What a day today has been. We woke with a little sprinkle of rain and pretty much everything was wet outside. We had a leisurely breakfast, kids played on their scooters and the playground, James finished off the last few pages of his book and Naomi was starting another one.
At 10.15am we headed off to find a church and we found the Goulburn Baptist Church, quite similar to Basso and heard the message about the "Body of Christ" ( in Romans) and how once you are a committed christian and are following Jesus, then your service to Him should be done in humility and interestingly enough, if you have a talent then use it - don't over estimate the gift NOR under estimate the gift. Thoughtful message (very briefly paraphrased).
As we were in the car, we headed down to Canberra! Now who can say that... " oh let's have a country drive down to the country's capital?"... On the way, however, we saw the BIG MERINO!! We took some happy snaps, the kids walked through the "bottom" half of the ram and bought some souvenirs. We got some lunch close by and then we were on the 'road again'.
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| The Big Merino! |
So we crossed over another boundary line ( 2x today) and before you know it we were looking at Lake Burley Griffin. As Naomi had been last year, she was the designated driver which was a relief for James and a chance for him to be a tourist. We headed through the city, over the lake, past the National Library and parked outside "Questacon". As James declared later, "It was like SciTech on steroids!"
There was so much to see and do and touch. The kids saw the singing robot, free fell from a one storey tower (2x), touched and played with almost everything available to them. We all went into the earthquake house, saw the Tesslar machine, looked at animals from the deep, twisted and turned chooks eggs until our arms ached, made funny faces in the mirrors and after two hours of winding up through the building, we bought some gifts at the gift shop and headed outside, where it was actually quite warm.
We took a stroll down to the lake and took a couple of pictures. There comes a time, when one gets exhausted and tired (and a little cranky), so back in the car, to take in some of the famous sites. We saw: the New and Old Parliament Houses, the Tent Embassy and the War memorial. While we didn't have time to go into all these things, we had to pinch ourselves again to think that we were able to take them (our wonderful kids) to the capital, before any school trip, and that we crossed the nation by car to do it? Is that rambling, I hope not because in fact I'm still amazed by what we have done/and are doing. So the souvenirs will be bought at many places, because we never know when we will be back?!
Okay, then we went up Mt Ainsley and had a look at the whole city. It was a great view. Lady birds kept alighting on James and Ben had two butterflies land on him. Sarah and Naomi had nothing, we put it down to the wrong deoderant.... hehehee.
As it was getting late, and who wants to travel with lots of roos around? So we headed home for Goulburn past the airport - because hey? - if everything is closing time, the souvenir shops are closing too - except for the airport right? Right.
ON our way headed home we saw the most amazing site - 6 hang gliders above the mountain top. They were amazing and seemed to glide and hover so slowly - to be honest they are probably still up there wondering how to get down? Photos were too ridiculous to obtain, so don't hang out for those ones. Your imagination will be much better.
The next part is pretty simple, we had tea, arrived home, had showers, felt a million bucks and now three out of four are snoring, the fourth one will be harmoniously in tune with the others soon.
God bless you all,
PS. Happy Anniversary to those who want to remember and to those who don't - a kiss to you anyway x(mwah!)
Ben's favourite thing today - spending his pocket money
Sarah's favourite thing today - the singing robot and having her mum show her stuff....aaawww
James favourite thing today - not having to drive
Naomi's favourite thing today - being together to see stuff, having cups of tea/milo made for her!
Goodnight : )
Love to hear what you guys have been up to. Waiting for the next post in anticipation. Sounds like you've had a fantastic time so far and still more to go :-) Thanks for taking the time to share your journey. Lots of love JEHC.
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