We started the day with no alarm which was nice. After a shower, we found a place for breakfast. Eggs, holandaise sauce on crumbed potato, brussel sprouts, carrot…interesting take on a benedict.

We went back to the hotel to do our teeth, and then made our way in to Floriade. We had seen a shuttle bus but we ended up just walking – it only took 20 minutes or so. We walked around for a couple of hours, taking photos and looking at all the tulips and flowers. We saw a bit of Lake Burley Griffin as well, so walked around the outside and back for a short distance. We had some lunch and a beer inside Floriade, which was just some dumplings – not our best choice :).

I was feeling a bit tired, so went back to the hotel for a brief siesta. Then we drove in to the war memorial. We didn’t have a booking, but were still able to go in. We totally lost track of time looking at the exhibitions inside – they started closing on us! So we had to cut the end of our tour short.

We then went for a drive up to the lookout and I had a hot chocolate. We then drove to the Black Mountain lookout (the Telstra Tower) and had a look from there, although couldn’t see as much from that one. So we then made it back to the hotel.

For dinner we went to Akiba. It was a much better meal, although we probably had too much. We asked for the “Feed Me” special, for $60 each. At the start it was a really nice pace with small serves, but then they came out with a few dishes at once, including rice, and we got quite full and couldn’t finish everything.

We came back to the hotel, watched some TV and went to bed.