Adelaide Christmas

Tuesday, 26 December 2023

On Christmas Eve we did a new Adelaide activity for us - playing disc golf at a new course which was formerly a golf course just a few minutes away from where we stay. It was lovely - it was just our group and the massive kangaroos on the course when we tee-ed off at 8am.  It was 18 holes but we only managed 13 as we had to get to Ikea before the breakfast menu changed to meatballs (like cinderella's coach changing to a pumpkin if you ask me).

Jett and I did  pretty well (playing as a team) although everyone had their moments of brilliance.   I'm looking forward to playing again when we are back in town at Easter.

The rest of Christmas Eve was filled with Ikea, a DFO which was actually a really nicely laid out and pleasant shopping experience, hot chips at the West Beach Surf Lifesaving Club while catching up with Damien and Tracey then building gingerbread houses and playing games back at the Moffas house.

Christmas Day was typically huge but atypically really cold in Adelaide. Jon and Jett ran 20k in the park in the morning while I plodded around for 10k - it was lovely though:

Then it was onto Christmas Breakfast followed by Christmas Lunch followed by Christmas Dinner with many many family members and blow-ins.  It was exhausting but we did find the energy to hop in the pool for half an hour somewhere there too - as it was drizzling it wasn't surprising it was just the Hobart-McCombs and one brave South Australian nephew who braved it.

Right now we are sitting at Cairns airport bound for Osaka after a 3.45am start and a 6am flight out of Adelaide.  The heat and humidity just transiting from the domestic to the international terminal was quite a shock after cold Adelaide!