Several weekends ago a dozen or so "engagement loans" (the nice name for homeless people like me with no real life to attend to on weekends) got together to pool our hotel budgets and rent a small little chateau known as Campbell Point House on the Bellarine Peninsula about an hour outside of Melbourne. In all about twenty work friends came together to celebrate the joint birthdays of L and D (our fantastic organizers).Although everyone else found the mansion to be gaudy ("inspired by the Chateaus of the Loire Valley of France" but poorly executed), I thought it was great - tons of fun. Five huge bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, a heli-pad, an infinity pool, grass tennis courts, fake family portraits, and several dining areas. And on a lake! A perfect weekend retreat in my opinion!
We ate (some went crazy in the kitchen as most of us hadn't seen a fridge in 3 months), we drank (an impressive amount), we sunned, and we slept (not much sleeping went on). It was a fantastic time. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves!
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| Looking at the Chateau from the pool house |
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| Pool table room |
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| A hallway near the entrance |
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| Cooking! |
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| Formal Dinner |
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| L being a great hostess |
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| Heli-pad. Enough said. |
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| Photoshoot at the pool |
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| Tennis courts |
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| The pool and lake |
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