The simple things in life are
often the best and this morning we have it all! We rolled out of bed around 8
and after having breakfast inside the house we turned on the television and
without having to tune it, or anything else..it worked!! We chilled out
watching a bit of sunrise and then left the boys to watch a few hours of kids
TV while we lazed about doing very very little.
After lunch we headed into Darwin
to play tourist but before that we made a stop at JayCar so the boys could buy
themselves a set of hand held UHF radios. Why? No idea....I just run with it.
We drove around East Point Reserve and then headed to the NT Museum and Art
Gallery which was pretty cool. First stop was a kids interactive room with our
favourite being a poster that had a list of all different colours that were in
different colours. Instead of reading the word you had to say what colour the
word was. I surprised how hard it was. There was a great Aboriginal Art gallery
as well as a gallery with heaps of native animals which the boys enjoyed. The
best part was the cyclone Tracy exhibit especially the sound room which
replicated what it would be like in the cyclone, based on that I’ll be pretty
happy to miss out on the live experience.
We headed down town to the
information centre, which was as usful as not going there and then headed to
the Telstra shop to get a replacement for our Wifi which we haven’t been able
to find since the Kunnunarra rodeo. I was told on the phone by Abdul that I
would be able to get a replacement for $50 and surprise surprise it wasn’t even
close....they wanted $220! Slightly pissed we retreated to the truck before one
of Darwin’s extremely efficient parking cops could give us a ticket! I managed
to get Abdul from Telstra to call me back and he was very sorry that he had
misunderstood me and that I would have to pay $150 to get a prepaid one that
could then be linked to my contract...OK...I’ll look after that on
Saturday....stay tuned for more on the Telstra saga.
Next stop was the fish feeding
and were shocked, to say the least, that it was going to cost $43 for our
family to feed some fish so we jumped back in Izzy and headed to Mindil Beach
markets. The boys have been dying to get a whip and they knew, through the kids
camping network, that Mick’s Whips is at the markets....so after a quick lesson
from Mick himself they went halves in a whip...great just a bit more ‘stuff’ to
fill the van with.
We wondered around the markets looking at the bits and
pieces. To the markets credit I felt that there was a fair amount of different
stuff there instead of the same stuff different town scenario. The biggest attraction about the
markets is the food! And there was heaps and heaps of it all at reasonable
prices. As part of our “Are we there yet” tour we had satay prawns and a mango
smoothy and while we went to look at the sunset on the beach it was a touch
overcrowded so we retreated back to the grassy park.
We munched on our tucker
as we watched a fire show, which I am usually pretty ambivalent about but this
guy was pretty cool and entertaining, to the point where we even put some money
in his hat. To finish the market off we headed back to Mick’s whips to watch
his show. I could only say it was cute. Here is Mick, a big burley Aussie
bloke, cracking his whips like no tomorrow...all the while singing along with a
backing sound track to some of his own songs about not giving up when you are
learing to crack a whip. But the best one was when he turned on the strobe
light and belted out a rendition of “Whip it”...only in Darwin!
We headed back to the resort where
Dunc was continuing to work on his bike in preparation for Saturdays MX race.
We sat around having a few drinks eventually retreating to the back patio for
yet a few more before retreating to a deep slumber as the next day appeared on
my watch.
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