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Reg and I had a whirlwind courtship after a friendship that began when I was forteen and Reg was twenty.  My darling man tells me he fell in love with me then but waited until I was an adult, before 'testing the waters', with a letters sent from where hwe was living at the time, Dampier in Western Australia.
 
When I replied, he quit his job and set of to Melbourne sending me love letters about returning to his 'girl', from each overnight stop he arrived at. I fell in love on our first date, the first Wednesday in December 1967, the year I had turned 21.  We were engages (secretly), on the following Saturday, our second date, then we promptly planned our honeymoon and lol, we left on the 1st of January, 1968 for our honeymoon in the Grampians. 

Oh yes, we did get married, a respectable, 6 months after our first date, in May 1968, we did not want to be foolish and not get to know each other a little more before making the commitment in a church in front of family and friends. lol.  Well that is how 'we got together', and why the Grampians is such a special place to us.

Reg and I also spent his long service leave there. Our daughters attended the primary school at Halls gap and we hiked all over those mountains for a second time.

When I had my stroke at age 32, I set climbing to the top of Mount William in the Grampians as my goal.  I did it two years later.   I wonder if I could do it again at 63. WOW :-). that would be a challenge I might seriously think about :-). I think I might accept that challenge.

I have painted heaps of art works of the Grampians as I LOVE this place.

We will be staying for one week, from this Saturday night 13 March 2010, at the Grampians Gardens, Tourist Park.
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