After 6 days in Sydney, we took a train to Canberra to visit friends. My parents stayed on in Sydney with my sister. Canberra is called a 'retirement' city. It serves as the government administrative city and all activities revolves around the federal government. Pace is slow compared to Sydney. But the sky is always clear and blue. Nice place to live when one ages.
The train ride to Canberra took almost 5 hours. But the seats are spacious and there was a restaurant wagon.
Long day, had to take a nap in the train.
First playground in Canberra and in fact, first activity in Canberra.
Already felt at home...
Getting acquainted to Snowy, the dog.
More playground and this is in the shape of acorn.
Guess who had fun?
There was sand to play with too.
View from the playground. See the blue sky, postcard like.
So much space for the kids to run around.
Up close with the kangaroos.
We visited Quest.con. It is a highly recommended place to visit. Entertaining for both children and adults. This insect is just like dried leave.
Some thermal experiment where my glasses and nose are cold (the purpler is gets, the colder it is)
Chloe trying our an experiment. Quest.com has many galleries with different themes such as water, gravity, etc. Each topic has hands on experiment everyone can try and an explanation on how the concept was used in our daily life.
Lucas was trying another experiment.
There was also activities for kids. Here, the kids were taught on how to build a paper rocket. Then they get to launch and see how far can the rocket flies.
Chloe's rocket flew much further than Lucas's.
More playtime under blue sky, clean air and sparse space.
Another playground. I have lost track of the number.
From a viewing point.
Picnic by the lake. When the wind is not blowing, it was great. When the wind blows, you will look for you jacket.
Some autumn leaves color in front of a vineyard.
They meant to look for books but ended up finding candies.
We had such great good in Canberra, We had beef, seafood, veal, pork and all the sausages, ham, yogurt.
Last pit stop to the playground before we leave for Sydney.
Another viewing point .
We took a bus to Sydney. Took only 3.5 hours.
It was Easter Monday when we left and bunny was giving away chocolate.
The hear nothing, see nothing and speak nothing monkeys.
Maybe one day, the will form a famous band?
Home sweet home
