The plan for today was to have a bit of a look around Melbourne, go on a tram, visit the botanical gardens, Captain Cook's cottage, Flinders St Station etc. and head to the competition venue to pick up the girls' competitor numbers. Well it didn't quite work out that way. It was an overcast, drizzly, windy day from start to finish today. Such a contrast to sunny yesterday when we wore t-shirts. So we let the kids stay snug in bed until 9am when we had a nice cooked breakfast to warm us up.
We couldn't just stay in the caravan all day so we jumped in the car and headed back to the city for another drive around.
I actually think the city is better at night! With crazy drivers increasing the excitement we headed to St Kilda beach, somewhere we hadn't gone last night. Despite the appalling weather, Sarah insisted on hopping out for a play on the beach. We let her run about, expending a tiny bit of the energy she possesses, for five minutes before calling her back to the warmth of the car.
It was too early to go to pick up the girls' dancing numbers so we returned to the caravan park and had a run through of all their dances. About 2.30pm we returned once more to the city, found the venue, and happened to met up with three other Thistle families there. A quick catch up with them, handing over of registration cards, collection of goody bags for participants, purchase of new dancing singlets and a look at the hall layout took us another hour. We took a different route back to the caravan park, trying to work out the best way to get there tomorrow. It wasn't. Mainly because we went straight where we should have turned right and ended up going in the wrong direction.
Once we found our way back, it was time to iron all the costumes. The job fell to me (yay! Not) while Peter organised dinner. We had picked up a marinated butterflied lamb at woolies yesterday and cook it on the grill plate on the gas stove. It was surprisingly good. It came vacuum packed so we'll look out for them at home for future camping trips.
In bed by 8.45 ready for the first big day tomorrow. Emily dances first, starting in the morning but Sarah doesn't start until late afternoon so it's going to be a long day.
From there we headed over to Luna Park so the kids could be wowed by the entry. They were.
It was too early to go to pick up the girls' dancing numbers so we returned to the caravan park and had a run through of all their dances. About 2.30pm we returned once more to the city, found the venue, and happened to met up with three other Thistle families there. A quick catch up with them, handing over of registration cards, collection of goody bags for participants, purchase of new dancing singlets and a look at the hall layout took us another hour. We took a different route back to the caravan park, trying to work out the best way to get there tomorrow. It wasn't. Mainly because we went straight where we should have turned right and ended up going in the wrong direction.
Once we found our way back, it was time to iron all the costumes. The job fell to me (yay! Not) while Peter organised dinner. We had picked up a marinated butterflied lamb at woolies yesterday and cook it on the grill plate on the gas stove. It was surprisingly good. It came vacuum packed so we'll look out for them at home for future camping trips.
In bed by 8.45 ready for the first big day tomorrow. Emily dances first, starting in the morning but Sarah doesn't start until late afternoon so it's going to be a long day.
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