A long Drive (Sian)

Steve in his car, aptly named the Beast, drove me to visit my Uncle Mick who lives just over in South Australia. We knew this would be a long drive but were told varying amounts of time between 4-6 hours for the journey. We did not come across any traffic jams on the way, only rain storms. Anyway, it took us 8 hours to get there! I have a much greater appreciation of Australia now we have made this journey. To look at a map we only went through one tenth of the whole country... It is huge. What is even more bizarre is the sparseness of Australia. We drove for miles and miles through nothing but eucalyptus trees. We passed cars about once every 30 minutes!
It was lovely to meet Mick, my grandfathers brother, who has been living in Australia for many years. He lives in a lovely little township in the middle of the Australian countryside.
One thing we didn't count on was the cold! Luckily Mick has many heaters and a great foot warmer because it got down to -2 degrees at night.
Mick took us to an animal sanctuary in Berri, it was so cute! I let a monkey climb on my back and it opened my bag looking for delicious treats. Also at the sanctuary were hundreds of little Guinea Pigs - I really want one!
We visited a Historic Village in Loxton too. It was really interesting to see what the old buildings and cars looked like. One that moved me most was the immigrants houses. After the second world war many families migrated to Australia, unfortunately there was not enough housing here and they were forced to like in corregated housing - it looked like a large size bomb shelter! I am glad times have moved on.

This week we having been relaxing, we are in between jobs at the moment, and have a new placement starting on Wednesday. We will be working together again, bizarre.