Happy new year! Phil and I spent a few days over Christmas time in Melbourne with my mum and Kevin. They had an xmas do for Kevin's family and so we helped to prepare for it... its not unlike my mum to overcook, over order etc when it comes to food, so lucky phil and I were able to help my mum with the cooking and preparations as she decided to make so many dishes.

Visited crown casino, city, brunswick st.. watched Volver.. FANTASTIC spanish movie starring penelope cruz.. and drank a lot of chai latte.. mmm.

It was so cold over there, that we had to put the heater on and wear jumpers and jeans. There was even snow on christmas day not too far from where we were but we didn't find out till we were back in Adelaide! Driving back was not much of a drama, as phil gave me a car tuner adaptor thingy for my ipod and so we had plenty of tunes to listen to on the way back. I also got introduce to the game of "car cricket" hehe.

When back in Adelaide, the weather became increasingly hot, today is 40 degrees!!! So it feels like we've had summer then winter then summer again. Bizarre.

New years was a pretty low key event, we decided at last minute to brave the crowds and catch the tram down to glenelg to watch the fireworks at the beach there. Just before midnight we even got to witness a drunken couple fight very loudly on the beach making a big spectacle of themselves ending up with the girl sobbing by herself just before the countdown and then think they made up after the fireworks were over. Hmm.

Next day, phil and I went to a adelaide vs melbourne cricket game at the adelaide oval. It was an interesting game with 8000 ppl attending, not too bad for a local crowd. We lost but that was not without some funny things happening like three fielders went to catch the ball (a real easy one to catch) and then all three thinking the other will catch it so the ball ended up falling on the ground between the three of them. Sad but funny :)

I gotta admit, its much better watching it in person without the drone of the commentator.. that ALWAYS puts me to sleep.. :)