By Karl and Janet
We are now in Melbourne after three interesting days in Adelaide, which we liked a lot. Andrew has a great group of friends at his residential college where students from various universities in Adelaide room and board. We took 5 of them out for a pub dinner one evening, and one of his best friends, Cody from Canada, went with us on a wine tour of the Barossa Valley. Andrew is loving his time here and is serious about trying to stay one more semester. He has initiated a process of determining if it is possible. He is playing footy (Australian rules football) and netball (an Aussie version of basketball) for his college. The apartment where we stayed in Adelaide, courtesy of an American ex-pat friend of our friends the Obermeiers in Boulder who runs a business development center at the University of South Australia, was stunning: a strikingly modern two-story, 3-bedroom penthouse on the main drag with a big balcony and a great view out over the city. We looked directly down on two museums and the university campuses of Adelaide and South Australia, and the South Australia Parliament was just down the street. Andrew's college was about a 15 minute walk away, but his classrooms at "Uni" Adelaide were right across the street from where we stayed.
Last night just after dark we were taken by our friends, Ken and Julia Coghill, to St. Kilda's pier in Melbourne's bay to watch fascinating little penguins that nest in the rocks of the pier at night after a day of fishing in the ocean.
Ken Coghill is a former speaker of the Victoria Parliament and now a professor at Monash University whom I know from NCSL. They visited us in Boulder last year, and we went all out to host them in anticipation of them paying us back in their own country. Sure enough, they took us to dinner after the penguin expedition at an Italian restaurant on funky, happening Acland St--a place we never would have gone to without friends to guide us. Today they are taking us on a tour of the peninsula that partially encloses Pt. Phillips Bay. We're hoping to see koalas and 'roos along the way.
We are now in Melbourne after three interesting days in Adelaide, which we liked a lot. Andrew has a great group of friends at his residential college where students from various universities in Adelaide room and board. We took 5 of them out for a pub dinner one evening, and one of his best friends, Cody from Canada, went with us on a wine tour of the Barossa Valley. Andrew is loving his time here and is serious about trying to stay one more semester. He has initiated a process of determining if it is possible. He is playing footy (Australian rules football) and netball (an Aussie version of basketball) for his college. The apartment where we stayed in Adelaide, courtesy of an American ex-pat friend of our friends the Obermeiers in Boulder who runs a business development center at the University of South Australia, was stunning: a strikingly modern two-story, 3-bedroom penthouse on the main drag with a big balcony and a great view out over the city. We looked directly down on two museums and the university campuses of Adelaide and South Australia, and the South Australia Parliament was just down the street. Andrew's college was about a 15 minute walk away, but his classrooms at "Uni" Adelaide were right across the street from where we stayed.
Last night just after dark we were taken by our friends, Ken and Julia Coghill, to St. Kilda's pier in Melbourne's bay to watch fascinating little penguins that nest in the rocks of the pier at night after a day of fishing in the ocean.
Ken Coghill is a former speaker of the Victoria Parliament and now a professor at Monash University whom I know from NCSL. They visited us in Boulder last year, and we went all out to host them in anticipation of them paying us back in their own country. Sure enough, they took us to dinner after the penguin expedition at an Italian restaurant on funky, happening Acland St--a place we never would have gone to without friends to guide us. Today they are taking us on a tour of the peninsula that partially encloses Pt. Phillips Bay. We're hoping to see koalas and 'roos along the way.
