Monday - Richmond

We had planned to go to Cadburys today but seeing it was such a lovely day we decided to head to the historic town of Richmond instead. We drove around looking at the old buildings and stopped for a bit of a wander near the old Richmond Bridge Then we went to Richmond Maze. This is a great way to exercise without getting bored. I wandered round and round and round the maze. found lots of dead ends, kept going round in circles and had lots of fun. We all split up and went our own ways - in the first maze Tony found the middle first followed by Tasha, Kyle and I evnetually got there. In the second, bigger maze Kyle found the dragon first but Tasha was first to the centre of the maze. Then we had to find our way back through both mazes to get out again. The kids both love mazes and this was heaps of fun.

Next stop was Old Hobart Town. This is a model village made as an exact replica of Hobart in the 1820's. This was a fascinating walk through history and the detail was wonderful. The kids had fun looking for certain miniatures that they were told were hidden in the village and only had to go around 1 1/2 times to find them all. There was lots of historical facts and it was very interesting to see the difference between Hobart then and now.

Still in Richmond we then moved to the Richmond Gaol. The solitary cells freaked out both kids but Tasha was very intrigued by how everything worked and explored every nook and cranny of the gaol.

We were thinking of going to a wildlife park but it started to rain then so we headed back to the motel and had an afternoon of Uno and card games.

We then went out for dinner to Fish Frenzy on Elizabeth st Pier. We went there last time we were in Hobart and the food was lovely and they didn't let us down this time either. Yum yum.