#3 - Make Dinosaur Necklaces with a Dutch Girl on a Train

What’s the best way to pass time on a 25-hour train ride from Adelaide to Alice Springs?

Read a book?
Listen to music?
Heroine?

All fine options, but the number one answer is…

1) Freak out the nice Dutch girl sitting next to you by making dinosaur necklaces!

That’s right, pulling a spool of yarn, scissors, and six different plastic animal finger puppets out of your bag and then proceeding to stab holes in the sides of their heads and stringing yarn through them to make a necklace IS in fact the best way to pass time on a long train trip.

It’s something I’ve never done and it was a pretty sweet time. I have a few new rad necklaces to show for it, and I made a friend on the trip which made things way more enjoyable than just sitting quietly the whole time.

Dinosaurs may be extinct (prove it science!) but they are alive and well as fashion accessories. I call em "Jurassic Jewelry."

Side note new experience #3.1 – Shower on a moving train.



The bathroom on-board had a little shower head that everyone else was too weirded out to use. But after a surprisingly restful night's sleep I had a shower in the morning and it was lovely – hot water, gently swaying train car – weird experience, but a nice first.

Take that again science. 2-0.