Mad Trip Day 20: Canberra

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I got to meet misswinterhill's pets today. I fell in love with one of her dogs, even though I don't like dogs, and I'm not sure who was happier out of me and her cat about the cuddling. I miss cats; they're so easy to please.

We then went out to a radio telescope place with an awesome museum. It's a lovely drive out through the country, alongside a rather swollen river (there was a tent in a tree and signs of flooding across the road), and the place is hidden in this beautiful valley that shades it from phone and radio signals which could interfere. Whilst we were wandering around the museum - with me looking up in confusion every so often at the awesome soundtrack to the documentary they have on a loop - we were approached by one of the volunteers at the museum, who could tell us loads more than the displays did because, well, he worked on the missions. For real! He was a technician, and he has the only Snoopy award badge in Australia, which he got for disobeying orders from higher up, with the permission of his direct superiors, to find the solution to a problem and probably save lives. He was so cool!

Slightly odd, but really cool. And he now spends lots of his time taking photographs of school groups and families, so that Dad can be in the photo as well.

After the telescopes, misswinterhill took me to the National Museum of Australia - which is awesome and free - and we had a look at the Australian Journeys section. Among the exhibits were a dress which was probably woven in Yorkshire and a recording of hymns in Welsh.

Home via Aldi, and then we had dinner and watched the first two episodes of Sherlock. OMG you guys I'm in love. Seriously. I want Moffat's brain babies. I'm not going to be writing fic of it, because I don't have the mind to write mysteries like that, and I don't think I can ship it. Not yet, anyway. Maybe with a full series to get my teeth into.