Day 89 – Restless in Alice – Thierings on Tour

By day 5 in Alice Springs and without a car for a big chunk of it, everyone was getting rather restless and cranky. Plus the cold, it’s actually incredible what an impact the cold makes on everyone’s mood and wellbeing.

Chris finally got word about the coils that they wouldn’t be arriving until 7th August, so we definitely wouldn’t be waiting around for that long and would just have to get on with our trip (and get the coils changed somewhere else).

We decided to lift spirits by going out for breakfast at a nice nearby cafe. It had a huge toy area and the girls were in their element playing and having fun. We had to remind them to eat and what we actually came to the cafe for, ha ha. It was nice to drink a great coffee also – that makes a difference to mama’s and papa’s mood in the mornings.

Then Chris was off to get the final bits on the car completed since we weren’t waiting for the coils. We also did the last bit of chores at camp, as we knew we wouldn’t have power or water for a few days. My hardest task was going to be having enough food to last us until our next stop but biding by the quarantine rules of WA which includes no fresh fruit or veg. That’s a tricky one!

The playground across the road at the art centre was our savior of sanity again and the girls let off a lot of energy there.