After waking up, and a quick shower, we wandered around to find somewhere for breakfast. I had a benedict, which was nice, but a bit too much ham. We then returned to the hotel to do our teeth and plan the day.

We drove to the National Gallery and parked the car. We then enjoyed a nice walk along the lake to the library; despite it being cold it was quite nice in the sun. We had 20 minutes to kill, and then did an 11.00 tour of the library. It was great! Especially going in some “behind the scenes” areas, and seeing an old “archive” room which had a couple of old computers, a card catalog, and other old relics. We stayed for a while afterwards to look around the reading room.

We walked back to the National Gallery to have some lunch. Then we walked around the National Gallery to check it out. The contemporary art area was pretty dull – I’ll never understand how something which I could put together could be called “art”. But then looking at some 100+ year old oil paintings were amazing.

We got the car out of the carpark, and drove to Parliament House. We found a 1 hr free parking zone, so took that and walked around Parliament House. We went in to the House of Representatives, and the Senate, rooms, amongst other areas. We also caught lift to the roof and had a walk around the top, looking back to the War Memorial. There were some beautiful views. We also found a room which had a lego model of parliament house, which was extremely fascinating!

We got back in the car, and went for a drive out to Lake George. It was about 35km, and worth a look. We bought some donuts for a late 3-sies on our way back to the hotel. Then it was off to the pub for a beer, before italian for dinner. We couldn’t eat all of the pizza and pasta we bought, so took half the pizza back to the hotel room to eat for breakfast tomorrow, and went to the supermarket to buy some juice to go with it.