Happy Halloween

I've been in Adelaide for almost a week now but still haven't actually seen Adelaide. I have been seeing plenty and hanging out with two of my favorite people in the world, Myst and Maximus from camp, so I am not complaining. Plus it looks like I might be here for a while so I have plenty of time to see everything (which apparently isn't too much) in the city. I arrived in Adelaide last Thursday morning after flying all night from Perth so I spent most of my first day sleeping. When Myst and Max got home from work we began to catch up on everyting that had happened in the past year, since this was their first summer not at camp in 5 years. Friday I ended up lounging around their house again and then we all went out to dinner with Myst's parents and brother at the Chinese restaurant that they "always go to." The three of us arrived at a restaurant and waited a while before calling Myst's family to see why they were late. The conversation, which I heard one sided from Myst's cell phone, went a little like this. "umm, are you coming? What do you mean you're there, we're there. Where are you? Umm, that is not the Chinese restaurant we always go to, we've been there once and we've been here about 20 times. Fine, we'll see you soon." We quickly exited the almost Chinese restaurant we were at for the new restaurant that Myst's family "always eats at." Dinner was good and it was fun to meet relatives and afterwards Myst and I went out to a pub with her brother and his friends. Myst quickly discovered that she and I and the girls her brother was friends with shared a love of musicals and invited them all over for a sleepover. i should mention that Myst is the world's most fun drunk. The next morning we both woke up on the couch and had to get ready to go to Myst's godsister's engagement party. It was another day meeting friends and relatives and eating lots of barbeque and desserts. We also discovered from Myst's father that she had broken a toilet the night before. We were both very confused and decided that she must have broken one at the pub and forgotten it and that her brother had told her dad. It turned out she had broken one in her house in the middle of the night by slamming the lid down and then woken up Max to tell him. Oops. The next day we all went to lunch at one of Myst's friends' houses where I met a bunch of her high school friends. This was another full day of eating and drinking champagne. After the luncheon max and I dropped off Myst and her friend Vanessa at their house and then went on a spree to find an open grocery store (a difficult task in Australia on a Sunday evening since most stores close at 5) so that we could bake chocolate chip cookies. We got back home a little over an hour to find that Myst and Vanessa had already drank a bottle of champagne and had started on the next one and were having a concert. After eating cookies and more champagne the three girls decided to watch several movie musicals and sing along while Max went to bed. we stayed up until 4 in the morning when i finally went to bed and left Myst watching the Phantom of the Opera for the seocnd time that night. It was a sunday night so the next morning i woke up and joined Myst on the couch where she was calling in sick to work. She then proceeded to sleep until about 2 in the afternoon before we watched more movies together until Max came home from work. Yesterday Myst's mother, Pat, picked me up in the morning and brought me to see a pioneer village that she had been to about 10 years ago. The village was made up of a bunch of old buildings, cars, and artifacts from around South Australia. It had seen better days. Most of the buildings were full of cobwebs and birds's nests and it was obvious no one had touched the place in many years. Pat was dissapointed but there were some interesting things to see. Next we headed off to Hahndorf, a German village. It turns out that besides British convicts there was also a large number of German settlers who came to Australia. The town had a bunch of cute shops and art galleries and German restaurants. Back at Max and Msyt's we had cheese on toast for dinner and an hour long discussion/debate about Dumbledore being outed by J.K. Rowling. There is a great article at ew.com for anyone interested. Myst and I decided to watch Harry Potter at around midnight since she was not working in the morning the next day. Sadly, we both managed to sleep until 11 today and myst still had to be into work at 3 today so our plan of seeing a museum turned into going to the mall and buying dvds and looking at travel brochures. She dropped me off at the library before heading off to work and I picked up a few books and am finally updating this blog (happy mom and dad?)Adelaide is great but don't expect too many exciting blog posts that don't involve musicals and champagne as long as I am here.