4 weeks to go.

Well where should we start? I have only one more roster at work, which is about 4 weeks, or 16 shifts.  I cannot believe that it has gone so quickly.  I have had an awesome time and my love for Nursing (which lets be honest, had waned to the point of barely existing) has been reignited.  I have learnt so much about these things called adults and the things that go wrong with them compared with children!! I am unsure if I will ever work in a purely paediatric setting again!!!!  

Lyndi’s office work has finished, now that the busy peak period is well and truly over (what would you expect with minimum 40C temperatures!  So she is still doing a bit of cleaning, but otherwise we are able to do a few more tourist things and chill out.

  

Some of the flowers over the last couple of weeks have been amazing.  These on the left are Sturt desert peas.

The local 50m outdoor pool has reopened, although the water is still a chilly 16-18C.

A few of us taking the local courtesy bus to one of the clubs here in Alice for a night out!!! Well beer is cheap there!

Then our gorgeous friends Cath & NIc came up to visit from Melbourne.  We hired a car and went to Standley Chasm, which is approx 50km from Alice.  It has been gouged into tough sandstone by floods over millions of years that have surged down a narrow tributary of the Finke river system.  The result is a deep cleft with craggy slopes on either side that rise 80 metres above the floor. 

A trip to the Desert Park to look at all creatures great and small.

A visit was made to our local weaving centre where we bought a perentie and the girls both bought something.

                                    

Our noodles and boogie boards got their first use in about 9 months when we went with friends to the closest permanent water hole to Alice ‘Ellery Creek Big Hole’.  Great on a 40 C day.  It is an internationally significant geological site, and was a special meeting place for the local Arrente people.

We visited the local gallery to look at some Wallace Rockhole Pottery.  Wallace Rockhole is an Aboriginal community 117km’s west of Alice Springs that runs a pottery studio producing some great pieces with great stories.  This pot incorporates real echidna quills. And our purchase was a small dish (It was more in our price range!!).

So thats about all for now and will try to get another one put here before we leave Alice.  Love to you all from Us xx