School Holidays Continue

Back home, the 2nd week of the school holidays began with a public holiday, so Andy went off to work and we headed off to Floriade. This years theme Reflection had the flower beds serving as floral tributes to the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landings at Gallipoli. The designs which represented iconic symbols of war and peace included poppy, aeroplane fields, last post, two up, medals, red cross, rising sun, southern cross, slouch hat and eternal flame.

On entering the gates the girls were asked if they would like to complete The Great Hunt, a series of 10 questions with the answers hidden amongst the flower beds. Then join the first letter(s) of each answer to solve the puzzle! The Great Hunt provided some distraction as we wandered our way around Commonwealth Park. However with no pencil to record the answers we were a little stuck until Ella cleverly suggested using her camera to photograph each of the 10 signs.

The girls decided to paint a gnome together rather than go on the ferris wheel so we started with that activity first. The day was warming up nicely which was good for paint drying! Eventually when everyone was happy with Mr Gnome, we set off again with the kids corner as our target.

As we walked along, we discovered this very cool optical illusion. Unfortunately I didn't take a photo of the whole set up but essentially the girls laid down on the  picture and I took a photo of the mirror that was placed upright and behind with their reflection! Very clever!!














Looping up through the main flower section, the girls checked out this years cubby houses before wilting a little more in the hot sunshine. No better time for ice cream! We munched on our ice creams still meandering our way to kids corner.




Eventually we arrived to find no farmyard animals but instead Reptiles Inc. We were introduced to many different animals and managed to pat a freshwater croc, a turtle (or two) plus numerous snakes and lizards. We also discovered some pencils allowing us to complete our Florida Great Hunt.

Everyone was well and truly done by now, so we swung by to pick up Mr Gnome on the way to the car. Canberra is truly blessed to have such a beautiful and interesting annual event and we all look forward to next year.