A Zoo Day - for the kids

Packing up the Caravan and getting organized to store it away for a couple weeks took a little longer than expected so we missed the start in Unley by mere minutes. Instead - we headed to the Adelaide Zoo for the day as the novelty of watching masses of riders speed by for a few seconds was wearing thin. The Zoo was great with new Pandas - Wang Wang and Funi in attendance. It was heating up though and by the end of our tour around the park we were in dire need of a cold drink and a cool place to rest our weary legs. Naturally we ended up at the bar - well the bar of the hotel we had pizza at a couple nights previous. The Barley nectar never tasted so good! The mechanics area of the marquee for the Tour was open as well - so we went to have a boo at some of the bikes and equipment. The kids lucked out with some professional water bottles - complete with ice cold water! The boys, Bailey and Jen had a go on the cycle-ergometer and Jen managed to top the list of females for the day - getting about 590 watts! The day was quickly fading away so we headed back to the Caravan park - cooked up a feast and then quickly got back on the road to meet up with Hugh - an acquaintance of the Coddingtons, who was going to caravan-sit for a couple weeks. He had booked us into a hotel near his home called the Camelot Castle - guess what - it was an actual castle - the kids and Jen had a tour of the dungeon and some of it's other features while I went with Hugh to park the van. We were the only ones in the hotel so it was a bit eerie for the kids. There was a lifesize chessboard out on the veranda or court as well - so I had the kids take the places of the King, Queen and Knight for some pics this AM- they were all about the same size as the pieces! We're off to Singapore, London and finally Geneva today - 30+ hours of travel - it makes my head hurt just to think about it! We'll get there in the end!