Karin at Madame Tussaud's

Soon after I woke up it already got pretty busy at our place. Simon dropped by to service Ash's car. The party was already full on when I finally arrived.

Simon is very aware of these days (Amsterdam) fashion and totally got the purple worked into his outfit.

After the party was over we drove to Bunnings. I needed a drill press vice. That's a vice (bankschroef in Dutch) to use specifically with a drill press (kolom-boormachine in Dutch). Unfortunately I forgot to photograph it. I need this to drill holes in the heat sink. I need the heat sink for my power supply. I need the power supply to test a little electrical fountain pump. I need the fountain pump for my little Zen garden I want to make.

If we are lucky all this will be created before we move out...

We also bought one plant each for our desks at work. Of course it also needs a pot.

When we came home and were quite tired and didn't know what to have for dinner, the phone rang. Karin asked if we could be interested in some cottage pie that she made fresh. I drove us down in record time and the pie was delicious. Thanks Karin! :-)

You'd think I photographed a wax statue at Madame Tussaud's here but it is really Karin! :-)

When we came home again I checked the mail and Craig, a friend of ours send us a postcard and a fridge magnet. THANK YOU CRAIG! :-) I actually really like this magnet. I like Obama coz he's the best choice for a new American president at the moment I think (I REALLY don't like republicans (and Australian and Dutch liberals) because they put economic interests way too far ahead of anything else).

It's added to our fine selection of fridge magnets. I like our fridge magnets. They remind me of places Nicole and I visited. Good times, Terry, good times.

The poffertjes / Mr. Cola

When I got to work I had a quick look around the corner to see if there was a crowd lining up for the iPhone. There was indeed a small crowd. This was at 8:15. The shop was opening at 9:00 I believe.

For lunch Mark and I walked to a different little food court today. They had a Billy Baxters there. Mr. Cola was staring at me constantly.

And finally I found a B. Baxters that sells poffertjes. Not all of them sell these you see. This was the "before" photo right after it was served to me. When ordering poffertjes, you only need to know there are poffertjes, you shouldn't be able to see them.

So I politely asked for more icing sugar and emptied their supply over my poffertjes. Much better. They even put some butter underneath. I was happy then :-)

After work, Mark and I walked to P.J. O'Brien's where we were meeting Nicole. Rundle mall was mad busy.

After having dinner at P.J's we went to see an anime movie. This one was called "The girl who leapt through time". It was between OK and good. On a scale of 0-10 I think it scored a 7 with me.

On the way out we spotted this movie poster. It's about an Egyptian police band getting stranded in a little village in Israel. Should be good.

Outside of the cinema there were a few lit tiles in the street. I should've done a Michael Jackson pose while standing on one.

The buildings

In the morning I had to walk a few blocks to get to an office of SGIC, our health insurance. I spotted a few buildings along the way that I liked photographing.

This is apparently their main office in South Australia. There were 3 counters of which 2 were (wo)manned. The girl helping me didn't know j*ck sh*t about health insurance and had to call someone for every question I had. I had 4 questions but told her I would call them myself after question nr. two. Buhbye now.

Walking back I made more photo's.

This building is interesting because of the green tiles. Hadn't noticed it before even though it's right next to my work. I always walk the other way...

For lunch I bought a Vili's beef pie at cafe Fresh. But that just wasn't enough so I went to the doughnut shop, where else?

It was busy at the food court.

Cold

Two little birds were sitting on the wire this morning. There was no sun to warm them up.

They could go to church but god usually can't afford the energy bill so those places are often stone cold...

My lunch was warm. I tried something else but it wasn't as nice as the beef long bean.

The city was cold as I walked to my bus stop.

I know these palm trees make others think we live in the tropics but right now my fingers are freezing. They have forecasted bad weather for tomorrow including hail. Brrrrrrrr.

What's the time?

Thai time!

Accident time!

The buildings

This is one of the best looking churches in Adelaide (although my photo makes it look pretty ordinary). Since Adelaide is also knows as the "City of churches" there are a lot of nice looking churches though.

Driving through Grenfell street where I work.

We had a bad night of sleep. It bucketed down with rain from 2 am till 4 am. Having a roof of sheet metal and a carport covered by sheet metal on one side and a shed covered with sheet metal on the other side, you can only imagine how noisy that was... It rained all day really. The driest creeks have turned into little rivers right now.

Lunch time = Thai time on Mondays. Beef long bean with rice take-away and orange juice. $10.20. Can't beat it.

Some buildings across the street.

Some buildings down the street.

After work it was time for Magners so I walked down to P.J O'Brien's to meet Nicole. Here I was crossing Pulteny street.

It was quiet and empty in the pub. The usual deal on a Monday night. I love it. We're getting to know the bartender a bit. He's a nice bloke from Scotland. The quiet type. He makes an effort to speak to us, I can tell. We can only appreciate it, which we do.

The BBQ

We went to Richard and Debbie's place today for a BBQ and some trivial pursuit.

Since everybody brought something to be cooked we ended up with a large variety of meat. This is about a quarter of what we had...

Max the dog was keeping an eye out...

Max and Greg having a smoke.

From left to right: Mel, Debbie, Alex, Nicole and Gianna.

Richard taking his shot during a game of pool.

Alex, Richard and Debbie.

Gianna, Greg, Toni and Alex.

Mel and Jules.

We had a fun afternoon until we had to leave to feed the birds. When we left it was pissing down with rain but we made it home safe and sound, and also half frozen by the way...