We went into the city to the botanical gardens this morning. A friend of our from Sunny Coast days, has been in Darwin for a few years now. We hadn't seen her for 10 years, but I spotted a mummy morning tea play date she was planning at the gardens for this morning on Facebook, and decided to surprise her. Her face when she saw us was great! We got to meet her little girl, and catch up over morning tea.
After morning tea, we took the boys to the Military museum at East Point. We watched a short film about the bombing of Darwin and learned lots about Australia's involvement in WWII. I did not realise that Australia was bombed 88 times. So much death and destruction.
I baked a quiche for lunch. It's funny how you miss pottering in the kitchen and having an oven. I was starting to feel like I had forgotten how to plan a meal that couldn't just be prepared on the stove.
We took Yanda to the massive new park near Laurens this afternoon. It has a three story slide and two flying foxes. A very fun afternoon was had by all. We did get as few "carpet burns" going down the very slippery slide, but we had a blast doing it.
It's Friday, so the Palmerston Markets were on. We took the boys and their wallets out for dinner. We were adventurous in our food choices and tried Asian layered steamed jelly cake, some crispy rice noodle waffles, and bbq'd octopus. We also had Cajun chicken and avocado crepes, some honey chicken, fried rice and salt and pepper squid. Mango lassi is a must at the markets.
I found two dresses that I really liked, but when I went back with my wallet they were gone.
There were lots of fruit & vege stalls, selling a variety of tropical things we don't see that often. The boys were excited to find star fruit, as they have been asking me about it for a while. So we had to have some of that. We also got a little pink fruit that looks like a giant lillipilli or a tiny pink pear, that Lauren thinks is a rambutan, but I am not convinced.
I got some blue cypress essential oil, after a demo in which she applied some to our slide injuries and they stopped hurting. Good for cuts and bites too.
Levi was very disappointed at the end of the night when it was time to go, because he had really wanted to spend some of his money to go on the jumping castle, but they were packing up. He had been so busy running and playing on the green that he had forgotten until then.
We are nearly finished Rangers Apprentice book 2. It goes a lot faster when you have three readers. :)
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