Today was one of those monster days again… chock full of
fun! It started with a visit to the
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery.
There was an awesome collection of animals and artifacts in the natural part
of the museum and a fabulous display on Cyclone Tracy. I love how an hour or so in a museum has
taught our kids a whole lot of stuff they wouldn’t have gotten in a classroom…
This is “Sweetheart”, he’s 5.1 metres long and
yes, he was a real crocodile once…
After lunch we hit the Leanyer Recreation Park. How cool is the NT Government? They have provided this waterpark to the public free of charge… yep, we didn’t have to pay a cent… The kids (and Dave) had a ball on the three massive waterslides. We must have spent at least 3 hours there and the kids were up and down those slides the whole time…
Ordinarily, that would be a pretty full day… but wait, there’s
more… We had to drag the kids away from the waterpark to make our way to the
Mindil Beach Markets. These markets are
quite famous around here so a trip to Darwin would not be complete without
seeing them. There were people
everywhere but not so many that you couldn’t move. We got into the spirit of the markets and actually
had quite a bit of fun. There was
whip-cracking, fancy food, henna tattoos, air-brushed tattoos, dinner, a fire
show and a ride on a segue… all this amongst
all the other activities going on around us…
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