After being told my many people that the Dubbo Zoo was well worth the visit, that became our destination today. However I had to try and get myself into the mode that I am constantly telling the kids.... "It is the Journey, not the Destination".
Because our total distance to travel today was just a little over 350Km, we were in no hurry and had a pleasantly slow, albeit freezing cold again, start to our morning. So after travelling for just over an hour, I pulled into a side street and announced we were going into the McFeeters Motor Museum. This is a MUST for any motoring enthusiast (which i am not by the way). The lovely couple that run it also own about 40 of the many cars on display, which are all in immaculate condition, and are all still driven today in many different car clubs and shows.
We found a park just down the road next to a lake where we could dive the van onto the lawn and setup for lunch while the kids played on the climbing equipment - another fantastic sunny day.
An hour or so later, we trundled off again, ths time stopping at Parkes to visit "The Dish". Despite the kids having enough energy to run a power turbine in their legs, we made (well tried) to get them settled and to actually be interactively involved.... which they finally did. Tyler and Dylan set off with Tracy on a Scavenger Hunt, whilst I took Kayla into a series of 3 x 10 minute 3D videos of space and Mars - quite cool really.
The kids were seemingly interested in the fact that this Dish was actually used in a movie of the same name.... until I realised their excitement was more focussed on the remote possibility of getting to watch TV. I personally dont think it really mattered what they watched.... as long as it was TV!
After close to 2 hours looking around, we set off again. Whilst I was motoring along at super high speeds again and being overtaken by every triple semi trailer in Australia, Tracy researched all the van parks at Dubbo and tried filtering out all the negative comments from the facts and we chose our resting place for the next 2 nights. Tomorrow is going to be a big one with a trip planned ( well Tracy has planned it all anyway) to the Western Plains Zoo, which is a 6km open access zoo that requires a 2 day pass just to see everything. We have.... ( ok, Tracy has).... decided we will drive the car around to stop the kids tiring too quickly and hopefully spending a little more time at each exhibit, rather than burning hours walking. This suits my fitness aspirations at the moment too.
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