Tuesday, February 3, 2009 ~ The Letchford's Official Holiday for 2009 (Part One)

Well, we arrived back from our holidays on Tuesday, ready to get bogged into our school and 2009!  After Melbourne, we drove to Canberra (via some friend’s house) for a week and flew to Sydney for the day before flying to Darwin.  When we arrived, the Victoria river bridge was flooded, so we had to stay an extra day to see if the water level would go down.  It didn’t, and it didn’t look like it would anytime soon.  So off flew us kids and Mum back home, while Dad stayed in Darwin with the car.

We are so glad to be home again!  Whenever I get home from a holiday I always want to clean the house and make it shine!  Fortunately for me,  I’m in good company this year, because Mum has made up her mind to completely declutter the house this month.  There’s too much stuff we’re keeping because we keep thinking up all these excuses that we might use it one day, when we really should just chuck it.  Our other plan for February is for Mum to finish her two big writing projects, which need to be completed by the end of next month.

Anyway, it’s photo time!  Here is a bunch of photos from our trip!

This is Joshua playing chess against Johnathan Sarfati.  Josh lost - which was obvious because Jonathan Sarfati is a champian who plays up to 12 people (in our case, 8) at the same time - blindfolded!  I think from the photo you can see how it works - he's just sits there thinking up all his moves while some one else moves for him and calls otu the oppodents' moves.

 Nomi and I survived the giant twin flying fox!  It took me some pursuading to do it (I have this thing for hights that happens spontaneously) but I did it!

Umm... that's Nomi - on the 18-meter-high giant swing (all above photos were from the camp)

This is the Snowy Mountains, which we drove through.  Because this is our summer, there is no snow... but that doesn't mean we won't freeze!  As we were driving through it, we stopped at a place called 'Dead Horse Gap'.  I think it's safe to assume that the horse died of the cold wind... we nearly froze ourselves!

We had the opportunity to go milking while we stayed at some friends' - and we took it too!

War Memorial:

Only a small portion of all the Australian men and women who died from the wars.

Seeing all I saw at the Australian War Memorial made me so thankful for the freedom we have today, and the men and women from the ANZACS who would rather give their lives than not be free... and gave up their lives they did. 

Old Parliment House: 

 Us kids with the First Prime Minsister of Australia: the Hon. Edmund Barton

A classic Newspress room, where a News reporter for the press wrote (probably a snoopy one, at that!)

The New Parliment House at a distance; if you look ever so closely you can see the framework that holds the flag on top of the building.

I haven't even covered the National Libary, the New Parliment House and Sydney!  I suppose there'll have to be part two!  I hope you enjoyed the photos; do you have a favourite?

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