Berries galire

This weekend I spent a lot of time out and about. Saturday morning I braved the croweds for some Christmas shopping in the city. It wasn't too bad in the end, I just couldn't think of what to get people so ended up wandering around a lot. Still need to finish that off this weekend coming. In the arvo I jumped on my bike for a ride down to the beach. Headed down Anzac Highway and onto the sand at Glenelg. It's not the best beach around, but it is the closest to my house so I ignored the slightly murky water. It wasn't really hot so I didn't jump in the water for too long but spent most of my time on the towel reading and eavesdropping on conversations around me.

I love how out on the sand everyone seems to feel as though no one can see or hear what they are up to. Some girls on my right were unfortunately gossiping in German so I couldn't understand them, but on my left there were another couple of girls who were approached by a rather white and rotund man who tried the worlds worst pick up line on them. It was definitely a home-grown one, as evidenced by it's awkward delivery and general failure. He asked one of the girls if she had a lighter, she held it out for him, he asked several times if it was really OK for him to use it. She kept nodding impatiently and he finally took it and lit his cigarette. Upon handing back the lighter he asked "Would it be alright if I moved my towel a bit closer so next time I won't have to come across?" She hesitated for a moment, no doubt weighing the awkwardness of refusing him against the discomfort of encouraging him to pursue in his obvious and futile attempt to pick up. Then she just shook her head and he went back to his towel for about five minutes before picking it up and moving on. I wonder if he'll try that one again?

On Sunday I was on a bike heading up the freeway with thousands of other motorcyclists. I was wearing puppets on my hands to wave at all the kids with and I must say they were a huge success. Only problem was that I was getting carried away with puppeteering and when the bike took off a bit fast I almost came off the back! It was beautiful weather for it, not too hot and it didn't rain in the end either. The oval was packed with people up at Hahndorf, it would have been nice to have had lunch up there and hang around a bit but we had to head back into Adelaide for my grandma's 70th birthday party. So the day was a bit crazy in the end, headed straight from the party back to mine for some quick food and then off to touch footy! Crazy busy. We did win touch footy though, hurray!!

This week I have a lot of cooking to do. Pie for someone's birthday and a dish to share on Saturday evening. And Friday is the work Xmas function :) Nice to be at a workplace that has such things going on. Today there was even a break up party for the international students and I stuffed myself full of cherries and other fruit and am now feeling slightly worse for wear... Too many berries; not good news.