Well we have been travelling all over the place the last few days, exploring and adventuring and more.

We discovered a miniature railway just up the road from our house which runs on Sundays so we took the boys up there for a train ride. In Wagga the miniature railway was an outing loved by J and this one will be no different. It's a fantastic set up, the railways went everywhere, lots of bridges and tunnels and the trainride was about 15 mins. Only downside was that it started to rain on us, luckily it was just as the ride was ending. I'm not sure if it rains here a lot or if its just been the past few days, but we've seen more rain in the past 3 days then we have in the past year. 

Then we went to the local shopping centre (which is huge) and the boys were so excited to find that each level has a free indoor playground for them to play on.

Today we went out to the beach at St Kilda and had long walks along the sand. The boys were going to get in and have a splash but there were lots of jelly fish washed up on the sand so they decided not to get in.  After we were all beached out we headed over to a yarn shop for me.  I think I've restrained myself quite well; we've been here nearly a week and this is the first yarn shop I been to - mainly because most of them are closed for a few weeks over xmas/new year, but that's not the point :)

I did pack socks to finish off and but the pattern is too complicated to do while talking/driving/training/traming etc so I picked up some pretty sock yarn and started a plain pair of ribbed socks. As we're thinking of heading into the city to do more sightseeing tomorrow, they'll come in handy for the train and tram.

Kylie mentioned a one per month challenge she has found here and it sounds like a great idea (linking isn't working for me at the moment, I'll update them later)

◦choose a cookbook per month and try to cook one new recipe per week (or at least just one recipe per month if four gets too challenging)

◦choose a craft book per month and make at least one item from the book

I'm more interested in the new recipes side of it, now that J has finally decided to explore new tastes I want to expand my recipe base a bit more.

Tonight's recipe was a new one - Creamy Gnocchi with Bacon and Pesto. It was very yummy and will be definately be added to the favourites list.