Today we are off to Sovereign Hill, which is a recreated town in the style of the late 1880, gold rush time. Very cool. Started of the morning with a visit to the local bakery where they still cook the food using tradditonal ways and in a wood/ coal fired oven. Yum (and no this is not a tour of Australia by stomach!). Then we wandered up the main street checking out the Lolly shop, the pub (does sell beer but too early at the moment), Jewellery store (Charlotte had to purchase),  blacksmith (damn hot work here), horse stables, and clothes shop. All contained older style good and clothes etc. And all staffed by people dressed in period costumes.

We attended the Musket firing, the marching of the Red Coats, the demonstration of the wonderful and new battery (For lighting dynamite of course). Also did some 10 pin bowling in the bowling alley made entirely from wood.

After Lunch we did an underground mine tour, involving a cable car, a walk in the mine, and a mine train. Kids loved all this. Then a quick look around the Chinese village (to see how hard the locals made life for them), and it was 5pm and time to leave.

As we left a quick tour around the Gold Museum where there was some good examples of gold coins, nuggets, and other historical information on Ballarat.