David Down Under - Relaxing In Adelaide

This week has been pretty mellow.

Last Saturday I got to see Vlad play footy for the first time which was entertaining.  He talked a lot about playing while he was in the states so being able to see that he actually is good was fun.  I also feel like I know all the rules at this point.

Later that night a bunch of his friends came over for an early birthday celebration.  We headed into town and went to a bar for the night.  It was lots of fun.

Monday night we drove up a big hill to the "Secret Garden" which provided a pretty amazing view of Adelaide.  We then drove by the talk of the town, a very large Krispy Kreme, which opened about a year ago.  Sometimes it's the little things in life...

On Wednesday we headed to town during the day to explore.  We walked around the University of South Australia and then through various parts of Adelaide.  Our last stop was the Botanic Gardens which is the only place I remembered to take a picture this week.  Whoops.

Botanic Garden

On Friday, Vlad and I, along with two of his sisters, saw Ant-Man.  They somehow knew about a restaurant that secretly sells cheap movie tickets which was great because normal movie tickets here are  $20+ dollars.  Cinemas assign seating here which I found to be interesting (although it seemed like no one actually sat in their assigned seat).  The movie was great!  I recommend.

A bit later we headed over to Vlad's uncle's house for dinner.  I also got to meet a few of his cousins.

When we got back to the house, we headed to a bar in town to watch one of Vlad's friend's band play.  They were great although the group after made me want to leave ("Matthew McConaughey" appearing to be their hit single).

Vlad has another footy game today which I'll be headed to soon and then we're going into town tonight.  Should be fun!

For future plans, we've bought tickets to Melbourne so that will be happening in a few weeks.  We were trying to get to Ayers Rock but I highly doubt that will happen.  It is insanely expensive to get there and there's not a whole lot to do when you're there so we would be spending probably around $1000+ each to get there and then essentially turn around.  Not really worth it.  We're looking into other things to do instead.  I pitched Kangaroo Island which is near Adelaide but nothing is set yet.

That's all for now.  Bye.