Mildura...

We have arrived after a false start this morning, Greg left his phone in the room....lucky he remembered before we had gone too far....think we nearly got to Gepps Cross.......so we turn around we did and  went back to the hotel...

Got to Mildura late so haven't really had a chance to have a good look around...we did go for a walk up the street and I ended up getting my hair done to go out for dinner tonight....just don't look at my clothes....I did try and find something with no luck as the shops were shutting....oh well they hopefully won't be looking at me...

There are so many grape vines along the way......and a massive winery I think it was Kingston Wines......just huge....we did see a sign for port @ $5 a litre....I was driving so we didn't stop...can't imagine what it would have been like...

We had some of the peacharines in the car with us so had to eat them before we got to the quarantine box...it must have looked funny us shoveling them in...

Sorry just a quick one  as I have a date with Stefano tonight and am nowhere near ready...

The cafe we went into last night for a drink...

Meringues at the bakery at Truro...

Sign on the cash register at the bakery.

Grape vines 

Bad blurry photo I know, but this was at Maccas at Renmark, the dog was a Autism Assistance Dog...the young boy was tied to the dog and the Mum had the dog's lead...South Australia is the only one doing this type of dog...the dog was 3 years old, looked like she was bombproof....her name was Danzie...

Bridge over the Murray River...

Big Dunlop tyre on the Sturt Highway...

Ethan always drives the last 100 klms, this was as we were coming into town...the traffic behind him...

Bet they were happy when we turned off....

Adelaide

Had a great day in Adelaide today caught the tram down to Glenelg to have a bit of a look around...such a pretty place...came back up into the city as Ethan had decided that he wanted to buy a camera with his Christmas money, there was a camera that he wanted at Harvey Norman that was reduced heavily but the city store didn't have all of the package, so I drove him out to Noarlunga to pick it up...a 60 klm round trip....
Came back to the hotel and again we had not stopped for lunch, while he played around with his camera I popped into the Central Markets to pick something up to eat...they had some amazing things the fruit and veg was fabulous...lots of different meats...was wandering down the aisles and came across Poh, I was a bit starstruck as I have always thought that she should have won the first series of Masterchef...had a photo taken with her at her shop and she was just lovely....so were all the staff...as I left, there was another lady waiting with her son...she said to me if you can do it so can I...
Went back to the Aboriginal shop to buy a tablecloth that I liked, I wanted a different one but they didn't have it in our table size...got the one that I did want as a tablecloth in a table runner size and picked up another table runner that was on clearance. So half of my Christmas money got spent as well...
Walked back up to the city to pick up a few things that Dan wanted to get, we did wait for the tram but when it pulled up it was packed so we decided to walk up there...found one of those $2.80 shops and picked up a few things, one of them was some Ritz bits little ritz biscuits with a vanilla centre...they are very good, can't show you cause they are all gone....
Had dinner at Pepper Lunch it was so so good, I had pepper chicken with no pepper...I know it is not right is it...Dan had Pepper steak and Greg had pepper prawns, Ethan went back to the room as he wanted to watch the cricket and he was going to get Subway which was closed so he sent me a message to get him something on our way back...he ended up having the same as what I had but back in the room...The boys have changed rooms as their air conditioner was playing up and they couldn't fix it...they are now only a few rooms away from us...we are heading out after the cricket for Ethan to have a play with his camera....off to Mildura tomorrow...

Out the front of our hotel...

Tram coming down the tracks...

How cool is the grass on the inside of the tracks...

Inside the tram to Glenelg.

Yep this was a tad confusing, one was for the bike lane...

Rundle Mall.

Lolly shop in one of the arcades.

Dan had Poutine ( a Canadian dish) for lunch, it was hot chips on the bottom, then cheese curd and then bolognese sauce, parmesan and parsley on top...

Central market flower stall.

Meats a hanging...

Hey Mandy look at these, Peacharines....no plumcots but these are pretty damn good...

Poh at her shop with moi...

Bread crocodile...

Pretty sure this is the Town Hall...

Piggies in The Mall...

Super cool combi in The Mall...

Love a good bow, and they had so many...

The button shop....

Same shop but with the knitted teapot covers...

Love a light box but @ $400 not likely...

This is the florist display,  the flowers were all put away for the night... 

Ladies undies in the $2.80 shop..."Ladies Shorts" then underneath that "Everyone has romantic feelings" what the!!!!

Don't you love a good arm cover...

Toilet paper cover...have you ever heard of the toilet being called a " Relax Room"...

Gotta love a good translation.

Dan wanted me to buy him a That....

Bit out of order but it's a tram of course...

Winner, winner chicken dinner...Pepper Lunch, there is one in Sydney...if you get a chance try it it's really really good...

Tablecloth at the bottom, both the runners at the top...

The fabric is screen printed in Kashmir, the Aboriginal designs are owned by the artist....

And just cause I can.....here we are again....

Penguins and other bit's....a bit out of order....

Dan and I went for our nightly walk last night and on the way back he decided that we should do the penguin tour, the others didn't want to go so it was just the two of us....when we got there the guy said that there was only one penguin spotted the night before and that we may not see any.....as they are all out at sea fattening themselves up ( that must be what I am doing, going to moult) to come in and moult...they stay in for 3 weeks when they moult and as they are not waterproof until they finish their moult they can't go out to sea to feed....Usually I am the bearer of doom when we are trying to spot an animal ( try platypus, they hide as soon as I am looking for them)....anyway we walked down the coast where they usually are and back again and then bingo we heard one, off we all went in search of it.....it was so windy and very cold but we soldiered on and we were rewarded with not one but three penguins....the guy was pretty happy as he was very concerned that we wouldn't see any...they usually come in around February for their moult and then in Spring to lay their eggs...it takes the babies 8 weeks to be able to go out to sea....because of the big seal colonies there the penguins are getting fewer than in previous years....

Because it is dark and you need a red torch to see them and not hurt their little eyes the photos turn out like this.

Mulberry picking, that was from three of them, so juicy and delicious...Greg thought that Dan had fallen over and cut himself....

The boys room here in Adelaide.

Windy much....

Cassowary cam...

A better photo of the panda...

Hello gorgeous one...

Sea otters...

Tawny frogmouth Owl sitting on a nest...those eyes are just beautiful...

Well goodbye Kangaroo Island....in the other ferry it has a deck on top of the cars....this one doesn't as it can take the big trucks...that means that the seating on the deck isn't as good as the smaller ferry...this ferry is the Spirit of Kangaroo Island...