Hello from Adelaide!

By popular demand, this is a photo-heavy post. To sum up: We have successfully moved from NZ to Australia and are with our good friends, the Ormsbys. We are having a great time in Adelaide, and we've been here for a full day now. Today, we went to the Barossa Valley for wine tasting and a lovely lunch (and I had my first run in about 2 weeks this morning on the beach, which was amazing), and we're finishing up a fun dinner and about to play cards. Tomorrow, it's the Adelaide city center and Saturday is a drive up the coast. Anyway, here are lost of photos and captions below...
Christmas morning bike ride-- Mike, this is for you because you thought we were so attractive in helmets.

Us on the phone talking to you all on Christmas Day.

Our Christmas Day dinner location, and Brendan looking handsome.



Two pics of the outside of our Queenstown B&B called the Dairy (where we stayed for Xmas eve and Xmas).

We left Queenstown for some DREADFUL weather, but it was okay, because we were leaving. But, we went sightseeing to Mt. Cook, which is the highest peak in NZ. It was raining and super cloudy, though, so we don't actually believe Mt. Cook exists.

After the non-sighting of Mt. Cook, we went to the town where we were staying-- Twizel. It kinda sucked, and it was the first place that was not so great in NZ-- did you know there were a lot of low riders and tricked out cars owned by teens in NZ? There are. Well, at least we had a lot of beer, and there was a laundromat next to the cafe.

Finally, we think we saw Mt. Cook the following morning as we left for our flight in Christchurch. See the tallest snowy mountain in the background-- we think that's it.

Here we are in the Antarctic Centre-- did you all know that Christchurch is the gateway to Antarctica? Well it is, and the very cool Centre is across from the Christchurch airport which was very handy for wasting time before the flight. In this photo, we are in the Antarctic storm simulation room, right before the blizzard simulation began.


Here we are in Adelaide-- actually doing some wine tasting in the Barossa. We are with our friends Emily Ormsby and her new husband Michael Van der Sommen. They toured us around the valley and took us to a lovely lunch.

This is the balcony of the Ormsby beach mansion. We are enjoying apps and wine here and are looking forward to the rest of our Adelaide vacation.