Busy Weekend Around Adelaide

Some pictures of Adelaide on our way to pick up the car hire. The tall building in the background is the Westpac building which is the tallest building in Adelaide. Westpac is our bank.

This is the tram. This is the tram we take when we go to Glenelg beach.

This is the railway station/casino. The rails way station in in the basement and the rest of it is casino.

This is Parliament House. It is like the state capital building. Adelaide is the capital of South Australia. I love this building because it has so much character and detail.

Me on the way to pick up the car hire. Justin wanted to get a shot with the Australian flag in it.

We headed to Hahndorf (the oldest German town in Australia) on Saturday afternoon with our car hire to hang out with one of my friends from work. After lunch we took a nice walk around the area and here are some pictures.

A nice paddock with the hills in the background.

Me, Rachel (my friend from work), and Chris (her boyfriend)

Another nice scenery shot

On the way back from our walk. More beautiful scenery.

This weekend we were super busy with little things all around Adelaide. So busy in fact that we had to hire a car this weekend! On Saturday morning we picked up the car hire and headed off to Hahndorf to meet up with my friend Rachel from work. It was a nice afternoon hanging out for some lunch and going on a nice walk. Justin and I decided to have to have some dinner before we headed back to Adelaide (about 25 minutes away). Now Hahndorf is Australia's oldest German now and had alot of German heritage so we thought we would eat some German food. And boy did we eat some German food. We ordered the Tast of Germany platter at the restaurant we went to. It said it would feed two. It could have fed like five! There were like 5 different types of sausages, pretzels, potatoes, sauerkraut, ham hock (I don't know how to spell that!), and a pork chop. It was massive!!! Justin and I managed to eat about half. We had the other half for dinner last night. It was really good too! I will most definitely be taking my dad to this place! He just needs to remember to take his cholesterol medicine!

Saturday night we had a nice night in baking 6 cakes! We were baking cakes for a fundraiser at church. So on Sunday morning we headed off to church to sell some cakes! We sold all of our cakes and make $111.50! We were fundraising for an event called Schoolies. Justin and I are volunteering next weekend for the event. It is essentially a 5 day long party that seniors who have just graduated go to down at the beach. Churches have gotten together and formed volunteer teams to help run things and let things go smoothly as possible. Schoolies isn't a Christian event, but most of the volunteers are. It should be quite an experience. Justin and I will be helping out for just 2 nights. Our hours to help are like 6 pm-2 am! Crazy!

After our cake selling, we headed off to Belair National Park for our friends' engagement party. It was so nice! It seemed like the whole church was there! We had a barbecue and just hung out with everyone. It was a relaxing Sunday afternoon. We did go on a short hike and saw 2 koalas!

So that is our weekend. Next weekend, like I said, we will be off to Schoolies. I am a bit nervous because I don't know what to expect! We miss you all!