Update from Kinglake (posted it for you mum)

Here we are in the hills of Kinglake with plenty of fog and cold weather. It's been around the 6-8C mark during the day and colder at night.
Well we set off this morning around 8.30am to go to the market in Mernda. Me Gary and Peter had a nice spend up, Dad went around the whole market in about 10 minutes and was impatiently waiting for us to finish - Gary and Peter purposely went round the circuit again just to make him wait! Me and Gary bought this neat 8 tools in one thingy - it cuts tiles, glass and mirror so will come in handy for the kitchen when I do the tile splashback on the bench. I got some nice soap, turkish bread and some honey. Me and Pete have discovered that Stones Green Ginger wine is very much cheaper here - $8 a bottle in some places so we felt compelled to buy 4 more bottles today. Gary hasn't found casks of Country medium so had to make do with a local variety. We went to the House of Bottles on the way home - it was a bit boring because the owner took us on a guided tour and was very long winded and told us all he knew about gem stones! Gary is still searching for some good second hand stores.
Last night Gordon put a special dinner special on for us complete with a country blue grass band - very rustic and hillbilly types. The bass player had a long black coat, long grey hair, long grey beard and a black bowler hat - looked a bit like one of the ZZ Top guys. They had a fiddle player who arrived late and was horrified when I asked him to play The Devil Went Down to Georgia - said he couldnt play anything as difficult as that!! I had an earlier audience request and they played Duelling Banjos for me.
The guys have gone back to the pub (surprise surprise) and Marlene is just putting the finishing touches to tonights dinner - she is such a good cook.
The fog has rolled in again and its really cold.
I dont know what is planned for tomorrow. We got a map today so will decide in the morning. Gordon has provided a car for our use - an old Mitsi Galant which struggles on the hills but it goes and thats the main thing. Dad is our driver. Marlene says we will be going to some market closer to town and having lunch somewhere there. I want to go to the casino to win enough money to pay for my new dishwasher.
Well better go now and do some more surfing. There's no cellphone coverage up this high - it only kicks in as you go down the ranges.
Catch up with you tomorrow.