Unexpected Great Day

(pictures to be posted later...)

[Note: This was the most unexpected productive day ever.  And when I say productive I don't mean that I had a list of things to do and got to check them off, but everything I did do seemed purposeful and worth it.  There was no wasted time.]

Saturday, after the End of Vintage party, I woke up expecting to have a slow day, fighting of a hang over.  To my surprise, there was no hang over to be had! Yea, I have some unidentified party bruises, but nothing that could stop me from doing things.  I decided to walk to Nuri to hang out with Carissa; there really is not much else to do with out a car.  

We decided to go get lunch at the Chicken Shop.  I was not that hungry so I just got a Coke.  And let me tell you that the Cokes here are shit.  They lose their fizz within 5 minutes of opening.  I have had it from a can and a bottle, and both have been rather disappointing.  They need some more DCO2 (dissolved carbon dioxide) for sure.  Anyway, in small town fashion, we ran into a fellow coworker of ours, Justin.  We chatted about the night before, putting together bits and pieces of events and details; always fun to do after a big night.  

Next, Carissa and I decided to go to Foodland, because one lunch was just not going to suffice.  More like I did get hungry and I didn't want anything from the Chicken Shop.  Over at Foodland we ran into another coworker of ours, Rose (small town).  She was not able to make it to the party, so we just filled her in on some events: lawn balls, dancing and karaoke.  we tried not to make the party sound too fun so she was not upset that she didn't get to go…so we stuck to talking about lawn balls.  So not a fun sport…very slow…very very very slow.

I ended up getting a smoothy (nommmage) and we headed back home.  But first I wanted to stop into the sports store and look for a ball.  I miss playing sports and every time there is a ball around I try to rally with it or just throw it around.  So, though I should have bought this 3 months ago when I got here, I bought a volleyball!! It is a super cheap volleyball but it gets the job done.  I have barely stopped setting it around since I got it.  

Once back at Carissa's we decided to watch a movie.  She somehow has a copy of "The Silver Linings Playbook" with Bradley Cooper.  How can one say no to a movie with Bradley Cooper in it? For the first 3/4 of the movie, I was confused.  The two main characters are basically crazy but not thaaatt crazy.  I don't know.  But in the end I did like the movie a lot and felt it was not a waste of time.  

Next, we decided to go pick up our bikes from Bec's house.  A couple weeks ago when we tried to bike to Angaston and ended up getting stranded because Carissa's bike tire popped, Bec's boyfriend, Hilly, picked up our bikes and stored them and their house.  FINALLY, we decided to retrieve them.  It was fun too because this was another coworker that we could reminisce about the night with. We got her stories, she got ours, good gossip time.  

Now, with bikes at our disposal, we went on an adventure and biked down a back road just to try and get a good view of the sun setting.  The sky was too cloudy to have a magnificent sunset but it was still really nice.  It was not too cold or too hot and we just leisurely biked along the road.  To make mattered even better we found on the road a sign that just said "BAROSSA" in big yellow letters.  Literally painted on the road.  Photo OP! We set our bikes aside and took a bunch of pictures with this word.  It is the little things that excite us the most I guess because we felt we had found gold!

The sun had set now and so we had to start heading home so we would not get in trouble for not having headlights on our bikes.  We did not quite time that right, because we hopped off our bikes a little bit away from Foodland, and walked.  What we did do right was accidentally run into an old car parade of some sort.  There were like 20 Chitty Chitty Bang Bangs rolling down the street, honking and waving at people.  The cars looked so cool! They looked super roomy too, like way more comfy than some cars today.  

At this point, Carissa and I decided that this was a really solid day.  Nothing was planned but everything was great! We ran into people we knew and things that we really wanted to see (but did know until we saw it).  On a sad note, this was the last Saturday for Carissa in the Barossa.  She leaves next week!!!!!! How did this time go so fast?!?!?!?