Stanley & the Big Merino - Fri 26th Feb

Stanley's stay at school overnight wasn't that scarey, and he got to listen to what the class was learning about. The class was learning about words starting with the letter M. He noticed that all of the kids were wearing blue and red clothes - that's the color of the school uniform that the children wear. As a treat, the kids got to have lunch at the canteen today - normally they bring in their lunch from home.

After school, Elissa picked up Stanley and the kids from school, then Adam from his work, and then drove up to Sydney. Luckily the Easts have a big car, because it was a long (3.5 hour) drive. The East's car also has a DVD player, which means that he and the children could put on headphones and watch movies while they drove. They got to watch the movie Garfield, a tv show about a man who travels in time called Doctor Who, and some Micheal Jackson music videos - Jayde is a big Michael Jackson fan. One was for a song called Thriller - that was bit scarey for Stanley - it had monsters called zombies in it. He and Jewel were both abit scared of that one.

Along the way they stopped at a town called Goulburn - about an hour away from Canberra. In Goulburn they have a building that looks like a giant sheep - called the Big Merino. A merino is a type of sheep. The building is designed for tourists to find out about how important wool is to that part of Australia - there are a lot of sheep stations (farms for sheep) in Australia. Jayde, Jewel and Stanley had a photo outside the front of the Big Merino. It is so big, you can hardly see the girls holding Stanley in the photo.

When they got up to Sydney, the family stopped at Adam's brother's house. There, they had a delicous barbecue dinner with Jon, his wife Glenda, daughter Natasha and grandson Joshua. After dinner, it was time to go to the motel to sleep, as it was going to be a busy day tomorrow.