The day got off to a bit of a slow start - the parents lost the Movieworld tickets and spent nearly an hour searching for them. In the end they gave up and left anyway, figuring they'd turn up eventually, even if we had to use them between now and next year.
The trip out of Sydney was fairly uneventful. We wanted to stop at the Mooney Mooney Creek Bridge lookout and take a photo, but it was completely closed off. Mum said the trees had been growing up for a while and the bridge was obscured, so they probably thought it was a bit silly having a road to it open.
We stopped for lunch at Rutherford to visit my grandfather's cousin Leonie and her husband Brian.
Attempted photos at Bayswater and Liddell power stations, and at a lookout north of Tamworth, but a pretty uneventful photo day.
Arrived in Armidale and checked into a motel before heading off to my cousin's place for dinner. Actually two of them were there with their partners so it was a good night. They have a telescope which we used to spot Jupiter and four of its moons and saw a couple of the bands on it which was awesome. Then we looked at the moon which was rising. At the 100x lens it took up all of the screen and then some. Saw a stack of craters at the edgeline which was amazing. Finally looked at binary star. Then decided we should probably head off back to the motel.
The equivalent view we saw through the telescope on the left, with labels up the other way on the right
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