Is this really Australia?

After I wrote the log yesterday, it rained twice more! Once for about 15 seconds, and the other time for almost three minutes! There was even a little bit of water on the road. And the skies got dark and blustery. Felt like September back home.

When Joel got home, we decided to go to the market, and have supper out. The market, as you might recall, is about two blocks from here. Friday nights it goes until 9:00. So we had a pleasant supper in a little Italian restaurant across the street from it (we skipped the one called "The Buddha Bar", as well as the Thai, Chinese, Indian, and so on, restaurants), the went over and got some veggies and fruit. Since we still don't have the fridge problem completely worked out, we decided not to get a lot of veggies, as they might get frozen. We're testing the fridge repair to see if it freezes things, and if not, will buy more stuff.

Speaking of frozen, my Palm died yesterday, so it was a sad day. More important, this machine now has all my passwords and things on it. So I spent some time on eBay and bought a used one from a guy in Markham for $150. He should be sending it pretty soon to the old office, and it will hopefully get to the PO Box that way.

I will send some more photos for you. One is the bike trail on the way to the beach, one is the Adelaide skyline from the area of the beach, one is the plaza at Glenelg, and the last is the "front" door of the apartment. I tried a different way to get them into the blog, and it didn't seem to work as I had hoped, so if you can also go to the website http://picasaweb.google.com/robertjames08/AroundAdelaide?pli=1, you'll see some more.

Must get going. It's almost 10 AM here.