Christmas Day

Merry Christmas to all!!!

Three very excited children this morning - Santa had visited and left presents in their sacks. Much oooo - ing and arr - ing and "I love its" were exclaimed! Very entertaining for us to watch!

A special pancake breakfast this morning - Zac will only eat pancakes with vegemite and cheese despite all other sweet offerings! Ethan and Gem enjoyed theirs will a wide variety of condiments!

We headed into the centre of town to see the cave gardens located near the town hall. The cave gardens are another sink hole which although covered with lovely green moss is also doubling as a storm water drain and there was a fair bit of litter spoiling the vista. It does however make us wonder with the number of sink holes around this area - how safe are the surrounding buildings??? We also met a couple of Asian tourists at the gardens and Darrin explaining some of the surrounds to them in simple language when they turned around and declared that they were from Mooroolbark!!!!

Then off to Centenary Tower - the highest point in Mt Gambier - well it is actually on Mt Gambier. A drive to the car park and then a VERY steep walk up the hill to the tower. Walking up alone would have been enough of an effort but pushing two prams up the hill added to the challenge. Zac did really well walking up and down the hill. Great views from the top. It must be a perfect environment for butterflies here as they were quite plentiful but difficult to photograph. Drinks, snacks and several photos later we headed back down the track.

After lunch, arvo naps and a quick trip to the local adventure playground we came home for our Christmas dinner.

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day with family and friends.

PS - forgot to add to yesterdays entry that when we were at Dingly Dell there was a sign as a part of the Admella sinking - When the boat went down it was carrying three race horses that - one of the horses died, the other - not sure what happened to it but the third horse - not only did the horse go down on a sinking ship - it swam to land and then was lost for ten days and once they found it they shipped it immediately to Melbourne for a horse race - which incidentally the poor horse was incapable of completing - We really did just feel very sorry for this poor horse and wondered what sense if any the owners had!