Thierings on Tour

This morning started with some celebrations for our Jazzy, who has completed 100 days of learning and with a good chunk of that on the road too! Just like her friends back in Sydney, she got to dress up like a 100 year old. Izzy and I had bought her a special wig for it and we improvised with items of clothing from several other wardrobes to throw her outfit together. It was nice for her to share in the celebrations virtually by seeing some of the photos of her friends also.

Luckily the wig and dressing up helped with a bit of motivation to do some homework too as she got to do some of her video recordings for her distance education teachers in her wig 😂 we might have to keep this one as a motivator for future work…

To mark the special occasion we headed off to the movies in the afternoon. There wasn’t a great lot of choice but in the end we watched Fantastic Four and the big girls loved it! Even Scarly got into it, which surprised us all as it wasn’t a cartoon. Or maybe she was just excited to get her own mini popcorn, which helped her sit through the whole movie.

Chris tried to chase up the status of the suspension coils, but unfortunately didn’t get any updates on that. So he decided to get the tyre replaced before the car went in for more work. The only Maxxis stockist had run out of that model tyre, meaning we had to use the spare. It made Chris very nervous knowing that we would be doing the Tanami track with a compromised spare and potentially the volatile CV boot, if the suspension fix doesn’t fix the underlying problem.

While we waited for Chris to get the tyre replaced we headed off to an indoor playground and had a look around one of the local shopping centres. Sadly a lot of the shops were closed by 4pm, not sure if that’s permanent or if they just close much earlier in Alice. 

Back at camp it was a quick dinner and off to bed. Even Chris and I have been going to bed earlier here as it’s just too cold to stay up and unfortunately you can’t have fires in the caravan park.

Kms travelled – 6