Finally after some planning, we managed to get us all on a weeks holiday to our hometown of Adelaide. For Irving it was his first time there, and for some of us, we hadn't visited in 6yrs, so it became an opportunity for family and friends catch-ups as well as being a bit touristy and eating lots of good food. I must admit that is the biggest thing that I miss Adelaide, so much good food!
So first stop, on our first day there we headed to the Central markets to top up on some groceries, and to show Arden and Irving some of our favourite places.
This place was excellent, if like me you like kombucha. A few of us got spider kombuchas here. Plus they had a kefir from WA that I had never seen here.....
A few of us headed to the zoo. First stop was the pandas (there is one hiding down the back on the left of this shot).
Arden and Irving had a great time watching this echidna wander around. Plus we saw a fenneck Fox which Arden was very pleased about.
After the zoo with Grandma, we managed a tram ride to the fringe, to catch up with friends and more family. It was great riding the extension up North Tce, and to see the tram network growing since our last visit.
The following day saw us head off to Womadelaide for an evening full of music and dance, It was a very full evening, with bell ringers doing performance art, cossack dancing, celtic fiddling, Carmen performed flamenco style. All the best things of getting to Womad- very diverse cultural performances and styles.
Trying out some Cossack dancing.
We got to our favourite chocolatier! Steven ter Horst with his amazing chocolates and cakes and now waffles!
There was an exhibition celebrating local Kaurna (said Garna) culture called Yabarra as part of Fringe. Probably my favourite bit was Arden's reaction to the river Torrens. "That is a river!!!???" After living in Perth for most of his life, the shock is quite understandable. :D
We also made it to the art gallery, where they have currently arranged the gallery into a nice mix of multi-cultural Australia
Our apartments attempt at a pool was rather dismal....only somewhere without 6months worth of swimming weather would think it was reasonable to put the pool in the middle of the car park!?
A cute alleyway discovered on a walk on our final morning.
The beautiful Adelaide Arcade, has quite a few interest collectible style shops.
We stopped here for coffee, in the Arcade. I always hoped someone would do something like this to this part of the Arcade.
Stop off at the museum, examining some Kaurna artifacts.
The Ancient Egypt Exhibit- which has scared at least two people in our family (one is me, the other ,Willow).
Space travel exhibit
Crystals
Exploring Antartica
Checking out radiation.
Heading home to Perth again.
We haven't done much travelling, as a family, like this for quite a while, and it does remind me how much I love travelling and how lovely it is to go on a family adventure like this with kids. We're moved to Perth with this sort of idea in mind, and have stayed longer than planned, and it is interesting to know two different cities well enough to consider them as home.
