Brisbane to Barcelona: Magenta to Adelaide

After the wedding we stayed in Magenta for one more night and then started making our way down to Adelaide for Christmas. We were undecided on where to stay the first night - camping near Yass or Canberra. The weather forecast was predicting 50kph winds and 7 degrees so we decided to head for Canberra and the safety of a hotel.
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The Big Merino in Goulburn on the way to Canberra

We visited the war memorial on Tuesday afternoon after checking in. It was interesting and incredibly moving

Sculpture in the Memorial Garden commemorating service men and women at sea

Simpson and his Donkey

Lone Piper at the closing of the memorial

View of Parliament House from the War Memorial

On Wednesday, we wanted to walk to Parliament House and almost got there but we went for coffee first and saw a sign for the annual collection of political cartoons at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House so we went there instead. We spent most of the morning there looking at the cartoons and the exhibits in the museum including Bob Hawke's old office and the chambers of the House of Reps and Senate. There were some really interesting exhibits on the journalists of the press gallery but we didn't have much time. We could have spent the whole day there

Protest badges - this one is dedicated to Jodie

Gardens of Old Parliament House

Monument to the Magna Carta

We walked around Lake Burley-Griffin to the National Museum of Australia and spent the rest of the afternoon there.

Centre of the National Museum of Australia

National Museum of Australia

The next day we went to the Mint (and pressed our own coin!) before heading off to Shepparton to Mark and Courtney's place. We stayed there for the night, supervised toy-box painting (Thanks Guys!) and went to see the Mooving Art before heading to Little Desert Nature Lodge outside of Nhill.

Lion Cow

Shrek Cow

Skeleton Cow

MerCow

Aussie Cow

We got into Adelaide on the afternoon of the 24th without too much more excitement, except for a weird pink lake we passed on the highway and finally getting rid of the locusts!