My super breakfast

We went in to town today to buy a few things. So why not have breakfast there as well?

This was my breakfast. I just didn't feel like eating a ham/cheese croissant again. Yes, I skipped lunch...

I love this row of houses in Rundle Street. Very wild-west.

Speaking of wild-west...

Then we went to Myer to buy a new hairdryer (the old one exploded). This was NOT for me by the way...

They were selling a bloody poffertjes pan!

On our way back to the car we bought some fresh juice.

And we went to Haigh's to buy some chocolates.

I bought myself this little external cd/dvd reader/writer for my little laptop. It's USB powered which is very handy.

At home I wanted to mow the lawn but my lawn mower is screwed. That little gear wheel has a mechanism inside that fails too often. I have to fix that but I need a little bit of steel rod for that.

This is the inside of the wheel, you can see how it drives the little gear wheel.

The farewells.

The garden when we left the house to go to my work for the last time in Australia.

Crossing the lights on King William Street. On the left you can just see a bit of the "horsey" statue where Nicole has dropped me off many, many times.

Instead of having farewell beers after work I asked people to come out to lunch with me. And not to some schnitzel place but to Hotel Richmond, where they make fantastic food in fantastic portions.

These people were discussing make-up...

I had the carpaccio for starters...

... and the pistachio filled chicken breast for main. It was delicious.

This used to be my desk.

And this used to be my office.

When we came home we fed Mason. He was a good boy.

I played Google Maps :-)

I thought I'd play a bit of Google maps today by photographing my journey to Victoria Square. It starts after I crossed the street.



Past a restaurant that sells foie gras (BAD!)

Crossing Pirie street.

In to the tunnel. The entrance of this tunnel is actually behind the white car in the picture above.

Out of the tunnel. I hate that pillar. It's so in the way there. It's just too much in the way. So stupid.



Past the church.



And there is Victoria Square.

That's the old post office.

Crossing the street in to the park.



The fountain with on the left the absolutely beautiful Aboriginal flag.

Todays destination, ready for action.

Lunch. Matar paneer and channa masala. Oh, and a paratta.

Fire trucks driving around as usual.

Lunch view. It was nice and sunny, which was surprising because there were lots of clouds. It had rained during the morning even.

On my way back I went in to the candy store.

Back to the office I experienced a "moment in Amsterdam".

Busy.

I was busy at work today. I really wanted to get something done and it worked. Even though my colleagues slowed me down by buying me farewell cake and offering a farewell card with nice messages and a voucher to eat in one of Adelaide's finest establishments. I will enjoy that very much!

On the way home it was busy as well. because it rained. And in Adelaide people panic when a few drops fall down and traffic slowly grinds to a halt...

Gone.

Early morning. The pigeons are lining up to keep an eye on things that happen in the garden that might involve food...

It was a warm and sunny morning, Mason was lazy.

I took this photo during a typical Australian moment. It was warm in the sun, quiet. There was no wind and everything seemed to say "aahhhhhh, sun".

Ahhhhh, sun.

And then the movers showed up. They worked fast but they were a bit rowdy.

When everything was done we drove to Henley with Karin.

We had giros and I also had spanakopita. Hmmmmmm.

When I came home, my mum and dads card had arrived with a beautiful EURO bank note in it. THANK YOU! :-)

So long Cocky-girl...

I brought birthday cake to work. A big fat fruit flan with a lot of cream and custard and fruit. Delicious.

Another day, another fake fire alarm.

Down in to the Woolworths pit of hell during lunch.

There was a guy playing a piano in Rundle mall.

In the next suburb there was a pretty big, REAL fire.

And when we came home... somebody was missing. We found the food-door of cocky-girl's cage open and cocky girl was gone. I am wondering if I forgot to close it...