Another great weekend...

What a good weekend... Saturday started with the typical chores, washing, cleaning, mowing and the like... But as the sun was out in strength (for the first time in what seems like weeks) we took advantage and spent almost an hour in the pool with the girls...

After dinner, we decided it would be a great opportunity to test out the tent, and let the girls spend their first night ever sleeping under canvas.

The girls loved it, and were excited by the whole thing... from the sleeping bags to torches...
Here they are all snuggled up ready for bed...

But as it got dark after they laid down... the girls decided to explore the garden by torch light... Its easy to forget how different the familiar surroundings of the garden are by torch light.

The girls managed to stay in the tent all night, even surviving the random noises and rustling which is so essential to camping.  They were both so happy, they were upset when dad packed up the tent... Hopefully this is the start of many camping adventures!

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After waking up and exploring the morning at dawn, we headed into town for a busy day.  First stop was the Powerhouse Museum.  We had intended to go to the Maritime Museum, but thought the girls would probably enjoy the Wiggles exhibition more...

Whilst Keira loved the Wiggles exhibition, and has been raving all day about the activities she undertook, Claire declared that she was 'too big' for the Wiggles, and wanted to explore the rest of the museum and do big-kid things.  We settled in the science/chemistry area, where she played with electricity generation and chemical reactions (including her favourite 'super silly slime show').

Next stop was the Monorail... The girls have never been on it before, and as it is being decommissioned in June/July of this year, we thought we had better let them experience it before its gone for good!

An opportunity to get the family in a shot together...

Next stop... Grill'd for some yummy burgers...  Our girls haven't really ever been into burgers, but today for some reason they loved them...

 After stuffing our faces with delicious burgers and chips... next we headed to San Churro's...where the girls alter-ego's were revealed... chocolate monsters on a rampage!

Last step for the day was down to Darling Quarter for a splash in the playground.  Keira by this stage was a bit tired, so sat out, but Claire got right into the fun and went a bit crazy

A nice relaxing evening and that's it, weekend over... Until next weekend!