Day 8 8th Jan 2010 In the tropics

Home again after our road trip inspired by the art but rather disappointed by the dining options in Canberra. Today's pics are of the very tropical environment created in our hotel - just like the gardens of Port Douglas and our rainforest resort we stayed at Mossman- very lush and not like the colder climate plants I can grow at home. The whole hotel was basically set up as a greenhouse as these plants would not survive the savage extremes of Canberra either. Very noice! The programme from the exhibit has a tropical feel to it too with the Gaugin painting on the cover. Now back to reality and the encroaching school year ... sigh

Day 7 7th Jan 2010 Getting Arty

Resident handyperson and I are currently enjoying the fine weather of our national capital and as well as keeping an eye out for Kev- our fearless leader for those of my OS readers- we are also taking in the incredible French post impressionist art exhibition at the National Gallery. I can't take pikkies in the exhibition but here is the queue before it opened - we were in the middle of the line at this point.
Of course because they had funky purple sunnies for sale in the gallery shop, someone had to buy them and our guest photographer (who should really do his own blog cos his pikkies are great) took a pic of said glasses.

My absolute favourite part of the gallery is the fog sculpture in the sculpture garden and dang it if guest photographer's shots aren't way better than mine - despite the fact I took heaps. The experience of this sculpture was perfect once again today. Just love it!