Adelaide, Part the 1st

Saturday morning we were all up bright and early (7am) to get to Melbourne and catch the plane. Matt, Max, Caddie, Bel and I all piled into Maxy's Magna and kicked off the trip.
It's pretty much customary to stop at the Mcdonalds in Glenrowan (about half way to Melbourne) every time you go there. I hadn't had breakfast, and almost cried when Max, being the arsehole that he is, cruised straight past it.
I had to make do with a roast pork roll from a truckstop about another hour up the road. I remember asking for the roast beef roll. Five minutes later the lady comes out and says "Sorry mate, the only roast beef we've got is pork". I wasn't sure what this meant... the only roast beef being pork... but another ten minutes later I was hooking into a roast pork roll and some chips, which pretty much set the bar for heatlh food in the following week.
We hit Melbourne and found our parking lot without too much hassle (Andrews Airport Parking are pretty damned good!) and a dude who looked like harry from 'Harry and the Hendersons' drove us all to the airport in a courtesy bus.
The flight to Adelaide was interesting. I'd never been in a proper plane before up until then, and while I had a brief thought that my complimentary biscuits and tea might end up in the hair of the person in front of me, my stomache behaved itself all trip.
We touched down in 40 degree Adelaide and waited around for an hour for another one of our group to fly in. They've just built a new Airport in Adelaide, but our flights were still going to the old one, and it is shit. Hot as hell and the A/C wasnt working, and the tap beer was broken! Very convenient that we had to buy $7.50 a-fuckin'-bottle beers to keep cool!
We taxi'd into the middle of town to our apartments, threw our shit down and started exploring. In hindsight, we probably shoulda got there a day earlier to get our bearings, but oh well. We managed to find a bottle-o and get a slab of coronas, a box of some lovely goon, and a bottle of vodka to kick off the night. Adelaide is a very pretty town, but New Years Eve was a slight downer. It was pretty much spent wandering Adelaide, lost, not knowing where the pubs were, and somehow, with unbelievable accuracy, finding only pubs that had fuck all people in them... all damned night. New Years came, I got a kiss on the cheek from Caddie and Bel, and hit in the eye with a streamer from Max, and the first night was over.
Continued later!
-j