Hahndorf

Hello we are back!  Yesterday we just had a rest day around the park, washing hair, walking along the beach collecting shells and sea glass, jumping on the jumping pillow, swimming in the pool, kicking the soccer ball, crocheting and talking to our neighbours.  By the way, the sun shone all day and my bare arms made an appearance.  Oh yes as the airport is a stones throw away we parked ourselves at the end of the runway watching the air planes come and go.  Sporty Elephant was very happy and thought it was Christmas.

The night before we had visitors for dinner.  An old work friend of mine who I had not seen for well on 11 years.  Well it was just like we had seen each other yesterday, it was so lovely to see her and her lovely husband.  We just chatted away catching up on everything in each others lives.

Today after the showers of rain had cleared and we caught up on our homework we went for a drive to Hahndorf.   Hahndorf is in a very scenic location in the hills just outside Adelaide.  It has a very long main street with foodie , crafty, boutique-ie shops along either side.  It much reminded me of NSW's southern Highlands.  We had a most enjoyable day walking up and down either side of the street.  We even had a bought lunch in a little cafe.  The junior Red Elephants made their candles.  The candle shop smelt divine we smelt all the candles and I could still smell them a long time after we had left.  Soccer boy elephant took and big sniff of some smelling salts and was blowing the salt out of his nose for the next hour.  Maybe it was him who was smelling all rosey up and down the main street.

On my friends suggestion we found Melba's Chocolates factory.  Chocolate heaven!  We sampled all the samples, perused the shelves and all varieties of chocolate before we made some purchases.

Mount Lofty lookout was next on the agenda.  A great lookout that looks back out over Adelaide and out to sea, the Vincent Gulf to be precise.  Unfortunately we still had some rain clouds about so not such a good view for us , but I can imagine on a good clear day the view would be magnificent.