Mackenzie: Today we left Adelaide River to Darwin. Today from Ojo's box I got a Glitz & Glamour. It is where you style clothes, it is fun. We were going to have lunch at the café at the caravan park and mum asked for chips and the lady was talking another language, it was a bit weird, mum thinks they weren't making lunches today. They have a TV room opposite the café and they also have a river with crocs in it, but there is a fence around it, yay. There is a pool too. For lunch we had biscuits and dip. We had a look around Darwin and went to the market. We had a look around and saw a slushie place that you buy a cup and there are 10 flavours and you can chose as many flavours as you want. We saw a lady that writes your name on rice and I got it in a necklace. We had soooooo much food, even ice cream. I had lemon sorbet and rainbow, then we went back to the caravan park.
Fletcher: Today we left Adelaide River to Darwin. We packed up in a flash then left we kept going and never stopped. Then we got to our caravan park which is called Tumbling Waters caravan park, there is a restaurant, internet café and a crocodile bridge, we saw 3 crocs. We set up the van, we walked around the park and had biscuits and dip for lunch, then dad went to the pool, there were leaves and it was all mankey at the bottom. Then we went to Harvey Norman to get a price on a ipad, we are thinking of getting an ipad mini. Then later on we went to a market called Mindil Beach Market, for dinner I had fried rice. We were walking around and I got a light tshirt which is a superman tshirt that lights up when it hears sound.
Today we left Adelaide River, we loved it and will definitely stop there on the way back, such a beautiful park. We didn't have far to drive today so we got to Berry Springs quite early. Tumbling Waters was a place that we had really been looking forward to. There is croc feeding and crocs on site and an outdoor cinema and so many palms. You get to chose a site and we found a nice peaceful one. We had booked for 2 nights but had pencilled in a week but after a quick look around we were happy to stay the 2. The park is lovely, green and tropical but it is in need a bit of love and attention and lawns mowed and the lighting is non existent at night. The showers are the same as Adelaide river, bit hard to explain but, 4 showers behind shower curtains and a common dressing area, bit like prison showers!! Little bit weird and hard to co ordinate, most people shower in bathers or don't care! We went for a walk around the park and checked out the crocs, they are amazing and were sunning themselves to warm up. You walk over a rickety bridge which is also fun, we missed the feeding as it happened the night before and also the outdoor movie. We went to the café but the girls who spoke very broken English said they only served scones and coffee during the day. We checked out the TV room which had internet access and some books to read, so there is everything you need here, our biggest problem is that it is so far out of town and we want to do so many things in Darwin. We took a drive to Havery Norman to price Ipads, kids are nagging but novelty has worn off for us but got hair clippers for the boys while we were there. We had a look at 2 other parks that took dogs but were closer to town, 1 was in a very bad way and we made a booking at the other for when we leave here. We went into Mindel Beach Market where you get the best food, beautiful gifts and the most amazing sunset on the beach. Daniel and Fletcher went for a drive to Fannie Bay to see Cameron & Jane's house, which is lovely, while Mack and I had a quick wander around the market, the Sunday market doesn't have as many stalls as Thursday so we got half way around before the boys were ringing us. They met us in the car park and they went in for food and then we went back in to finish looking at stalls. There is so many different food stalls from so many different countries, we were undecided what to get so we got a few different things and shared it out. Mack got her long awaited rice necklace, lucky as the cut off is 10 letters and she has 9. I watched the lady write it and can not believe that you can see her name on a grain of rice, clear as day, she chose a beautiful tube to put it in as a necklace. I went back in so Fletcher could have a look around at all the crocodile stalls which he loved but believe it or not he was drawn to a stall that had dance music pumping out and it was dark inside except for laser lights flashing. He never really asks for anything at all ( well except Pokémon!) but he was set on getting into the stall and had to have the t-shirt they were selling. These t-shirts have battery packs hidden and he chose a superman "S" logo one, the light cells on the S flash on and off to the beat of the music or voices, it is amazing, something I never thought he would like, Mack yes, him no, he loves it, and I loved seeing how happy he was to get it. We went for a drive around the city, it has got such lovely buildings. We drove through all the open air restaurants and clubs with all the music going and lights flashing, the kids loved it, the atmosphere was contagious and Dan pulled up out the front of one and the kids and I found ourselves having a little dance in the car. By now it was really late so we headed back out to the caravan park. We have no service at the park so I am writing this a few days late and will have to ad photos later too :(
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