Flat Stanley in Adelaide

Gemma and I drove to Windy Point to show Flat Stanley the view of Adelaide. Windy Point (and Mt Lofty provide spectacular panoramic views of Adelaide - very few other cities in this world have these sorts of views).

As you can see we have taken good car of Stanley, to the extent of making sure he wore a seat belt on the drive.

The Return of the Red Dwarf

Those who know me well, know that one of my favourite TV shows is Red Dwarf. So when we recently bought a small red Suzuki Swift, the custom plate was an obvious choice.

All this to look forward to.

How would you like to find out what the future holds for you? Well Sam found out recently.

In unpacking our stuff, we found an old class photo of mine from when I was around Sam's age. Sam thought we had a photo of him! (you may ask what happened to me - Sam did)

More Flat Stanley

Today Flat Stanley went to school with Gemma. He was introduced to the whole class and made to feel very welcome! Gemma also read out his letter to the class.

Flat Stanley

We got a visitor from the US in the post today. Flat Stanley arrived from Virginia. Gemma was very excited. She will be taking him to a few places over the next few days, but tonight he saw the lounge room and the front yard, with the BIG tree that we have.

Rain at last

It's been 8 weeks since we landed in Adelaide and since then just 0.6mm of rain has been recorded officially. A couple of times we've had just enough to make the cars dirty but nothing to make the ground wet. Until this afternoon. Finally wet roads, wet ground, and maybe enough to put some water into the rainwater tank. Here's some video I've just shot in our front and back yards. You can hear some of the native birds that are excited too about the weather. Not a heavy downpour, but it's a start.

Marchfest

Marchfest (instead of Oktober fest - get it), is a family fair held by the kid's school each year in March as a fund raiser. It's got a German/Austrian theme so everyone dresses appropriately (I wore my Bayern Munich soccer jersey).

The school seniors do micro credit and sell their services as part of the day. The boys were into coloured hair.

These boys had some goofy animals for sale.

And Alyssa and Co. sold pens decorated (they were in high demand).

There was also some dancing and each of the kid's classes were involved in dances (think heel-toe or chicken dance). I took video, and will try and blog it eventually.