Happy (belated) Australia Day

The 2009 Australia Day long weekend has come and gone. The big news around here was the Australian cricket team losing to South Africa in a one day match at the Oval.

For Us - it was a weekend of pre-baby DIY to all the new the furniture and of course a BBQ!

I was even kind enough to let Lyn near my BBQ.

We had the traditional Australian 'Snags' & Beer for dinner

We a very healthy Ice Cream & Tim Tams for dessert.


After the BBQ - we headed down to the beach for the Australia Day Fireworks.

Heat Wave!

Well, it my first Aussie Heatwave... the temperature yesterday.. was a LOW of 33c (with a high of 44c!)

Yes, the low was 33c! And we have another 5days of 40+ to come.

Now, between the Air Conditioned Office, Air Conditioned public transport, and the Air Condition house - the weather doesn't seem all that bad. Of course, you don't want to leave your house/place of work, as it really feels like your walking into a sauna. And the normally nice cooling breeze is now an series of annoying gusts of hot wind.

However - Lyn is coping admirably, using a combination of the air con and a fan to keep cool. SO no worries there.

We had Australia day long weekend this past weekend, I've got the photos and as soon as Vista allows me to rename them, move them, and change the file size, I'll see about uploading them to the blog

D&L

PS We have a new computer.. quite swish... sadly it runs on Vista... I am so NOT a fan.. it is very slow, and real a pain in the backside when just trying to do the simplest things - and I usually don't go in for the Microsoft bashing found in the IT world.

However Vista seems to think I am stupid - double - sometimes triple - checking if I *really* want to install that file, or save a file in that location. It is not very user friendly if you have any real experience using computers! But your not hear to read about my thought on Vista!

Dave “the Motherboard Slayer”

Righty – in technical terms – our computer has crashed and gone boom!

Which of course hasn’t stopped us from enjoying the summer heat, and the cooling refreshness of the beach!

Heck, without this ‘internet’ thing to suck away all my spare time – I’ve managed to watch another series of the Sopranos (getting close to the end now!), get more exercise, read a book, and I’ve even had time to iron all my workshirts for a week!

Needless to say, we’ve not gone many places out side of Adelaide recently – but we have been trying out a few more local restaurants while we still can– Red Rooster Chicken didn’t live up to the hype! I guess you could say we are content at the moment spending our time getting to know Adelaide better.

I’m on call this week, which includes my first Australia day – so we’ll have to keep local, which means a trip to Semaphore again (same place we watched the NYE fireworks) I must admit, the amount of things happening during the summer in Semaphore has been amazing – considering it is not even the most popular of the beach ‘burbs in Adelaide (Glenelg being the busiest!) – so I think we can count ourselves lucky to have found a place to live so close.

Anyway, Lyn is doing fine, just another 2 months or so to go now.

D & L

A day in the life down under (Jan 13th)

Been quiet on the blog front recently – as things have gotten into a routine… So I give you today’s Blog – A day in the life down under (note it doesn’t always get 41c like it did today)

6:45 – Alarm goes off
6:54 – Alarm goes off again
7:03 – Alarm goes off again – get out of bed and get ready for work
7:46 – Catch train – can it really be 28c this early in the morning?
8:11 – Catch Tram – yup, it really is quite warm today
8:30 – Air Conditioned office – Nice.
10:27 – I really shouldn’t be writing a blog at the office J
12:30 – Lunch time – surf the internet.
12:35 – Doh! The Canucks lost again
17:00 – Time to go home
17:05 – Catch Tram to train
17:30 – Catch Train to tram
18:00 – Get home, change into swimwear
18:30 - Enjoy the AirCon
19:00 – Go to beach
19:10 – Splash Lyn
19:15 – Splash Lyn again!
19:16 – Run away from angry Lyn
19:45 – Leave the beach & head for home
20:00 – Barbeque outside – eat inside with the air conditioning
20:30 – Water the plants in the back garden & feed the Mosquitoes
22:00 – The Law & Order Hour!
23:00 – Time to get ready for Bed
23:15 – Too hot, put air conditioning on for 15mins
23:30 - Sleep

A day in the Sun

The first weekend of 2009 has come and gone already - and rather than just going to the beach this weekend(which we did as well), we also took in the annual Adelaide United Soccer game at the Adelaide Oval.

The soccer games are not usually played at the Cricket ground, and once a year, they host a game in town. This year the game was vs Syndey!

As you can see, with cricket grounds, a good portion of the crowd sits on the grass hills around the oval (Lyn above), and the rest are in the covered stands (below).




The game itself was won by Adelaide 2-0 - with 2 of the 3 Brazilian imports for Adeliade getting on the scoresheet.

Work is back to normal for me next week - but the summer has really only begun. We've managed to make it to the beach pretty much everyday since Christmas - I'm even a darker shade of Ghost brown than usual.

David

PS - Happy new year to everybody!