Kennett's Excellent Adventure (part 10)

We got up early again and went to Ballarat to meet my Uncle Gavin and his wife Angela and my cousins Kaila and Toby. I was very nervous but I don’t know why. Toby who is not yet two wanted to play with me as soon as we got into the house. Kaila who is older than me was very nice. Gavin was still at work. After we had chatted for awhile Grandpa, Yia Yia, Kaila and I went to Sovereign Hill gold mining village. First we went and looked at the ice sculptures and it was minus 10 degrees in there which was very, very cold, even my kings throne was frozen.

We went for a ride on a four horse drawn carriage around the village.

Then we saw some soldiers who marched through the village and then fired their guns. It was very loud and made me jump.

After this we went down a mine where they showed us all about a mining disaster where 22 men died when a mine shaft got flooded. Most amazing was that they managed to rescue the rest of the miners a couple of days later.

Next we tried to find some gold.

After this we went back to uncle Gavin’s house.

Next we drove back to Melbourne for dinner. We had a barbecue and true to Australian rules the men cooked and we had to have a beer while we were cooking. Beer is yucky