Adelaide Day 2

Well let me just start by saying that the Antarctic winds have been blowing cold and feirce here the last 24 hours.  Not much sleep was had last night as the caravan was rocking and rolling in all the wind like that Ketch we visited yesterday at the Maritime Musuem.  The junior Elephants had to swap beds as their bed was bearing the brunt of all the wind this meant that the roof above them and the side wall was flapping up and down.  Very Scary.

Today we visited the city.  Walking Rundle Mall, stopping to listen and watch the various buskers.  Surprisingly they liked the young lady with the Violin and a chap playing a banjo. We caught the free city loop bus to the markets and had a walk through the markets sampling some cheeses, checking out all the deli meats and nibbling on some cheesy bread sticks.

Just as our bus was leaving the markets Soccer Boy Elephant spotted a soccer shop.  We may just have to go back to visit.

We completed the day with a tour of the Adelaide Oval.  Let me make it clear my family are all sporting but I am the black sheep who likes craft.  The other three Elephants had a wonderful time on the oval tour.  I walked around pretending to be interested but was actually frozen to the bone.  We accessed the media rooms, the change rooms where I was hoping to see a fine sports man such as Mr Elephant, but no such luck  We also saw the " get ready for the game room," the recovery room and ran out onto the oval like true sportsmen and women.  There where different change rooms for the footie players and for the cricket players.  They also had  memorbilia  rooms dedicated to football, cricket and Don Bradman.  Sporty Elephants then asked the question who is Don Bradman,  I was most surprised that Don Bradman had fallen through her education both at school and at home.  I made a mentel  note that we will just have to visit the Don Bradman museum at Bowral to complete the junior Red Elelphants education on cricket.

I forgot to mention we where taken inside the old score board and I mean old scoreboard it wasn't hard to imagine dads army in there watching the game with binoculars and changing the scores with what looked like bike peddles.


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The day was ended watching airplanes fly in a jump on the jumping pillow and a hot chocolate and crumpet in front of the heater.  By the sounds of it the Antarctic winds have blown themselves out.