Darwin

Friday 21 June 2013 - Wednesday 10 July 2013

While in Darwin we caught up with Craig’s Canberra buddy Tim and his family.  They had us over to dinner one night and while the adults caught up all the kids had a great time playing footy, basketball, nerf gun wars and sitting ducks.  We also caught up for a lunch at the Nightcliff markets,  had a ten pin bowling challenge and went to feed some of the local fish.

 

 

Adam's victory dance

 

 

 

 



Grandma and Grandad took Angie out for a day shopping and for lunch on the waterfront.   We spent an evening at Cullen bay playing footy and the Frisbee and got fish and chips for dinner. 

The boys enjoyed spending some pocket money at Mindil beach markets where they all bought a sand dollar necklace that had been hand painted by a local artist. Adam also made his own slushie where he had a little of every flavour that they had on offer. 

As the market were closing we made our way down to Mindil beach to complete our evening with a lovely sunset.

  

 

Nathan and Steph phoned us to let us know that they had won tickets to the Darwin Beer Festival.  As mum and dad were here to look after the kids we were able to go along and have a great day out.

 

There were breweries and wineries from all over Australia.  We started at booth number one and sampled beer and wine until we got to the last booth.  I can't quite remember how many booths there were all up. 

 

We also shared a couple of beers with Chris from Masterchef.

There was a free water park that we took the boys to a couple of times.  It had three huge water slides, a kids water park and a lovely swimming lagoon, which made for a great day out.

Darwin needed to find out a way to use up all those beer cans that they go through up North, so they came up with the "Beer can regatta".  There were many different crafts constructed from beer cans and the kids took part in kids activities including the tug of war.

We also visited the crocosaurus cove and watched some crazy people partake in the "Cage of Death".
The boys also got to hold a baby croc and a huge python.

The Cage of Death

As we had not booked into a van park before we got to Darwin and it was peak season we had to stay in three different van parks.  While we were staying at Hidden Valley we met "Marty the weather man" who was selling his series of books about life on the road.  Craig brought all 4 of them and has enjoyed some good reading.

We stayed in Darwin a week longer than we were going to due to car issues so it was here that we said goodbye to mum and dad and they made their way back down North.