Only minus 3 last night! We slept well, warm and snug BUT when it came time to get up I said I would be the one to get up and flick the switch on the under floor gas furnace.....alas......someone did not turn on the gas in our set up of camp on arrival in Canberra. So loving partner that he is, he crawled out of his snug little cocoon and went out into the big freeze to turn the gas on. Euraka we have serious warmth coming up the floor...for five minutes, then we ran out of gas in that bottle, necessitating another trip into the early morning cold to change bottles!!! The good news is that tomorrow morning no matter how cold it is we shall have heating.
Some of the host group were not feeling overly well this morning, seems they tried yet again to match Himself drink for drink last night......silly buggers! Today began with a cooked breakfast with lots of fresh brewed coffee, then we all went sightseeing again.
This time we went out to Cockington Green the minature village all done to 1/12 scale. Lots of work has gone into it.The attention to detail is astonishing, like even having Babe rounding up the sheep on the village green, and a streaker at the local soccer match.
When we left there we went across the road to the National Dinosaur Museum.
Love that everything here is called the National something.
At the dinosaur museum we saw all sorts of stuff. Lots of information about the evolution of dinosaurs. Some of the bones and petrified pieces on display came from Australia, most were from other countries. Seems we have a few bones lying around in the Roma area of Qld. Selected displays were touchable. Weird to feel you were touching a piece of rock that used to be part of a dinosaur all those millions of years ago. Definitely a must do for any family with children who like dinosaurs. Highly educational. The place has lots of children areas for enquiring minds to learn.
We did try to go to the next door pub for a quiet sit but alas it was quite full and had a wedding party about to sit down as well, so we elected to return to base for a cuppa. Right now most of the group are in the house eating chilli mud crab...very fresh, the crab was still moving when it came home from the market this afternoon! This will be followed by a crisp crackling roast pork with heaps of roast vegetables and gravy. We do it tough out on the road!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next project is to set up a timer on the heating! (and maybe a reminder on turning on gas bottles) :)
ReplyDeleteyep! or not stay in such cold places. always making sure we turn it off before travelling, will need to remind ourselves to turn it back on when we stop
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