Did Someone Say SKATE?

Just as Mum and Cassie headed off back to Mildura Sunday morning, Tristo promptly appeared at the front door boards in hand and with a nice digital SLR to play with and a day full of warm sunshine.. We aimlessly headed off down the back streets exploring and adventuring, finding a pretty sweet two-level car park that joined up on the road, so we got some speed up and sessioned that for a while.. We adventured through a huge park with heaps of things to play on and there was a race track with these little bike/cars kids were racing that were surprisingly fast! Across town down south we found the Gillies St Markets which happen one a month at a little primary school and have heaps of vintage clothing (meaning hot girls) and lots of wicked food and music to check out.. We had a bit of a sus of everything on display and tried out all the samples and got some wicked little pancakes..

We eventually got lunch at the central markets in the asian food court just as they were packing up and got the $5 all you can eat special! There was stacks of little things to explore on the way up there going down random streets and alleys, lots of wicked street art and designs hidden away in courtyards off the beaten track.. We ventured back home following the torrens (the river) which has some pretty rad smooth and windy tracks which are perfect for a carve on the longboard..

Following reports of rain tuesday, we headed out to Henly Beach monday morning to explore.. We longboarded up along the beach to Grange beach and checked out the happenings down there running into some people we knew out that way.. We also checked out where the torrens meets the ocean which has a curved concrete waterfall which is the perfect winch spot, so thats now been added to the list.. Looking for cheap dinner again we found ourselves at the casino where they put on an awesome burger, beer and chips deal for less than $10! We watched the cricket for a while and explored the casino before heading to City Skate (awesome skate park under lights in the middle of the city), and everyone was just leaving so we had the whole park to ourselves and shredded for about 3 hours until we could barely move, but we learnt a bunch of new things which was sic..

Finally today (Tuesday) it was still pretty warm and the rain hadn't yet exposed itself so we jumped on the computer looking for a new skate park to explore.. We found ourselves in Mt Barker (which is in the Adelaide Hills) and explored the town, its really just another hills town with a whole bunch of bakerys and op shops.. After driving a lot of circles we found ourselves at this awesome skate park up on a hill over looking a huge lake (another perfect winch spot) and we played there for ages till we again could barely walk.. It was sic as we both learnt some more new things and skating with other people like that is awesome to push each other and progress.. There were also these young locals there killing it which was sic to watch..

All in all an awesome couple of days and im totally wrecked, but really hope it doesnt rain tomorrow for as long as possible so i can fit some more in!! Heres a couple pics of the trip along the way::

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Wendy and Cass Visit

This weekend Mum and Cassie came over to Adelaide to visit, crashing on my couch as usual. I headed down to the Boat Show at the Convention Centre Friday night to have a look at all the new boats and catch up with all the other guys going in for a look. It's always pretty rad to see the new boats but its pretty much the same every year with a few new shiny bits on the dash and stuff like that. I managed a total 2 hours talking to the reps and catching up with everyone before I was over it and bailed to go meet mum.. We did a bit of wandering around town and shopping over the weekend went out for tea to Madame Wu's a nice chinese? resuraunt, it was pretty nice.. I think Cassie got in a bit of driving on the way over here and home which is good since she just got her Learners.. I think they ate out mostly actually since my house doesn't really have any food in it at the moment.. It was a pretty chilled out weekend and always nice to have people come visit =)..

A Little Ray of Sunshine

Its been a crazy busy last week.. We had flat out rain for ages which made it really hard to get out and do anything, I went and wandered around the parade for a bit last week but got soaked so Tristo, Semi, Hickin and myself decided to drive up to the Barossa to Tanunda to Hickin's place to meet his parents and see where he lives. Up there they also have a vineyard with a pretty big dam which is full of water at the moment so we had a bit of a sus (in the dark, rain and mud with torches) to see if it was do-able to put a rail in there and winch it. It all looks good to were gonna try and get that happening in the next couple of weeks.

The next day we finally got some sunshine and everything dried up pretty quickly so Trist and I packed everything into the car and just started driving, we went and checked out this outdoor adventure store called Anaconda which has a huge rockclimbing wall in the centre and you get like 4 climbs for $3! We had a play on that and it didn't take long till our arms and legs were shaking and we had to have a break. We headed down to Glenelg (the beach) and took our longboards and skated along the Esplanade right next to the beach down to Brighton (the next pier) and visited some friends down there.. Somehow we managed to get a lift back, which was awesome since it was all uphill, and had some lunch up there. We skated up along the pat which is a bit of a river outlet to the ocean into West Beach skate park to see if it was worth driving around for a skate but it was full of feral little kids on holidays, so we bailed on that idea. There was heaps of little random detours that kept us busy all arvo and we finally made it back into town and headed down to the Havey (a pub) where they have 2 Pints and 2 Parmy's for $20 which was awesome, except I parked down a side street near some houses for an hour and got a ticket because apparently I needed some permit.. So my cheap dinner turned out to be not so cheap after all. Anyways heres some pics of what went down:

Weekend in Mildy

Spent the weekend back home catching up with everyone was really good to get away from Adelaide for a while since my house is soo quiet at the moment with everyone away on holidays. Went out wakeboarding and taught mum how to ride my longboard (skateboard), she loved it. Tried to do a bit of a roadtrip visiting all the skateparks on the way back to Adelaide but it was raining on and off and I only managed to skate one before they all got too wet which sucked, but maybe next time. Instead I decided to take a bit of a detour and drive through the Barossa Valley and have a look at the little towns there cause I havent been out that way in a long time, was a pretty cool windy drive good for something different..

What have you done lately

Its been a busy week since exams finished.. Went out to town a couple of times, did a heap of skating hit up some parks with Tristo and did some longboarding around town with Hickin, we did a whole lap of Adelaide city exploring around the place which took like 2 hours.. I got a new phone, hit the gym a couple of times.. Lots of sleeping in and a bit of playstation.. Have been job searching, dropping my resume in a few places tomorrow.. Went and explored the parade down the road from my house and just generally keeping busy doing all the stuff I didnt have time for when uni was on.. Pretty good start to the uni break I reckon..

House Pics

Heres just a couple of pics of my place in Adelaide. Its a pretty big old house with a nice patio and bit of a backyard which is pretty sweet, there are 4 of us uni guys living here.. We've also got a bit of a gym setup goin on in the shed and the house is right near the shops and just down the road from uni so its pretty well setup..

Email Problems

My aplogies for anyone who recieve multiple emails from me today.. I've had huge trouble with uni email and it thinking everything I send is spam.. Anyways hopefully you all got the email, or at least you must have if your here so congratulations haha..

Lotto Ticket

Bought myself a ticket in the record $90 million lotto the other night, like just about every other person in Australia.. Ended up getting 4 of 7 numbers winning div6, that got me $20.. Almost enough to cover the $27 ticket i bought.. Seems that even if you win at these things you still loose :P..

End of Exams

Had my last uni exam today and they are finally all over. Only 3 more sets of exams left ever and ill be an engineer. Things went pretty well happy with how I did, looks like the study paid off. Now get to relax for a couple weeks before it all starts up again.