Summer Holidays - Canberra for the first week in January

We spent from December 31 to January 6 in Canberra- Australia's bush capital.

New Years Eve was spent in the city watching Fireworks while eating gelato from the Mill Cafe in Garema Place.

We spent the next week looking at exhibitions - including "Handwritten" at the National Library ( it was cool to see Galileo's handwritten multiplication table), and Contemporary Chinese Art at the National Museum of Australia. We saw the movies Happy Feet 2 and Sherlock Holmes- a game of shadows, and I saw the The Chipmunks- Chipwrecked. We shoppped at Costco - including getting new tyres for Mum's car, and one night we had pizza down by the lake. I caught up with my friend Alicia - she's doing really well at Uni and has been offered honours from all her course lecturers, she gave me a Harry Potter chocolate frog as well as some great Top Gear DVDs for Christmas. I was going to take her to Seoul Palace for dinner, but it's closed until January 17 - so we went to Taj Mahal for Indian instead. Alicia is hoping to get a US Internship in 2012 - she has to apply by August 5 - we wish her lots of luck with her application because we think she will love Washinton DC as much as we do.

And I signed up for CanCon at MindGames - Dad and I are going  January 27-29- YAY :)

Behind Mum and me is the tinsel truck - everywhere we went in Canberra we saw the tinsel truck - it was spooky when it was even in the carpark at Telstra Tower when we went there for Mum's birthday!

Lake Burley Griffin

Canberra.