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Day 20 - Thursday 12th July 2012
Neither of us had a good night. Merv had trouble with the rocking and I was worried about my car and how the broken window was holding out. I decided that I couldn't do anything about it so I would not think about it any more. We went down to breakfast which was available until 8am. Another menu with choices. We introduced ourselves to the ladies we sat with - they were from Canberra. We both had a cooked breakfast (I could get used to this).
We found out we were running an hour late because the goods train that The Ghan had to wait at a siding for was an hour late over night. We were due to arrive in Alice Springs at about 9am.
Time goes fast when there are people to talk to.
We booked a bus trip around Alice for our Whistle Stop tour, we could get off at one location and the bus would pick us up on the next circuit. Because we were late we couldn't get off, but that didn't worry us. We were in Alice 8 years ago. We stopped at the lookout and spent 5 minutes having a look and taking photos.
It was time for lunch when we got back on the train - same great choices as yesterday.
I had some time out in our cabin for a couple of hours and Merv socialized in the lounge. Then we played a game of UNO with some of the passengers. That was good fun. Merv won - he was scoring. Then we played Make 5 with one of the passengers, before it was time for dinner.
Again, same lovely choices as yesterday.
Merv had a shower today and he dropped the soap! It wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. Ask him about his experience on the loo...
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