Monthly Archive: December 2009
Exploring an underground mine
We enjoyed going through the underground miningmuseum. What hard work! When they were digging out the hotel rooms in the placewe stayed in on our return trip (see the next posting fora picture of the room), they discovered nearly 100,000dollars worth of opals including solid opalized fossil shells.Other miners work for 20 years and find very little.
Tasmanian Devil
You can’t get up close and personal with a Tasmanian Devil as they are quite aggressive, but we did get to watch the little guy being fed (a small chick).
Koalas at Cleland Wildlife Park
We always love Cleland Wildlife Park in Adelaide becauseyou are able to interact with the animals — pet the koalas,feed the kangaroo and wallabies and so forth.
An Amazing Playground in St. Kilda, South Australia near Adelaide
This great playground was in a small, small town about 45minutes or so north of Adelaide. It’s a free playground, butis really unusual with long slides, two fly foxes, hugeswings, a pirate ship on the water and more. The kidsand the parents had a blast! It was so much fun — andyou wouldn’t believe looking at the skies that it wasbucketing rain as we drove from Adelaide!
Mom’s Holiday Reading — The Read Aloud Handbook
I’ve been reading lots of books this holiday. Among other things (several novels, some science experiment books for kids and things like that), I’ve been re-reading one of my favorite resources, The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. I find this book inspiring and I recommend it to anyone who has children whether you homeschool them or not. It gives so many amazing statistics, facts, and real-life examples about why...