19th April

Girls did not sleep too badly last night (thats not to say they slept well either! hehe) Olivia woke at 6 as she was asleep by 7pm the night before! After a breakfast of jam on toast (or as Sophie said i want bread and butter and jam but no black daddy - she did not want it burnt) we left the girls at the park with the in laws and toured the 747 (got it wrong last night). It was interesting and peacful! hehe

After the tour we checked that the in laws were not eaten alive by the small beings we call children and finding that a negative we headed for the Stockmans hall of fame. We booked in to do the live stockmans show and museum and headed off ot the arena where a stockman showed us his tricks and talent with animals. It was a wonderful show, this man doing all the prep and clean up and animal tricks by himself (of course animals too) whilst reciting australian bush poetry. Afterwards we got a photo with his Bullocks which were huge!

Sadly the stockmans hall of fame was having power issues andthe lights flickered the whole time we were inside though the live show made up for it! We caught up with the girls and had a very expensive box of chips and soft drink (9.80) to go with our cold chicken wings for lunch before heading off to Winton 190K down the track. At Winton we set up at Pelican caravan park (Winton being renamed this after the postmaster found the original name of Pelicans Waterhole too tedious to write on postage stamps- true story) and went off to see the Waltzing Matilda Centre. We ran otu of time here and got a pass out to come back tomorrow.

There was also a show (not live or real though) of the song Waltzing Matilda which was quite good and even kept Sophie sitting still for it (0nly 10 minutes long) though was not enough to keep cyclone Libby still. Hopeing for a good night tonight but definatly getting closer to home now. Probably only a week left of our holiday but we have had a good run!

Nite all XXX