ADELAIDE

DAY 96 – ADELAIDE                                                             Thursday, 6^th October

Enjoying an ice cream at Glenelg

In Rundle Street Mall

Tessie is so kind to ALL animals

Riding a pig is one thing we hadn't done on our holiday

I have got my money on Bridgie

Racing "leaf boats" in the Botanical Gardens

David and Beth at the Botanical Gardens

Well, it is actually 18^th October today but I have had so many people say “You haven’t finished the blog!” that I thought I would get down and finish the last two days!  Well, woke up and had nowhere to go on the Thursday!  Have to laugh really!  We had a relaxing morning.  The kids loved zooming around on their scooters around the caravan park while I cut David’s hair and trimmed his beard (wow, I could make a business out of this!).  David then, as positive as always, set about making our day in Adelaide as exciting as it could be – while his wife mopped around just wanting to be home.  It is the problem when you are a control freak like me.  Everything had been intricately planned and had gone like clockwork … until the penultimate day!! 

Anyway, we drove into Glenelg in our jazzy new Skoda wagon and hopped on the tram to the city.  We hopped off at Rundle Street mall and wandered up the mall, watching street performers and doing a little shopping.  We made it all the way to the Botanical Gardens which were nice (but not a patch on Melbourne’s, or Kings Park in Perth!) and then hopped on the tram and back to Glenelg where we had lunch on the beach, watching some of the local ladies being spoken to rather sternly by the local constabulary!  A large ice cream later and back to the caravan park where the kids again spent time cruising around on their scooters.  We packed up most of the van in preparation for our early morning and slept well looking straight at our beautiful new painting which needed to be in the van for protection!