Not too much stuff going on these days. Wednesday I had planned on venturing out from Chris’s but it ended up raining pretty much all day, so I just did some laundry and did some cleaning of Chris’s place. I mean the least I can do after him having me stay there is clean up a bit. Friday I went on a wine tour in the Barossa valley, one of Australia’s most famous wine regions. It actually ended up being a gorgeous day. The scenery was spectacular, since SA has been getting so much rain lately (I later found out that it ended up being the rainiest July in SA in something like 10 or 15 years) the hills were so green and lush, it was beautiful to be driving through. There were some very nice people on the tour as well. We stopped at an inn in Nuriootpa for lunch where we had a choice of several different main courses. I choose the kangaroo filet. My first taste of kangaroo! It was good, like beef, but a bit more red and tender. I would definitely eat that again, yum!
Monday I had the intention of jumping on the tram and heading down to Glenelg for the day. Glenelg is a town 20-30 minutes away from Adelaide, it’s right on the water and has that summer beach town kind of feeling. Since the actual city of Adelaide is inland a bit, all the city people go down to the coast on the weekend on a nice day and Glenelg is a popular place for that. I said I had the intention because the day ended up being crappy, with it being rainy all day, so I scrapped that idea and just watched tv instead. Tom and I have gotten into watching the show “Chuck.” The series premiere premiered in Australia a couple months ago and Tom and I happened to catch it and are now loving it. I never watched it in the states, but I am obsessed now, it is a fantastic show! So since Chris is a bit of a technological geek he has this whole set up with his tv hooked up to his computer that has all these movies and and tv shows on it, so he has both the 1st and 2nd seasons of “Chuck” on the computer. So in these rainy, crappy days, I’ve been watching “Chuck” and getting through season 2, it’s been a bit of a marathon actually. I was determined to get through the 2nd season! Which I did, unfortunately Chris is missing the second to last episode of the second season! Which apparently quite a bit happens, so I’ll have to either download it or wait till it airs on tv here.
I did however book a 2 day Kangaroo Island tour. KI is an island just offshore from Adelaide and I’d heard good things about it. I really didn’t want to spend $350 for 2 days but everyone said it’s worth it and I figured while I was here, I should do it or I’d probably regret it. So I booked the trip and of course had to get picked up at 6 am! Yikes! Luckily they said they’d pick me up just a block or so from Chris’s place, that way I didn’t have to get up even earlier to make my way into the city (not that Chris is that far away, but hey, the less distance I have to travel, the better).
12 years ago
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