Hooky + Road Trip = Good Times!

For those outside of Australia, this weekend was the long weekend to celebrate the queen's birthday which means Australians either flock to get out of town or those who live outside the city try to get into the city. As I may have mentioned earlier in a post my original plans were to stay in the city... but a friend convinced me to play hooky from my very important waitress job and go on a road trip. It was very worth it! We went to Jindabyne, which is the local town for the snow fields of Australia. While there was no snow on the ground we did manage to see snow falling and not freeze to death. Here are some pictures of the weekend away.

View from the house

It's hard to tell but it's snowing in this picture

Emu's! We actually saw some wild one's but wasn't able to snag a pic of the sneaky birds

Wombats - my favorite Aussie animal :)
A spectacular view on the way back to the city

On the way down to Jindy we actually stopped in Canberra and saw the Parliament building and war memorial. It was really cool to see the Pariament building with something like 400 clocks and it was actually a really cool building. The war memorial was more like a museum and had tons of information and wasn't the most uplifting experience - but a good one for anyone going to Canberra.


An artsy picture under the flag pole

It's hard to tell but there are actually 3 clocks in view in this picture

Poppies at the war memorial

View from above the war memorial down towards Parliament building

Front view of parliament building