Year 11 Mum’s Weekend Away

The Year 11 Boarder Mums invited the City Mums to a ‘country weekend away’ on the 5-7 April, coinciding with Orange FOOD week.

15 Boarder Mums and 83 Day Boy Mums had a most memorable time, especially those that had not been over the Blue Mountains before!  

The weekend commenced with Orange night markets and drinks at the Greenhouse rooftop bar on the Friday night; followed by a “Feast for the Farmers” lunch at Heifer station winery then a Welcome by the Boarders games night; and the finale was Millthorpe markets or Yoga in the vines!

Some highlights included walking and talking through the vineyard, dancing in the Bull paddock, an informative welcome by Mayor Reg Kidd, the Boarders introducing themselves, meeting some lovely Mums (we had never even seen before!), laughing and sharing stories about our boys.

A special THANK YOU to everyone that attended and contributed to making this event such a success; plus Meg Merriman for baking 100 Anzac biscuits, Pru Pearce donating 100 local apples, Pip Bishop coordinating the Mums dinner, Lisa Broadley for the Welcome Bags and ‘warning’ the local stores of our arrival, Ed Swift from Printhie wines for 6 bottles and the Shore Foundation for 6 champagne prizes for our Games night. A final thank you to Dr Wright for giving us the ‘green-light’.

We were very blessed with the weather and the opportunity to meet like-minded new and old friends before our son’s complete Shore next year.  We hope this Year 11 event will be considered as an annual sojourn for Boarders inviting our City friends into the country.  Soooo much fun!

Christine Weston 
(School House Mum)