PJ's was fun!

After work I walked to the pub and I ran in to this dead dinosaur. Or maybe it was a replica. I think his flesh had melted off the past week or something. Maybe that's how they got extinct. Maybe. Yeah. I don't know. Do you know? Or do you just -think- you know? Who knows? Nobody can tell. It's one big secret. Just like my pin code. That's a secret too. And the colour of the queens underwear. Nobody knows about that. If you know, can you please tell me?

We went here to meet with Stephen and Caroline and...

... Michelle and Ryan. It was really nice to have dinner with all of them again. We had lots of laughs and it was really relaxing. Oh, and my parmi and three pints of Magners was also very good.


Now we're back at home with the air conditioner on. But tonight we're gonna try and sleep with the door open and the fan in front of it. I'm very scared of mosquitos.

People under trees

During lunch I sat under a tree again.

I was not alone.

People were sitting/lying under trees everywhere.

When I walked back to the office after lunch I met our friend Michelle. She has the exact same glasses as I do except hers have brown glasses and mine are black(ish).

The lunch

Early morning (8am) we went into town with the bus to find out what that was like in preparation for my first working day on Monday. It went well but I have to say that there's a school holiday on this week so no kids. We'll see on Monday I guess...

We made an early trip to the Central Market. here Nicole is browsing vegetables in her favorite asian grocery store.

Later in the morning, after we'd been at home for an hour again, we drove into town. Walking out of the parking garage we saw Adelaide's only solar powered bus getting juiced up. You hardly hear this bus, it's wonderful.

We were meeting Michelle and Stephen for lunch. While waiting these 2 asian girls walked past wearing typical asian-girls outfits. My luck of course that there's a bloody pole in front of the right girl...

Stephen measuring the amount of radio-activity while waiting for Michelle.

Michelle (left) in heavy conversation with Nicole. We had lunch at a chinese restaurant type of place. it was time very well spent!

Special addition: The Bocconcini.

The following 4 photo's are made especially for my 2 fellow guild members from World of Warcraft called Badooga and Wilhelmina.

Preparing the bocconcini. It's just very thinly (and I mean THIN) sliced prosciutto wrapped around a bocconcini cheese. Put them in a tray after greasing the bottom with olive oil.

Put it in an oven at about 200 degrees C and wait about 5-7 minutes (I think) until the cheese starts to melt.

When the cheese start to seriously melt, get it out of there. You want the cheese to stay chewy.

Drizzle some olive oil over the bocconcini's and add some oregano to your liking. Eat while they're hot!

Uberschnitzels and some trains

In the afternoon we went to the pub to have lunch with Michelle and Ryan and some of her friends. It was her birthday this week.

Michelle and Ryan ordered a chicken schnitzel (top) and a beef schnitzel (bottom). This gives you a good idea why Nicole and I long for a restaurant that serves European size portions. With stuff like this there is no room for starters or deserts. Having a nice meal with with friends is over quickly coz you can only have 1 course.

Around 15:00 we had to leave coz it was getting really warm outside. Tomorrow is s'posed to be even worse...

I was making a little test-track for my modeltrains. I designed a tiny track using my DRail software but it didn't fit right. So I made the calculations myself. Nice way of putting all my highschool maths to work.

I worked it out and was able to make this.

While I could I thought I would try making some close-ups of some of my trains. This is an older NS 1100 loco.

The newer NS 1700.

2 old-style oil cars from "Bon Zaandam".

And a tiny locomotive from Bayern, Germany.

Just to give you an idea about the size of these loco's. The scale is 1:160. This last little loco is about 3cm long.