So here we are spending the night at Ayres Rock Resort. It took us 2 &1/4 days to get here, from Melbourne, that's a good effort.

Weather wise is has been slightly less than average, the days are mild but the nights are freezing. We knew it would be cold but come on now .....really......so cold water freezes? That's going to the extreme. We aren't on Mt Kosciusko, we are in the middle of Australia, you know, an area so hot you can actually see the heat right?

Some water dripped from our tap and froze on the way down. Now that is cold!

Jude's giraffe is having a great time. In case you don't know, Jude is our grandson, he belongs to eldest son and wife. They, for some unknown reason, would not allow us to take their 8 mth old baby away with us so we took his giraffe instead.

Jude's giraffe, we call him JG. He has the best seat in the car.
(Yes we have been asked if the giraffe is enjoying himself)

We do need to keep an eye on JG. He really likes to climb trees.

And here's JG taking in the sights of Port Augusta

But it's not all about the little guy.

Today we went to Uluru. Wow. I've never really been a big fan of the rock. So it's a big rock, so it's the biggest rock in the world, it's still just a rock right?

Wrong.

It's a BIG rock, and it's just sitting out there in the middle of Woop Woop, just passing the day. soaking up a bit of sun, lounging around. What's it doing there?  Everyone needs to see this rock and I mean everyone, so why is it still here? Why hasn't anyone moved it to ummmm Sydney or Melbourne so everyone can be as gob-smacked as we were?

So here Martin and I are (and JG) just out for drive to nowhere in particular and one of us glances over and spots Uluru. This picture was taken 120klms away from the rock. I'm telling you, it's huge!

And it changes colour. It's like the biggest mood ring ever.

The following 3 pictures were all taken around 5 minutes apart.

Sunset on Uluru

5 minutes later

And 5 minutes later.

Just awesome.

Tonight we are staying in accomodation at Ayres Rock Resort. After the very cold morning we had Martin was thoughtful enough to get us a room. $260 per night for a sub standard room with bunk beds and no TV. We do have our own bathroom though, we payed extra for that.
We even went out for dinner, a great idea, choose which piece of meat you want, you cook it yourself and they supply the salads.  $30 for lamb chops. And we still have to cook them ourselves. Yeah right, not likely. So instead we had a hamburger each that totaled $34. (yep, that's right..... for 2 hamburgers) but at least they were cooked.

Well I'm off to bed, want to make the most of our room.