The Holiday Report

[kirby1024]

Well, me and fireflyfaery went to Adelaide this week, and have just recently returned. As per usual, I have decided to compress the last week into dot points, for the sanity of the readers concerned. I figure that this is usually what gets expressed in conversation anyway, and if you're interested in any of the details you'll probably chase me anyway. It also has the advantage that it's less effort for me...

Monday

• Rested. Train rides are fun, but sleeping in those chairs is rather difficult.


• Organised Schedule for rest of week. Mostly.


• Due to my lack of organisational skills, cooked dinner for Lara and My Nanna and Grampa. See, I forgot to tell them Lara was vegetarian, so I made it up to them by cooking mushroom risotto. Was enjoyed by all.

Tuesday

• Spent most of the day with Aaron, my friend in Adelaide. It is good to see him again, and catch up on things. Was mostly spent basically talking. I noted that Lara and Aaron seem to have more to talk about than me and Aaron do, but that may be because my conversational style is more a listening style.


• Stayed over the night. Had Indian takeout, and indeed it was delicious.

Wednesday

• Ended up spending most of this day with Aaron too. Went around the city with him, watched him spend lots of money on roleplaying books. Almost spent $50 of the money dad gave me to buy a Gamecube game, then decided I much preferred to eat. Was useful, as it turns out.


• Went back to Aaron's place, did some general chat and playing and stuff, then went to Nanna's place.

Thursday

• Went to Grandma and Grandpa's place for Lunch. My Uncle Michael turned up for lunch as well, which was a great surprise. Had (once again) forgotten to inform them of Lara's dietary requirements, but astoundingly, Grandma didn't need to go through too much fuss - just adjusted the soup type for Lara. The Tuna patties were enjoyed by all, and had a good afternoon talking with my relatives. Ended up getting a tape of a Four Corners piece on Monash University, and am intending to watch just as soon as I have time and a VCR that can play Extended Play Video Cassettes...


• Went back to Nanna's place, and my Aunt Roxette visitted us while my cousin was at soccer practice. Once again got to show my culinary talents as I made a simple Tomato + whatever-other-veggies-seem-appropriate Pasta. Talked to Aunt Rox, heard much interesting gossip that probably doesn't need to be revealed here.

Friday

• Went to Lara's Aunt and Uncle in the Afternoon, and intended to sleep over. Went to Lara's Cousin's Hockey Match which was cancelled due to poor weather conditions. Once over there, Lara's other cousin came home. I suspect I may have inadvertantly done an assignment for him, but at least I helped him do something cool (for info's sake, he had a "metal presentation", where he had to pick a metal and give a speech. I convinced him to do Americium, the metal used in smoke alarm ionisation detectors). Am still uncertain how to pronounce Americium. Had Fish and Chips for dinner.


• My friend George called that night. Missed him earlier in the evening, when it would be sane to call him up, and thus called him near midnight. Still, he was awake, and we organised to meet in the city the following day.

Saturday

• Went to the City to first meet up with Lara's old friend. After hanging with them for a while (and going to Adelaide's last remaining Roleplaying studio/club), went to meet George. We realised we were in the city, and thus had precious little to do, so spent a good deal of time walking up & down Rundle Mall and Hindley street looking for an accessible Pool table. Played a couple of games, we were both rather pathetic. Realised that I was leaving the next morning on the train, so dragged George around while I bought food for car trip. I also finally found a copy of the book of Sudokus that we had seen earlier in the week.

Sunday

• The long trip home. Fun, but exhausting. I really should go to bed now...

And thus, the holiday in a nutshell. Feel free to ask questions...

Comments

[nifwlseirff.livejournal.com]

Americium - the emphasis is on the first 'i' being the antepenultimate vowel.(Amer-_i_-sium)

This website has a speech thing, although I think it's American centric: http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Am/key.html

[fireflyfaery.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

See, Lee, I was right. When in doubt, think egocentric Americans. :P