Fri

Day 27 – Alice Springs (sunny)

I can’t remember what happened this day. Must have been a big night!

The top photo is from the inside of our cabin!

Sat

Day 28

Today’s main event was the Henley on Todd Regatta- boat-related races in the dry Todd river bed. It began with a boat parade through the Todd Mall. Some boats were so tall they hardly fit through the arches in the middle of the mall. Kids squirted the boat people with water pistols. As the parade swept through everyone followed them up to the north end of the river bed where the arena was.

There were many different events. They had under 18’s, backpackers, sponsors, bath tub, water ski, surf board paddle, BYO boat, sand shoveling, surf rescue, boogie board, beach sprint, cycling Tour d’Todd, Kayak, rowing, mini yacht, anchor the boat and Australia Cup.

The day was absolutely hilarious. The weather was beautiful and it was a great last day before we headed back to Sydney. But about ½ way through a wedding planner called with an emergency & we had to race to the internet café to help. It ended being a really hot day and we had a bit of sun stroke.

Sunday

Day 29 – Alice Springs to Sydney (it actually rained a little bit)

Today was the day. We packed everything up. Got a taxi to the airport and waited until 1pm go through to board the Qantas flight to Sydney. A flight attendant who must have been from a really small town had a problem with Anthea’s violin being in the cabin but we got on our way without too much trouble.

So that is the end of our adventure for now. We are staying in Sydney for a few weeks until the Van is fixed and we sort out what to do next. We could be teaching in a remote Indigenous community, we could be driving to Uluru, we could be driving to Darwin. Why knows?

So I probably won’t make any updates until we’re back on our trip, unless something really interesting happens and I just have to share it. Maybe our birthdays?!

Rodney & Anthea 25/08/10