Day 3

Sunday was a pancake day thanks to Sheryl who cooked beautiful homemade ones and the kids certainly got into them eating them all up. Lily was last up at 8.30am and we wanted to get going by 9.30am as it as another big drive today, approx 5hours.  We were told by Sheryl and Ian to stop off at Monash in South Australia, as it was a huge adventure playground park, so this was our plan. We decided to stop for lunch at a small town called Cullulleraine by the lakeside and enjoy a quick bit to eat and toilet stop. Dylan, Oliver and Lily are travellling great with Dylan reading his new Percy Jackson book and Oliver doing some of his Olympic booklet from school by coloring in. Lily likes the movies, games on ipods and watching out the window at the sheep. We approached the border of Victoria and South Australia and there was the Quarantine station for fruit and vegetables. NO FRUIT OR VEGETABLES to be taken into South Australia, no problem we had eaten our fruit but hadn’t had a chance to cook our veggies yet and we had heaps of potatoes. We thought, no one would be there on a Sunday but sure enough there was.  A fine of $315 if you don’t declare it, so we handed over our potatoes and our vegetables but we were lucky enough to keep carrots. We reached Monash by 1.15pm and we suggested a limit on our time here so we could reach our destination, Burra, before sun goes down, or I usually say mad hour and kids go crazy around 5pm. Yes the kids were happy, what a fun adventure this was with so many different equipment to explore, and a fun maze to go through as well. 2 hours was left to drive, reaching Burra at 4.30pm. There is 1 caravan park here in Burra, so we headed straight for it, like everyone else. What a beautiful little town, heritage listed and we saw old miners cottages dating back to the early 1900’s.  Burra still has many of their original buildings so it was lovely going for a stroll at night down the main street. We all rugged up as it was cold, it must have been for myself to be walking in ugg boots. (Nice look I know). All in bed early and all nice and cosy for our first night in the camper trailer.