Happy New Year!

We didn't have much for breakfast in the house so we went in to town for breakfast. We went to Scoozi's to be exact. And what a great breakfast we had. Not too much, but sooooo damn tasty. Great start of the last day of this year.

This was our view: Rundle Street.

We looked for shoes but couldn't quite find what we wanted.

Well known Belgian beer available here.

And then we went to the beach.

Nicole doing the 'vogeltjes dans'.

The water was refreshing but not cold enough. A few kilometres away a 4 metre great white was swimming we later read on the news.

Gull walking to the left...

Gull walking to the right. The beach can be thrilling.

The little steam train was riding as well.

Around 21:00 we drove down to the big park in town for some New Years eve festivities. There was a stage with bands playing on it, there were some food stalls and plenty of toilets.

Because we had skipped dinner we first went to the guzleme stand. Guzleme is a delicious Turkish dish. It's kinda like pizza dough, folded, with spinach, feta cheese and lambs meat inside. Hmmmm.

Like I said before, bands were playing on stage.

The fountain was changing colour all the time.





And at midnight sharp the fire works started. Pretty nice fireworks too, for 15 minutes.

Mic called me to say happy new year but we couldn't really hear each other very well. We'll catch up tomorrow.

The fireworks were lit from a bridge. At some point it looked like the whole bridge was on fire.

Boom.

Cross country trainer

CHRISTmas is over. Masses of people have been giving other people lots of crap presents that they don't want or need. The more the better. Well, it's not really better, judging by the 15 metres line up in front of Target's return-desk.

These are the latest babies of the two doves that live here. I haven't seen their previous offspring for weeks so I think they were told to piss off and look for their own place somewhere else. These two will be told the same thing in a few weeks. There's no emotion involved, just instinct, maybe.

This is my and Nic's CHRISTmas present: A new cross trainer. Top of the range professional equipment also used in gyms. Lets see if we can find the discipline to use it.

Fans

We drove to King William Street this morning to check out some perfume shop Nicole had heard about. We found it. It's called Jo Malone.

Nicole had a good time in there. While I was waiting outside.

Not much going on in King William Street.

OH! Cars!

My sisters CHRISTmas card arrived.

I painted parts for the solar powered zen-garden fountain that I'm -very- slowly working on.

While doing so I noticed I had two fans. One dove sitting above me on my left. He or she is actually just to jump on my phone. They are hilarious. They also try to land on you sometimes. One landed on my back twice.

And one dove sitting on my right. I like to think they were interested in what I was doing. But I think they just wanted more food. Nevertheless they are nice birds to have around you.

I heard the shark laugh

We went to Henley today and discovered the Henley Beach kiosk. We didn't know it existed. We had a rather nice cappuccino there.

All was normal until a helicopter came flying past. It was the shark patrol. And yeah, it started circling above the water. We have had an above average amount of shark sightings the past months. You hear about one on a daily basis at the moment and yesterday a man was killed by a great white (that's one like "Jaws") in Perth.

This whole shark thing became quite a circus because they try and escort it away from the beach. The audience was growing.

At one point there was the helicopter, two boats from the surf life-savers and one police boat. Oh, I forgot the little surf life-saving quad that was on the beach. I guess they are there just incase the shark tries to come on land...

Loads and loads of people

Around four in the morning I was woken up by sounds on the little roof above our window. It was the sound of falling plums and rustling of leaves. I fell asleep again.

When I woke up and walked outside I found this half a metre away from our door. Some little animal went to the toilet right in front of our door! The nerve!

Using my aboriginal tracking skills, I found this plum-pit, 40 cm away from the faeces. It must have had a feast because the tree is currently FULL of plums. It explains the kaka coz eating lots of plums gives you the shits :-)

We went to Rundle mall to look for several things. It was mad busy because the after CHRISTmas sale has started. Most shops have pretty nice discounts. I took lots of photo's of people.

















I wanted to buy a coffee maker for my work. They bought a $700 espresso maker that requires a lot of maintenance. Too much maintenance really. It requires a BIG clean-up right now, or actually it needed it 6 weeks ago and as a result it's now leaking coffee-goo daily. But all the people using that machine are too busy so it's far from getting cleaned. It's just too complicated, you have to be half an engineer to clean the damn thing. And there is nothing about that machine that justifies the price. Most of all the coffee is NOT particularly good. So yeah, I looked at this one in the picture.

But this is the one I bought. It's the one next to the water cooler mind you. It's nice and simple. Also it can make lots of cups at once which is handy for when you get clients over.

Walking towards our car again we saw this aboriginal man playing the didgeridoo. It sounded fantastic. We gave him $5.

Crossing the lights was a circus. This is the left side where we walked.

There were also a few people on the right side crossing...