Roadtrip - Birthday Bliss

Nothing beats the fresh smell of eucalyptus

The drive back to Alice
The other Spaz got to celebrate her birthday by waking up at Uluru, collecting some newly sprouted eucalyptus leaves and then traveling back the 445km to Alice Springs. Spaz played chauffer and it was a fun drive (who would have thought that after 3800km ((with 445km to go)) and 12 days of together travelling around in a car that we could still be having fun?!?!, but we were). It may have been the case that madness had taken over :-) 

The mad driver

Getting all arty :-/

We got to stop and see Dinky the singing dingo at Stuarts Well Roadhouse :-) Unfortunately Dinky is now 12 years old and a little arthritic so he doesn’t sing anymore but we still managed to see him (and avoid the 4 min dvd presentation that his owner was keen to show us). We picked up our last on the road Chocolate milk and Iced Coffee and hit the road to the next rest stop for lunch. Lunch was a grand meal of pasta with mushroom sauce; lovingly prepared by Spaz in the presence of a hundred zebra finches, win!

Dinky

The milk addiction (so good!)
20% of your daily caloric intake :-)

Lunch

 When we got back to Alice Springs the Todd River was flooded (another fairly rare event). A swim in the pool, a few beers and dinner on the terrace made for a truly great birthday :-) When we got back to Melbourne I got to do it all again and with chocolate ripple cake :-) win!

The flooded Todd River

Chocolate ripple cake! Yum!