Adelaide and beyond

The trip from Walkers Flat to Adelaide was great.  The country looks a million dollars.  We left our van at a small town in the Adelaide hills, Birdwood, and loaded our car with clothes, etc for a couple of weeks stay in Tea Tree Gully.  When we arrived at our friend's house our social life began immediately with an afternoon 13th birthday party for her grandson.  Monday did lots of washing and shopped for a while.  Our accommodation was 5 star with first class food laid on.  We were really spoilt with compulsory happy hours between 4pm and midnight most nights.  Kathy had to become the drunk police as Des and my friend tried to clear out the backlog of wines and spirits on hand.  God knows how many kilos we gained while in Adelaide, haven't been game to weigh yet.  Friday morning, we set off to take the ferry to Kangaroo Isl. to see Des's nephew and family. It was a pleasant weekend and the weather was kind to us for both crossings.  We went to see Les Miserables 25th anniversary concert movie on Tuesday evening.  It was fabulous.  Introduced Kathy's friend to Cold Rock Icecreamery.  What a mistake!!!   Wednesday we had to pack the car and sort out the mess we had in the house.  Too much space, living in a house!!  After a sad goodbye Thursday morning we left and picked up the van and it took us 1 1/2 hours to repack the car and van.  Headed off to the Yorke Peninsular to meet up with some people we first met in Cloncurry 3 yrs ago.  The country is loaded with grain and straw bales between Adelaide and Wallaroo.  We spent a cold and wet Frid., Sat and Sun with our friends, but had a lot of laughs and heaps of fun.  The weather kept us in the van most of the weekend. It was appalling.   Left Monday morning and overnighted just north of Port Pirie (still windy as hell).  Travelled to Port Augusta to enjoy the Melbourne Cup in the local club (didn't win a cent) and will start our westward journey tomorrow.  Sorry we don't have photos this time.  Will make up for it on the next blog.