Enlighten

On Saturday night after dark we went and looked at the lit-up buildings for Canberra's enlighten festival. It was a beautiful late summer night - warm but not hot - and lots of people strolling about with kids and dogs. This is Parliament House with its reflection in the pond out the front.

There was a music/food/beer area down by the lake but because of COVID they had limited numbers and we couldn't get in. So it felt a bit like we were watching the cool kids have fun, but that's OK. Number one had a physics test to do by 10pm so it was never going to be a late night ... uni is proving interesting but having to get the brain functioning again after a year off is a bit of a learning curve! And the maths is apparently very hard ... poor baby gets no help from me with maths. This is Old Parliament House which was very cleverly done.

And a terrible selfie to prove that we do actually go out sometimes. 

It has been a good week but a bit tiring after such a fabulous holiday. Yesterday we did something very grown up and went and saw a financial planner (for the first time ever) to see if we can actually afford to retire sometime in the next decade. It was very interesting and very encouraging - we were lucky in the time we started working and are in a very good government superannuation scheme. We have always put the maximum in, and stuck with our dull government jobs over the years, and will have decent pensions, which is lovely. Boring, but lovely.