Feb. 22

2-21: Today we were in Adelaide. At 9:30 we left the ship and met Kathy and her significant other, Cedric, on the pier. Cedric took Bill and Susan and Ginnie and I went with Kathy. She took all around Adelaide. The picture of the statue is of William Light who decided where the city would be and how it would be laid out.. Turns our he is an ancestor of Kathy’s late husband. Then we went up Mt. Lofty - the picture from the mountain shows Adelaide down below and the ocean in the background. Then we went through a German town which was very beautiful - pretty rose bushes all over the place. Then we went on to Mt. Barker which is where Betty lives and where we were going to meet Betty and her daughter for lunch. We were early so Kathy dropped us at a pub while she went to fill her car with petrol. By the way petrol is 1.20 or so per liter - that makes it well over 4 bucks a gallon! Ginnie and I tried another Aussie beer - Victoria Bitters or VB. It was pretty good. Then we went on to lunch which was nice. At lunch we drank what all these Aussies think is the best Australian beer - Coopers Pale Ale - it was quite good. After lunch we went to Betty’s daughter’s farm. She raises alpacas - hence the pictures. The little black one was 3 months old and was too cute. Also got to pet a dog so that was wonderful.. We had strawberries and ice cream and real cream - very good. And Betty whose husband had mined and polished opals gave each of us an opal to take home! Good heavens - these women were so nice to us - we were amazed! They are really great - we had such a beautiful day! Then we headed back down out of the hills back to the ship. We started to get a little nervous about getting back on time - just barely got back at 5:30 which was when we were supposed to be back. The whole day was great - it was really nice to see where and how people live instead of being on a tour of some sort - absolutely great. But we are pooped and headed to bed. We set our clocks back half an hour last night - HALF AN HOUR!! - we do the other half tonight. So now - when it is 9:30 pm Tuesday here right now - it is 5:30 am Tuesday in Dallas.