Day 29 Berri

The kids all slept well last night despite the wind and our very noisy and inconsiderate neighbours carrying on till well after midnight. Gem woke up for Mummy cuddles later in the night and slept the rest of the night in our bed holding Mummy's hand.

Was still quite windy this morning as we set off for Loxton Historical Village. It is rather like a small Sovereign Hill styled village but is not gold rush based but set in the farming late 1800's to early 1900's. We all enjoyed looking around and for a while had the whole place to ourselves. Even when others arrived we never bumped into them.

The kids started out playing on some old toys - tricycles, old styled see-saws and an odd sort of peddle driven roundabout. Ethan and Gemma especially like the old trikes.

Then it was a wander through the main street with a barber's, bakery, printers (see pic of boys trying on their printers hats), fire station, church, mechanic, police station, lockup, general store etc.... There was quite a few bits and pieces of old machinery around including an old steam train which was set on track that used to run through the area including the old train station and ticket office.

Darrin, Zac and Gemma tried out the old "time out" stocks and lock up cell. Gemma thought it was funny where as Zac was not so impressed.

On the way home we stopped off at Lock 4 to show the kids the Lock system but unfortunately there was no boats needing to pass though. Ethan and Gemma fell asleep on the way back so we put them straight to bed and the rest of us had lunch and then naps.

Once all were up and fed we just hung about the campsite and visited the park. Dinner, bike riding, showers, milos and bed.