Xmas 2010 - Darwin

Well after a week's stay in Alice Springs and stops at Wycliffe Well and Daly Waters Pub , oh and a night at the low level in Katherine we finally made it back to Darwin but ran into a snag when booking a caravan park.
 The Free Spirit park  said we could only stay for a month  so we booked into the Boomerang Park but were under trees and every time we stepped off the pad it was into mud so made enquiries again at Free Spirit and got a booking there. They were still saying something about staying only a month due to new legislation but other people think that it hasn't gone thought yet . However Free Spirit said we would just need to have an  interview after a month ,it didn't mean that we had to leave . So after a week at the Boomerang we moved to a nice site which we were able to select at Free Spirit.

 The reason we are in Darwin at this unseasonable time of the year is because my younger daughter is having twins.  They are due any day now . In fact if they don't arrive by next week  she will be induced.

 Anyway we were able to have Xmas dinner with her and my granddaughter. We had a lovely pork roast that she cooked on her BBQ and a beautiful ham that she bought and Lynn cooked in the caravan with a lovely marinade.  We decided it was too hot to have hot veggies so just had some nice salads instead.

 After such a nice lunch we came back to the park and had a quiet afternoon before getting ready to go out again for tea. We went to friends' place and had cold meat and salads which were really nice. We sat outside on their large verandah with lots of nice fans going to cool us down. We had a great evening but we had a very heavy downpour of rain which made it difficult to talk to each other it was rather deafening  and afterwards the green tree frogs set up a real racket  which didn;t help. We also lost power for a while due to the storm.

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 the noisiest green tree frog!

 A not so noisy frog

 Lynn holding forth!!!!