I’m now at the tail end of my flight to Melbourne, breakfast is about to be served and we are set to land in 1 hr 45 mins. It looks to be a quick flight (relatively) It was scheduled to land 6.45 and we’re currently looking at 5.50. Should give me time to get my duty free and hopefully some coffee in the Qantas Club before boarding for Perth. Anywho, picking up Sunday morning. After not enough sleep I woke up, transferred my washing to the dryer got ready and headed over to the Closing Ceremony i was running a bit late, but I forgot that there’s always the 15 min pre ceremony video so it was fine.
The ceremony was a bit shorter than usual which was good, it always takes a while to get through all of the results. Australia had some good results in the top 10 of many competitions. After that it was driving bak to housing pack up say goodbye and get ready to go. It took me a bit longer this time but I wasn’t ready to leave until right on 1 (when we had to be out). This wasn’t a big deal as I couldn’t get into my accommodation until 4 and it was less than a 2 hour drive.
After saying farewell and see you next year I headed back to target to stock up on some tanning oil/sunscreen products that they just don’t seem to have in Australia 😞 Then I visited the Starbucks at Target and got one of my pretty standard orders – Iced latte and pumpkin loaf. I worked out a route that took me a bit past my accommodation but landed me at Walmart and near another Starbucks! At Walmart I was looking for more tanning oil/sunscreen products as Target didn’t have what I wanted. I had slightly more luck at Walmart although not exactly what I was after. Then I went to Starbucks and this time got one of my other favourite orders – Strawberry Açai Refresher with Lemonade. Then across to Turkey Run State Park arriving at my accommodation about 15 mins after checking opened 😉
You may recall that I visited there last year although I was only there for an hour or two and I wanted to spend more time. I even posted some pictures from last year if you look back through my posts. This is where I was staying and few shots of my room.



The planning of my US holidays is always a little bit challenging. I want to make the most of my time, but IC also takes some time to recover from. It’s a tricky balance knowing what to do after IC as I want to do touristy stuff but I also want to rest and sleep! At any rate I decided to try and make the most of my time so I picked a couple of the shorter hikes to do and headed off. It had rained a lot recently and as a lot of the trails are old stream beds it was very muddy & wet, but still very beautiful. My next post will include some photos. Even though the weather was fairly mild at 25 degrees you can still work up a pretty good sweat. According to my apple watch tracking I did 1.85km and gained 61m of altitude on that hike.
I got back to my room, showered and headed down to have dinner at the on site restaurant. I arrived just before 7, knowing they closed at 8, but apparently being a Sunday they closed early. I couldn’t get what I wanted but I managed to get take away soup and salad bar which wasn’t to bad and I ate in my room. I wasted way to much time trying to get my devices to talk to the TV and in the end gave up and watched Chicago Fire on my iPad! Then it was a fairly early night as I was still pretty tired.
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