Today we had a pretty quiet day, we went to the park on the South Melbourne foreshore and played with lots of other kids, we also saw the Spirit of Tasmania docked at the pier. We also went to the DFO at Essendon, where we bought a few things for everyone. We then came back to our appartment at South Yarra, Dad filled the car up with petrol ready to go to Glenorwan tomorrow, we are staying at the Kelly Country Motor Inn, the lady that owns it grew up in Lenah V...

We got up and surprised dad with some presents for Father's Day today and made him breaky in bed. Today we went to Sovreign Hill in Ballarat. Sovreign Hill is a gold mining settlement that is a big tourist attraction. Ballarat was a big mining town in the 1800-1900's, in 1858 the second biggest gold nugget was found here, it is still the second biggest nugget found in Australia to date. It is called the Welcome Nugget. Over a 25 year period The Sovreign Hill m...

We arrived in Melbourne after a bumpy night on the Spirit, we got up early as we hadnt been sleeping very well, no one was sick whcih was a releif. We drove out to North Fitzroy to see our cosuins where we had a big feast of bacon and eggs for breakfast. We are staying at The Darling Towers in South Yarra, we checked in there and went to see some more of our friends down in the bayside suburb of Highett. We had a bbq for tea and played with our friends Hugo &am...