The last two days have been spent touring Canberra, Australia's capital. Yesterday we toured the Parliament House and the parks and buildings in the area followed by an afternoon at the War Memorial. The War memorial is very impressive. At 5:00pm there was a ceremony honouring all of the soldiers who were lost in all of the conflicts in which Australia has been involved. The new Parliament is quite modern and certainly distinctive. We noted that the landsca...

Happy New Year!!! It is now New Year's Day in Canberra. A short drive from Cooma this morning brought us into Canberra. We spent the afternoon driving around including a stop on Black Mountain to view Canberra from the top of the Telstra communications tower. Dinner in downtown Canberra and then watched the 9:00 pm fireworks presentation. That allowed us to get back to the hotel to watch the midnight fireworks from Sydney.