Dubbo Dallying

We checked in around 7:30pm on Friday night

Given Nick had worked most of the July school holidays, we decided to take advantage of his few days off just before the start of term.  Time was tight as Nick had to work on Friday morning - and was due back for another shift on Tuesday.

Due to those time constraints, we decided against camping and instead booked a studio cabin at Dubbo City Caravan Park (via a discount accommodation site).  The cabin was a bit bigger than our tent - and had air conditioning, which was very much appreciated when the temperature dropped considerably overnight! 

As usual, it was a budget trip.  I had done much food preparation before departure and we traveled with one of our Engels running as a freezer, full of our weekend provisions.  Before checking in we made a brief supermarket stop to purchase ice-cream.  It was just as well we had the Engel, the freezer compartment of the small cabin fridge was almost completely iced over!

It had been three years since our last Dubbo experience and we were all looking forward to spending several days at the Zoo (again, courtesy of our annual ZooFriends passes).  Prior to collecting Nick, we had visited one of our local libraries - viewing a school holiday science show and borrowing some books and DVDs to bring away with us.  Erin and Vaughan were in charge of DVD selection and choose two of the Lion King movies, in keeping with our zoo theme!