I took a couple of days off work last week and went to Canberra for an extended weekend.  We left Thursday morning when Nathan had his first nap of the day (around 9 am) and after a couple of stops we got to Collector around 12:20 pm, which was just in time for our 12:30 pm booking for lunch at the Lynwood Cafe.  It’s very fancy there, and we had a very tasty lunch.  Unfortunately for me, though, Nathan also thought it was tasty and so I left feeling a bit hungry still because he had eaten half my lunch!

We stayed at our favourite accommodation in Canberra which is at ANU (Australian National University).  The rooms are old, but they are spacious and you have a living room, a bedroom and a bathroom.  Andrew can never stop talking about the heated floor in the bathroom, but I have to admit it is rather nice!

Floriade, as always, was beautiful.  The flowers were all looking great and we had a really warm and sunny day to explore.  Nathan wasn’t really keen on the pram that day, and so he spent most of it in the pouch being carried by me.  The pram did come in handy, though, in the late afternoon when I was feeling a bit tired and Nathan (for reasons unknown to us) decided that it was ok to sit in.

During the day Nathan got to sit on the back of a kangaroo (see photo below) and played on the ground a few times.  He is still sticking most things in his mouth, and so everything on the ground went in there….dry leaves, twigs, grass, etc.  We tried to stop him, but you can never catch it all.  This point was highlighted when Nathan started drooling excessively and sort of gagging in the afternoon.  This went on for a while, but Nathan wouldn’t let us feel in his mouth to see if there was anything in there.  Finally I was able to get a finger in to check, and found a dead leaf stuck to the roof of his mouth!

The rest of the weekend found us at the National Museum, the War Memorial to check out the new Vietnam section, and a visit to our friends Tracey and Rob.  Nathan didn’t sleep particularly well while we were away, and so we were all exhausted by the time we got home on Sunday afternoon.

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