Celebrating Christmas and crossing the new year in Melbourne
For the first time in many many years, I am spending both Xmas and New Year overseas. The main reason why this was not possible the past 8 years was due to my job as a teacher, since school usually starts on 2 Jan right after New Year Day and protected time for most schools actually ends about a week before Xmas. So I was quite stoked to be spending both Xmas and New Year overseas. Work had picked right up as we enter mid-end season and I was working almost everyday. The good news was that they have assured us that we will not be working no Xmas and Boxing day as well as New Year Day. On Xmas eve, I had decided not to go in to work since they were only gonna clock in about 4h that day. It didn't make sense time-wise and financially. We decided to drive 3.5h up north to a place called Cactus Country. To be clear, this is not high up on my list of places to see when in Melbourne our reasoning was that we should probably do more/ go to more places that ordinary tourists don't go ...