Adelaide - a lovely christmas
I got to spend a good 8 days at Flic's house. Her family will always be my 1st choice to spend Christmas with. In a way, it is my 'extended' family now. Hehe...
So far, I had the best time in Adelaide. It is always up to who I am spending time with. And every place has its own charm. The 'charm' of Adelaide is being small. Everything is so close by - from airport, to beaches; from winery to wildparks. 8 days is not too long or too short for Adelaide. Thus my stay was very eventful.
Dinner with Flic's school friends, where and when I got the first Christmas gift. It was just a box of chocolate - but also I shouldn't expect people who even didn't know me to give me anything else. So it was still a lovely gift. Her friends are very lady like - who said people from Melbourne are the most uptight?
Wine testing in Jocob's Creek, not that I tasted several dozens of different red and white wines, I guess as small as I am, it is not too difficult to get drunk. I almost fell over during the winery tour. Also the lady guiding us around was talking like Shakespear which made me very dizzy.
Tom Gara took me and Flic to this wildpark called Urimbirra. Urimbirra doesn't have a large amount of animals in terms of species and number. But it is so interactive that I got to feed kangaroos and pad koalas. I loved kangaroo because it tickles a bit when they were eating the food in my hand. Koalas were not too impressive. They are basically lazy bastards who sleep 20 hours a day and wake up for some food. But they are very cute especially the little tounges they have while grabbing leaves to eat. In some other occasions, you don't expect any interaction with Australian wild animals, e.g. crocodiles. Watching them being fed with chicken and fish is exciting enough for me already.
Alumni reunion, Christmas Day in the church of England, driving along the hills, swimming at the beach where Tom grew up...All have been interesting experiences for me.
Gift giving is such a sweet idea. You care more when you are giving a gift - you always need to think about what people want. The chinese sensibility of giving money should die out! ;-)
Now I already started to miss Flic, her parents, her brother, her house, Jason but never her cat!
So far, I had the best time in Adelaide. It is always up to who I am spending time with. And every place has its own charm. The 'charm' of Adelaide is being small. Everything is so close by - from airport, to beaches; from winery to wildparks. 8 days is not too long or too short for Adelaide. Thus my stay was very eventful.
Dinner with Flic's school friends, where and when I got the first Christmas gift. It was just a box of chocolate - but also I shouldn't expect people who even didn't know me to give me anything else. So it was still a lovely gift. Her friends are very lady like - who said people from Melbourne are the most uptight?
Wine testing in Jocob's Creek, not that I tasted several dozens of different red and white wines, I guess as small as I am, it is not too difficult to get drunk. I almost fell over during the winery tour. Also the lady guiding us around was talking like Shakespear which made me very dizzy.
Tom Gara took me and Flic to this wildpark called Urimbirra. Urimbirra doesn't have a large amount of animals in terms of species and number. But it is so interactive that I got to feed kangaroos and pad koalas. I loved kangaroo because it tickles a bit when they were eating the food in my hand. Koalas were not too impressive. They are basically lazy bastards who sleep 20 hours a day and wake up for some food. But they are very cute especially the little tounges they have while grabbing leaves to eat. In some other occasions, you don't expect any interaction with Australian wild animals, e.g. crocodiles. Watching them being fed with chicken and fish is exciting enough for me already.
Alumni reunion, Christmas Day in the church of England, driving along the hills, swimming at the beach where Tom grew up...All have been interesting experiences for me.
Gift giving is such a sweet idea. You care more when you are giving a gift - you always need to think about what people want. The chinese sensibility of giving money should die out! ;-)
Now I already started to miss Flic, her parents, her brother, her house, Jason but never her cat!
posted by Jingwei @ 11:41 AM
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glad you enjoyed it! miss you heaps, luv flic xxx
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