November 28, 2022

This morning we chalked the Hop Scotch games again on the brick patio since it had been wiped out in the hail storm yesterday. The girls are turning out to be excellent Hop Scotch players.

Candra and the girls were having a little party with six of their school friends. The grandmas escaped for the day to the Art Galleries.

We took an Uber to the Australian National Art Gallery (ANG) and the Australian Portrait Gallery. The ANG had some very wonderful art that we liked and some other art that was questionable. We saw the ‘Blue Poles’ painting by American artist, Jackson Pollock. It was purchased by the Australian government in 1973. Today, it remains one of the gallery's major paintings. Painted in 1952, it was purchased for $1.3 million ($11 million in today's money) by the Australian government and now the near five-metre-wide work has an estimated value of about $350 million. Some of the art was spectacular and some, we think we could replicate with our grandchildren. We continued on to the National Portrait Gallery where again we saw spectacular work and some art that we didn’t quite appreciate.

After walking through the rose garden in front of the Old Parliament, we called an Uber and stopped off at the Westin Woden Mall to pick up the ingredients for a blueberry pie. On our walk back we took note that cockatoos were as numerous as crows at home.

We walked back to the Cottons and finished our 12.5 km walk for the day.