Adventures in Adelaide

After the World Rainbow Gathering in New Zealand (which you can read about HERE and HERE), we went home via Adelaide, South Australia, where I wanted to attend a midwifery workshop with Lisa Barrett from homebirth.net.au. In a strange twist of events, I didn’t get to do the workshop, but sometimes the universe guides us in funny ways.

On the flight (which was a cheap ticket with Virgin), the air stewardess was going up the plane inviting all the small children to come to the front of the plane and get their faces painted! That was pretty cool – reminds me a bit of the days when kids were invited to come up to see the cockpit.

We stayed with old friends of Purple’s – they all travelled around in Scotland together 8 years ago, and they now have two daughters who are 5 and 2.5. The girls had a great time playing together.

They got crazy with nail polish

and made Papier Mache beads

And the impossible - sewed flowery pink skirts out of an old curtain and then climbed the mulberry tree in them.

We went on a little driving tour around the Barossa Valley area, and saw the Herbig Family Tree - a really cool big old tree that has a massive hollow trunk – an entire family used to live in it 150 years ago.

We did get to do some fun things in the city. We went to the South Australian Art Gallery, and the South Australian Museum. They had a cool exhibit on fossils for the school holidays

But Littletree’s favourite part was the minerals

We also got to have dinner with my brother and sister at the Central Markets

It was great to catch up with them – Littletree was so excited. She took this picture of me and my sister – pretty wong-kee! LOL

Sadly, Littletree’s only pair of shoes broke, so Aunty Chicky took her to get new ones

And then we simply *had* to sample the chocolate fountain

Well, I didn’t have any coz I’m allergic to chocolate, but Littletree LOVED it (and so appropriately, since we were listening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on tape in the car).

We also had a picnic at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens with my friend Poly Nucleotide

and Littletree got to meet her cousin for the first time

Littletree’s faerie nature coming out

And we stumbled across a meeting of the South Australian Spinners guild, who were all our in the park with their spinning wheels, and were very happy to show us how it all works. I want a spinning wheel!!!

Finally, we got to come home :) Ah, it’s so good to be in my own space again.

More pictures from our adventure can be seen on my flickr page HERE