A sojourn in Canberra

We spent the weekend visiting friends in Canberra, which is about 3 hours drive from Sydney. It is the capital city of Australia, and we always enjoy visiting Canberra. It was very cold compared to Sydney (about -5 degrees Celcuis overnight) so we rugged up and enjoyed our friends’ fire.

My husband, our friend Danny, and I went for a bit of an antiques crawl on Saturday, and I bought some gorgeous little vintage paper needle packets. (The packets are made of paper, not the needles!)

We also visited the Australian Institute of Sport for the sake of Rainbow Girl. We knew that the Australian women’s Olympic gymnastic team was “in camp” at the AIS currently, training for the Olympics. We went on a tour of some of the facilities, and were thrilled to be able to watch them training in their sparkly leotards for about half an hour. They looked great, and I think Rainbow Girl found it very inspiring!

Back home now, with lots of orders to fill, and friends to have over for meals this week. I almost finished knitting The Reader’s shrug too. I just got her to try it on, and it fits a lot better than I thought it was going to – I thought it was going to be way too short!