COOBER PEDY

We left Lake Hart yesterday morning (relieved to be leaving the flies behind) and made Coober Pedy about 4pm yesterday.  We are staying at Riba's Underground Camping & Caravan Park.  It is about 5km from CP on the William Creek Road.  The caravans are above ground but apparently the tent sites are underground.  We haven't explored them yet.  Whilst we said goodbye to the flies at Lake Hart we said hello to a whole lot of new, friendly ones here! 
We went out for tea with Royce's cousin and her husband last night and then back to their place after to help with some family history they are working on.
We were reasonably late getting to bed last night and got woken up at 7.20am this morning with a phone call from Rory & Emma wishing me a Happy Mother's Day.  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the wonderful Mums out there! Hope you have all had a terrific day.
We headed into CP to do some shopping and had a coffee and cake, came back to the caravan park when Kate & Trevor rang to see if we wanted to meet for coffee, so back into CP for another coffee and catch up with them.  Back at the caravan park we decided to do our washing, finish putting groceries away and then catching up on emails, charging all my gadgets and fiddle-farting around.
We have been able to skype a couple of people today which was good.
On our way into CP we saw a wedge tail eagle feasting on roadkill, and on our way out of the caravan park this morning we saw two people coming in - each on a unicycle!  We think those who ride 2 wheel bikes out here are pretty crazy, but riding one wheel bikes is even worse!
We will probably spend a bit of a lazy day around here tomorrow - may go noodling - and then head off Tuesday morning for Alice Springs.  We are planning to take approximately a week to get there and I probably won't be able to blog before Alice Springs because we won't have phone/internet access for most of the journey.
Saw Marshall when skyping Rory & Emma today and he is looking well but Emma is concerned he may be getting a cold as he has been a bit off colour today.  Hopefully he is OK.  It was lovely to be able to see him and I certainly miss him a lot.  We didn't get to talk to Kane on skype because Rory & Emma had visitors so Kane had to be outside but hopefully we will get a chance to talk to him before we head off Tuesday morning.