Hot Weekend

So Friday was the opening night of the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Living downtown, I had no idea how many people actually live in the Adelaide area and its like they all came out for this parade. This parade was different than any I had been to before though. First of all its was an evening parade beginning at 8pm. You could never do that because of weather in Canada but here, 8:30pm and the temperature was still well into the high 20s at least. Add crowds and no doubt everyone was sweating. The other thing that was different was that it was one sided. What I mean by that is that people were meant to watch it from only one side - and I was on the wrong side. It seems the fringe here is largely cabaret and circus influenced and that came out in the parade. Here are a few shots from the parade. (the night time lighting made it difficult to photograph but I did my best)

In Canada we have horses, here they had camels in the parade

People climbed on anything to get a good view

Dragon like "float"

Parade from the backside

The large majority of the parade was little kids showing off circus tricks, some of which were impressive but it looked like a few different circus academies were being represented. I'm sure it would have been better had I been on the other side but I have to admit that I was not all the impressed. It did get me thinking though. I'm not sure I've ever actually been to a parade that was great. I mean what exactly is good about a parade? Maybe you can leave me a comment with your thoughts on Parades.

Regardless, my friends eventually found me and since the barricades wouldn't let us get to one another we decided to leave and hang out. There were many festivities going on that night so we headed to campus for the Grand Opening of the UniSA CityWest campus pub.

These were set up in the outdoor "beer garden-like" section of the pub so we embraced the given photo opportunity here L-R: Me, Tansi, Matteo, Gerald, Jazz

Carmen and Fan

Outdoor pub space

Cardboard stools everywhere!

Saturday at the Beach

The next day, my friends and I had plans to go to the beach again. Since the forecast was 39degrees, we decided it would be safer for our skin if we went a bit later in the day. So around 3pm we headed to Grange Beach which is about 45 mins on the tram away but is literally and the end of the tram line and super easy to get to. Gorgeous is an understatement and Hot doesn't even begin to describe it!

Glenelg Beach!

Yup I really am here!

This is Vicky, my flat mate from Hong Kong

Wedding Pictures on the pier

Fishing for Crabs

People jumping off the pier into the water below

the view from the pier

Open water and endless sky

Can you see us? we're right in front of the twisty slides

All you can see is beach melting into the ocean

The sun begins to set- that's mine and Matteo's shadows

 

 

After the sun set we got ready to go but as we came up from the beach there was a stretch of grass laid out in front of a saxophonist playing beautifully. It just begged us to stay... so we did.

I'll leave you with these images of my life here to date.

Tomorrow I start school.

Wish me luck!