Alice Springs - Day 25, 3/5/2016

I was up early this morning to get the car into the mechanics to replace the CV boot and after a bit of waiting around in town it was all done. Total cost of the parts was $17… pity the labour wasn't so cheap.

With all the repairs out of the way we headed back into Alice for some lunch and to restock all of our food and supplies as tomorrow we head off to Ayers Rock. Later in the day we took the kids down for a swim and some time of the water slide, whilst in the pool we met another family who are also travelling for 6 months. Sonia and Matthew are from Nanano in Qld and as it turns out Matthew plays tennis with Anna's uncle Neville. They joined us for happy hour and it was great getting to know them and exchange travel plans.

No photo's from today sorry as we didn't really do anything that exciting.

Distance Traveled = 83 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 25,028 km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 168



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