Milly's spendathon

This has been the weekend where Milly, Alaine, Annika, Marianne and Marianne's mum, Rae, cashed in the prize Milly won in the Marie Claire magazine competition. Marianne, Alaine and Rae made a weekend of it, arriving on Friday and spending the evening with Marianne's brother, Gary, his wife, Glenda, and their son, Ben.
Despite their best efforts, they couldn't spend the $10,000 in the allotted two hours but they converted some of the money into accommodation at a guest house in Daylesford in central Victoria. Stuart will love it - it's the same-sex capital of the southern hemisphere. Eventually the bill got to $9994 and, at the last minute, Annika found a stuffed mouse for $6. Bingo!
We all went to dinner last night with guests including all the Melbourne-based Forrests. Alaine, Milly and Annika all wore either dresses or jewelry they'd bought that morning. I'm just back from a big Sunday breakfast at the Fairfield boathouse with the survivors from the night before. In the case of the cousins, it was only Alaine...