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11.07.19

 After going to Hoppers Crossing the real road trip had started. The trip from Hoppers Crossing to Adelaide was our longest drive. We drove all day. By the end of the day, we were pretty tired. The sketch book that Mum bought came in handy. It has 80 pages in it, but in a few days, I’ve already used about 20. That is because there is lots to draw. Driving to Adelaide meant we passed lots of different landscapes. There were a few cows, but after that there were more sheep. Surprisingly, the grass actually got greener, and near the end of thee trip, there was lots of green grass that I didn’t feel like I was in Australia. In those times, there was only a few trees on the horizon and it looked like a fairy tale land, because in Russia there was lots of trees and not as green grass. Near the start of the trip, we saw a rainbow. That whole day, we were driving on the Western Highway (it is a very long highway)

. For lunch, we stopped at a town called Stawell. I knew we had hit the country because the pie place was one of a kind, not some company thing. There was some pretty good pies, and the wall had lots of comments written on it. That was pretty cool. I found a Canadian flag, and a spot where two AFL teams were battling by crossing out and rewriting each other. There was a brochure of what to do in the town and nearby. There were some painted silos you could visit, which we didn’t go to. But even looking at the pictures was pretty cool. There were some silos with Aboriginal women faces on them and a starry night in the background. Another group had some farmers on it. one had a picture of an old wise-looking man. On one page, it had the events happening in the town. A lot of it was accossiated with food. I guess when you live in a town, food must be very entertaining. We passed through a town called Horsham. It takes a lot of effort to pronounce it right.

When we stopped to go to the toilet, there was this big pink lake we could see. It was very pretty, and on the edge of it, I could see some pale sort of blue water. When we were driving, I spotted this tree which had a branch that had leaned over, then it started growing more branches from that branch, and those smaller branches were pointing towards the sky. I don’t remember seeing trees like this before, probably because they don’t get much of a chance to live in the city (if a tree was leaning over to somewhere they didn't want it to, it would look like it wasn't a typical tree and they wouldn't want it). They grow like that because they need sunlight. Then I looked for more trees that looked like that, and found a few more. In the evening I saw a very beautiful cloud which I drew a picture of. God painted it much better, because he is the best painter in the world. Arielle said one time that she saw in a vision God painting the sunset, and then he told her go outside to see it, and it had hardly changed.

When we got to the hotel, it was the same hotel we had gone to before when we went on holidays, and it was coincidentally the same room. God has such a funny sense of humour.