Midweek update

It's now Wednesday morning and we survived our hottest day yet yesterday - in the high 30's - but we still haven't had to suffer a 40 + day yet, thank goodness. Last night was another windy one and again I had to get up in the middle of the night and stuff some of the sash windows to stop them rattling. Today is looking like a coolish one again with temperatures only reaching the mid 20's.

We've seen the reports from the UK of the Beast from the East, so we're kind of glad we're not there right now. Hope all's well there with everyone.

On Monday, we had a fairly easy day. I wasn't feeling too great - slight tummy bug, a relic of the weekend in the outback - so we just jumped on the train and headed towards the huge Marion shopping mall, besides which there is the South Australian Aquatic Centre, a monster building that hosts a variety of pools. This is just one of them:

No wonder the Aussies excel in swimming competitions.

By Monday evening I was feeling a little better so we planned a day out on Tuesday, catching the train south to Seaford, then a bus to Willunga from where we would walk back to McLaren Vale through all the vineyards along the Shiraz Trail. First we had coffee at a lovely little place in Willunga called the Three Monkeys:

Now we were ready for the walk:

A fairly comfortable 8 kms (5 miles) by recent standards.

We picked up the boys and Kelly came over and collected us and took us over to theirs for dinner.

Today (Wednesday) Kelly is off work and she will bring the boys over this afternoon and we will all head in to the city for a dinosaur exhibition - Miller will be delighted!