Canberra CODA Conference Friday 5 October Part 2

Not finding a way round the lake, we headed back to the main road where all the traffic had been earlier. It was much lighter now and we got across the lake to Commonwealth Park - too late for Floriade.
We had only just missed it - we asked for the location of the nearest toilets from the man locking the gates. He sent us off over the hill. After asking a man in an anorak for directions to the toilet (to Gillian's great embarrassment), we found the toilets which I used. Gillian then decided she'd use them too. I said I was going to go back up the hill to take a photo of Floriade from the top of the children's play equipment. She persuaded me to stay and wait. Good job too - next minute she's calling me - she was stuck in the toilets!!
Had a little walk alongside the lake before deciding to go to the Telstra tower on Black Mountain for views of the city as the sun went down.
Gillian doesn't like heights so I went up the tower quickly on my own. At that height (over 800m above sea level) the wind was so strong it was hard to catch my breath. I took a few photos and came back to the hotel for dinner.
Had a buffet meal that was just the same as we'd had at lunch today and yesterday and were horrified to find we'd been charged $107 for two meals and two glasses of wine! Dunno what we're going to tell the boss!