Canberra Turns 100!

 Each year Canberra hosts an impressive hot air balloon extravaganza, but this year it coincided with the Centennial birthday of this great capital city as well. We got out and enjoyed the weekend celebrations from 6am launches to evening fireworks.

The theme was "In So Many Words" so there were word/letter balloons and stickers and word games and activities and giant words beamed onto buildings and built with natural materials and such. Very creative and interesting and random. Like the giant ants or this lady playing the saw, above. Or the techno-disco crazy hairdo station, below. We made a day of it and had fun getting out in the crowds.

look closely at those funky hairstyles

Canberra Day

Here is some video taken at the Canberra Day Celebration held March 14th. Will and McKenna try to imitate the break dancers on stage. Each kid got to choose one carnival ride: Will the test of strength and dexterity, Kenna the high-bounce tramp, and Annie the spinner.

Later in the week, we went back to the Civic Center just after sunrise to watch the hot air balloons.

Finally, the weekend fireworks extravaganza spent with some new friends.