To celebrate our anniversary, we decided to spend a night/day out in the Hunter Valley. Hunter Valley is about a 2 hour drive north of Sydney and is a famous wine growing region in Australia. After heading up Friday after work, we spent the night at the Hunter Valley Bed & Breakfast which was average at best. The only redeeming qualities were seeing kangaroos in the field from the breakfast table and Michael playing fetch with Mojo (the dog).
Afterwards, with little useful advice/direction from the b&b, we headed over to check out the Hunter Valley Gardens. On the walk up towards it we were discussing how much we were willing to pay to walk around a garden and settled on $12 each. However, when we found out admission was $27 per person that settled that.
Instead, we decided to aqua golf, i.e., drive golf balls into a small lake. If you managed to hit a ball into one of the tiny floating nets, you win free prizes (depending on the net hit). Amazingly, 1 ball after calling it, Michael hit the ball into the net that won us a free entry to the gardens. Afternoon planned.
However, we didn't have time to see the gardens yet as we had to head over to the restaurant for our gnocchi class! Below are some pictures from the restaurant, Il Cacciatore.
Class was followed by a delicious lunch including some of the gnocchi we made.
After lunch we headed back to the garden to redeem our prize. The garden was broken into different regions: Chinese Gardens, Italian Grotto, Indian Mosaic, etc... It was nice, but definitely not worth $54. Michael was happy because he saw 3 new birds, bring his total up to 182.
We enjoyed our time in Hunter Valley although I can't say that we had a typical visit to the area. Next time, maybe we'll actually visit a winery.
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