw each other. Glenda and Ray, actually travel back and forth to Donnybrook annually, to a farm there, but we have never been able to tee up the connection, So here we are in Victoria. I am parked here on their farm, and able to leave the motorhome here while I fly back to WA  for my regular visit later this week. Unfortunately, Glenda and Ray had booked a trip to Tasmania, they left on Sunday, but she left me the keys to her convertible!! for me to go sightseeing while they are away! How lucky am I? Today I drove to Wonthaggi and along the bass strait coast, seeing magnificent scenery, of course who is the idiot who left the camera behind? Oh well my mind will recall the scenery. I found a fabulous patchwork shop and of course had a little binge shop, and tomorrow I am going to the shop to spend the day sewing with the local ladies and getting my head around a new quilt! oH JOY.
Well folks , that is about all for this episode! I will be in touch again soon.