Canberra and Hunter Valley

I am currentally in New Zealand updating my blog! I figured before i got into detail about New Zealand I would update on my last few days in Australia before I got here!
On thursday I went to the capital Canberra. We first went to the Floriade(spelling?)  which was this beautiful flower festival! After a stop there we headed over to the National Museum of Australia! Since two girls decided to get on the bus late we had our visit cut short at the museum but it was still a great place to explore and learn about Australian history! After the museum we went to the Parliment House and got our own tour. It is a beautiful building and parliment was actually in session when we were there. After the Parliment House we drove past the embassys. The US has the biggest one in Canberra. We then went to the War Memorial which was probably one of my favorite stops of the day. There was just so much to see and videos to watch. I learned alot about Australians in different wars. The we loaded up the bus and had the longest ride home ever.

at the flower festival

an artist was painting these along the water

this was made out of oranges

so many gnomes!

outside the national museum

Parliment House

war memorial

On Friday we went to Hunter Valley. This is where wine is produced in Australia. It was a nice relaxing day visiting wine factories and trying lots of different types of wine.

watching them make fudge

yum

found my favorite poptarts from back home

vineyard

where they made wine

wine tasting