NT here we are!!

We have finally got to where the sun shines!!!
We arrived in Alice Springs Last night - happy birthday dad - and have settled back into our swags. The kids have finally found lost of kids to play with, so today we have not seen them since 7.30 except for food.
Our travels have been good - after Victor Harbor and our fairy penguin tour, we continued around the Flueriu Peninsula and camped at Moana Beach, which is really a southern suburb of Adelaide - fabulous beach that is surrounded by red cliffs. We did lots of walks and shell collecting. Great lawn here to, which has been a change.
From there we skited around Adelaide, and had a great coffee at Glenelg, decided the city was not the place for a dirty car and kids, and contiuned north. We discovered the St Kilda Adventure Playground and made us realise what a "nanny state" NSW really has become. The slides and tunnels were great, full of risk and real adventure. After burning some energy, we travelled to the Yorke Peninusla where we camped on the water again at Port Broughton. The boys went fishing on sunset and caught 5 yellow tailed whiting - again, just a couple of cms too small, although Dek was sure we could have kept a couple.
We managed to hear a weather forecast that was not great, so we bundled up early just before the rain, and headed for Port Augusta. We are soft, so booked into a very glamourous apartment and enjoyed watching the rain fall outside. The little laundry in the apartment has never worked so hard, as we set up the Ward chinese laundary, and washed a weeks worth. From Port Broughton, we did the long kms to Coober Pedy. This was the first part of the trip that the kids pulled out the DVD and DS machines. We booked into an underground motel, and also went on an opal mine tour. Another highlight for the lids, as they 'noodled' through the heaps and found opal chips.
We bunkered down for the longest stretch so far - 760kms to Alice. The boys journals are very brief about yesterday - sat in the car all day!! We got to Alice in time to set up, and last night went on a star gazers tour, with the lids getting to see the moon through a very large telescope.
Summary - All good, the weather is now great - finally getitng the shorts and T-shirts out, the kids are well, and we have surprising survived being in close confines for nearly three weeks. the original budget has been thrown out the window, so we are now working out where we can regroup the budget with a lot of bush camps.