Heading to the office, this is the view from the main strip, the ocean is behind me. We managed to get 3 full days of sunshine too!
The view from the hotel room
The first night in Burnie (Monday) was after a whole day's travel from Perth, so all we wanted to do was eat and sleep. We headed to the restaurant over the road from the hotel and got the full silver service. Nowhere in Perth could you eat the food we did (including the freshest seafood) with the service we got, and still not crack the $100 mark.
The second night (Tuesday) started well, with dinner at the hotel and a bottle of wine. Followed by more bottles of wine on the hotel balcony, chip packets, iPod cranked and Foxtel's Music MAX playing a "guys that wear makeup" special. I managed to pick about 5 of the top 10, so Chris was pretty impressed. Not sure what happened during that fourth bottle of wine, but I'm pretty sure I kicked Chris out and barked up in the bin. At least I didn't feel as bad as he did on Wednesday morning. *blerrrrgh*
A stroke of luck came about on Wednesday when the Product Manager for the east coast (for my company) asked us if we wanted to join the festivities of the Yolla bonfire night, to raise money for the Rock Eisteddford. We couldn't help ourselves and it turned to be a fantastic night with the most massive bonfire, fireworks, hot food (50c donuts) and the school band cranking out some great tunes.
Luckily for us, we had grabbed a hire car and took it for a spin up to Cradle Mountain after spending three days in the office. And yes, it was freezing up there. It was 12 degrees in the sun all day and when the sun set in the National Park, it was about 5 degrees. 
No snow there this time, but I'm hoping to make it back to Burnie for round 3 with Robin one day, and check the park out with its real winter coat.
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