Sovereign Hill
We almost forgot to tell about our awesome trip to Sovereign Hill the other week with the Snells. The kids had no idea that we were going, just that we were having an Adventure – until of course we got to the V-line station, Ash saw the destination was Ballarat and said “are we going to Sovereign Hill?”.
It was well worth the trip especially when you catch the train up as we just kicked back the whole time and listened to music, chatted and did puzzles. I haven’t been to Sovereign Hill since I was a kid and Jase & Connor had never been so we all really enjoyed seeing all the different machines, mines, soldiers, and other characters – with Ash enjoying telling us which were the “good bits”.
Gold panning was fun (Mark was quite good at this), the mine tour was quite cool and the musket firing was very funny especially when we got the kids arrested afterwards (didn’t get away quick enough though). Recommendations are to see the battery running, the sweet making and leave plenty of time to pan for gold (as we sucked). We also got Wanted posters for the kids.
