UQ Centenary

No blogs lately as I've had to devote all my free time to taxes. I don't have all that much free time as if Rowan is awake - he chases me around and around. He's getting fast too. If I try to sit down with the computer, he comes along and bangs on it. Most annoying.

We came back home on Saturday - a six hour drive from the town of 1770 - we had to come home as Cyp had to help out at the University of Queensland Centenary celebration.

He headed off early on Sunday morning and we slowly got ready and headed out ourselves. True to form - we got there right at lunch time.

We hit the German Haus for some bratwurst and also tried the latest in Japanese fast food - yet to arrive in Canada - rice wrapped in think slices of salty pork. Cyp has decided he wants to open the first Cdn franchise. I'm not so sure - it was better than the hotdog but...

After eating we kinda wondered what we could do next. There were lots of tours happening, but none of them seemed that exciting for a three year old.

So we decided to try the treasure hunt that was created by Cyp's group. We got a list of clues, a map and Cyp helped me download Enigma - a QR reader (whatever the heck that is) to my iphone. We then set off to find QR codes - they look kinda like those magic eye pictures that you stare at for a while and then see something 3D. I've never been able to see the 3D. Anyway - we found one (the librarian in the law library told us where it was - dad figured out we had to go to the law library from our list of clues). I scanned the QR code with my phone (i.e. took a picture) and up popped some questions that we couldn't answer. Ok - next. We found the next QR code but after that did not have much luck. Instead of using the list of clues to find the codes, we wandered from building to building trying to spot the black and white pictures. We wandered through a party in the geology building, through the bowels of the mathematics building, through the physics building. No luck. We were getting a good feel of being lost university students though. It took me back.

As the kids were nearing meltdown, we found a couple of more codes in the Anthropology and Antiquities museum. The codes led to more questions that we had to find the answers to in the museum. Yah - that's not going to work. Ellis was clearly done for the day.

We left, came across some black stilt bugs (which struck both Ellis and Rowan dumb) and then went to tell Cyp we were leaving.

Later on he told us that only 5 people had managed to hand in the answers to the treasure hunt and only one person got the right answers. I guess that person is the winner of the Ipod Touch?

We were ineligible anyway being related to one of the creators and all.