Hi all, we had a great run down to Lavington on friday, we checked into the Classic Motor Inn. Tonya and myself then went for a walk into town and ended up staying for dinner at the Northside Hotel and watched a band. We headed back to the Crystal Fountain later on to find most had gone to bed, checked out the arrangements for Saturday. Up early on Saturday to meet and cruise together to COTM to register then after a quick wash of the car we had a relaxing cruise to Holbrook led by Graham (the chief) after morning tea and checking out the town we went into the Submarine Museum which was well worth the look. Most then had lunch at the local pub. We then headed off to tho Woolshed passing some very familiar pt's turning into the Ettamogah pub:) we arrived at the Woolshed which was a very well organised venue and well set out, looking forward to spending more time here next year. We then left to get ready for the traditional BBQ at the Cyrstal Fountain this years theme was GREEN for St Patricks day. Geoff surprised us all in a VERY BIG WAY with his choice of attire lol, a great night was had by all, good food, great company and lots of

. Next morning we met and convoyed to COTM and sqeezed in our cars (not much room) we had a very enjoyable day with over 600 cars and lots of photos taken and yes i did a bit of pt shopping:)

After judging we said some goodbyes and headed back to our motel and had pizza(worst one ever)

.early up on monday morning to start our trip to Jindabyne first fuel stop at Cabramurra, Austalia's highest town u pay for petrol one side of the road and drive across the road and fill up:silly: this is where i found out about a plague of European wasps they have there, after dancing around the car so as they didnt get in, i finally managed to get in the car with Tonya finding it quite entertaining:laugh: reminding her of when we were on the great ocean road, i was swamed by mosquitoes

We then drove to Jindabyne seeing some amazing views of the white burnt out trees for miles from the 2003 bushfires also dams and moutains, we arrived at our motel, The Banjo Paterson Inn very nice place we sampled thier own beer Kosciuskzo Pale ale (nice drop)

then we checked out the town played snooker and had dinner. Tuesday we drove to Thredbo, Smiggins and Perisher Valley nearly ran down a deer on the way:woohoo:we drove to Charlotte Pass to check the views of Mt Kosciuszko.we left for home on Wednesday stopping at Cooma, Canberra and Goulburn arriving home at 3pm and clocking up a total of 1600 kms. We had a fantastic weekend, thanks Colin for the run down, thanks Graham (chief)for saturday and thanks to Dot for the car sticker. Also thanks to all the people we met last year for making us feel welcome and part of a great club. See u all next year Oh and great to catch up with Rob and Lynn after all this time. Phil and Tonya. Photos will follow