A lay day in Alice where Jed and I managed to start our day with a sleep in - happy days! Milly spent the morning marking Yr 10 essays while Jed cleaned the car and rigged the UHF. We headed into town to pick up a few odds and sods, including a fan - stay tuned to see whether this ends up being a camping win or dead weight. Then it was home for the arvo and more marking and relaxing. Once Mum and Dad arrived home we prepped dinner and pottered around in the garde...

After listening to the audio book of the Martian for duration of our trip so far, today it got the better of us and we had to go see the movie at the Alice Springs Cinema! Great way to hide from the heat in the middle of the day also. After now seeing the movie and listening to the audiobook I highly recommend both! The audiobook was better but it also was a lot longer so had more opportunity to include a lot more detail to build the story!

Back to Meg and Bruce's to refresh once again and refuel and repack and plan the next leg of our journey across into Nth Qld! Today we caught up with Dahlia, Xanda, Katie and Beanz for lunch at Juicy Rump (Cas), the food was good and the company outstanding! We enjoyed a slow lunch together, Milly was thrilled when Jed returned from the bar with a double Shaw and Smith Sav Blanc!! However, she did have to resort to ice cubes to keep the nectar of the gods refre...

Today was a bit of a lay day - Jed was up and at 'em early while Milly managed to sleep in till 8:30am. We needed to get a few jobs done today: No.1: collect eggs (4) No.2: buy a UHF bracket No.3: buy new bolts for our driving lights - replacements/back ups for those that shook loose on the Oodnadatta track No.4: Buy gas burner No.5: Get tyres balanced - $60 well spent, we can certainly tell the vibration has died down as a result. No.6: Wash car - just a r...

Sunday Today was a bit of a maintenance and planning day. -Bunnings trip to get parts for our leaking water tank - then took a slight detour on the way back and called in at the old telegraph station. Spent a good hour or so here reading through all the information and history of the place. Information about how the overland telegraph line was built and also learnt a bit about the stolen generation. Because we spent so long at the telegraph station (because w...