Canberra, "the Meeting Place"

Saturday morning we started off with our breakfast of champions at 7:45 am, (Jared eating his baked beans and spaghetti), with pancakes, eggs, cereal, toast and fresh fruit. After our hearty meal, we started off the day with a bus tour around Australia’s capital, Canberra. Our bus driver for the day, Barry, gave us all the knowledge that we ever need to know about Canberra. In doing so, Canberra has over 200+ roundabouts, and roughly 200 stoplights. Plus, Canberra means “meeting place”, and that is why it is the nation’s capital. (Sorry for all you who thought Sydney was the nation’s capital, but you’re wrong.) On our journey to our first destination, Parliament, we learned about the Australian government. The tour was very informative and gained knowledge of their government. In a way, their government is like the British. As our time came to an end at Parliament, we got back on the bus and headed to the Australian War museum. There were a few that didn’t know Australia was in wars, especially WWII. (However, I learned a few days earlier Australia was in WWII while in Lennox Head because I talked to a retired veteran of the Air Force named Gram who happened to be in WWII.) Anyways, our bus tour came to an end around 12:30pm and it was time to head back to AIS where we had the rest of the afternoon free. For some of us (Angie, Beth, Jenna, Laney, Lauren, Mandi, and I) decided to head back to the city to go shopping; ending up at the mall, Canberra Centre. The mall had the normal department stores, but also had a butcher and grocery store in side as well. As our day came to an end, we all sat down for our supper around 6:30pm, and then over to the theater to watch Muderball, which was a documentary on the 2004 USA Paralympics Rugby athletes. In all, our day was fun filled and even very educational.