We're back from our fun and educational trip to Canberra :)
Thanks Yvette, Dave and Tassy for letting us stay, feeding and watering us and chauffeuring us around to all the sites! We had an awesome time with you! You'll have to come to stay with us next time!We drove down Saturday and I got to spend the afternoon Scrapping with Yvette while Will caught up on some zzzz's! I hoped to do 5 pages over the 2 days, but only managed 4.5
pages, but that's not bad! I love Yvette's style, and she makes it seem just so effortless! If you have ever seen her scrap it's like the page just comes together in the minimum of time! I'm still shuffling stuff around my page and she's got most of her's stuck down! I tried to slow her down with endless requests for cups of tea and snacks {giggles} but she still managed to finish her first page before me! Amazing {clapping hands in admiration!} Then Yvette amazed me even more by whipping up a delicious dinner of Quesedillas [spelling??!] somewhere in the middle of her scrapping. She's a machine.
On Sunday we started out with breakfast at Manuka then went to the Kingston markets. They had the most fabulous foods there (the other goods were only ho-hum) and I bought a delicious loaf of sundried tomato and fetta woodfired bread and some caramel macadamias. Oh soooo good! They cheat though- they give you a sample of warm caramel macadamias that suck you in with their deliciousness, it's virtually impossible to walk away without buying them! Best advertising ploy ever!
After the markets we headed off to New Parliament House (I guess after 22 years I could probably just call it Parliament
House!) where Will celebrated Australia being the only country to eat their national emblem by pretending to eat the Roo on the giant steel emblem at the front of the building (see pic above)! We also checked out some of the inside including the House of Reps and saw the Magna Carta (yep we have one of the copies! Who knew?!) and the Prime Minister portraits.We then checked out Old Par
liament House (did you know there is a position called a Government Whip? Thats way cool!) and saw the peep hole into the Prime Minister's office. Dave took us on a tour around the embassies then it was up Black Mountain Tower for an aerial look at Canberra! It has the best view from up there, it's definitely a must if you are visiting Canberra! You can see all around our Nation's Capital, we could almost see Yvette's house! Thanks for pointing out all the sites Y & D, it was cool to see things from a bird's-eye view! Loved it.It was a fantastic first trip to Canberra ever for Will (yes, very uneducated and unpatriotic!) and a great refresher for
me, seeing as I hadn't done the touristy things for about 13 years since I came with my year 10 School Excursion (16hr bus trip from Grafton- that was a trip to remember!) Next time we'll have to come and do some of the museums!Thank You Yvette for being a wonderful hostess and I loved getting in some scrap time with you too! I'll post the pages soon xoxo
:) C
2 comments:
What a great trip you had to Canberra. You never mentioned Tassy. Was she there too? I know Yvette would have loved having some family time with you and doing what you both love....scrapping and eating fine foods.
Never thought about us Aussies eating our emblem Will. Hummm.
Love Mommy
WV: Pounal
I have a button pounal down the front of my dress.
I had an awesome weekend too!!! Thank you SO much for coming. How were those caramel macadamias?
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