Jane and I woke up to the crowing chickens around 5:30 a.m. so we went ahead and started working on the web pages. We left the house at about 7:00 a.m. and headed out to Salisbury Downs Primary School which is about 20 kilometers out of town.   My shins were sore from all the walking we did yesterday. We had already inquired as to which buses to take the day before. Adelaide has a very good bus system and Andrew had bought us discount passes for the fares even know we don't look to much like students.   The visit to the school was great.  Our mission was to take a box of things that Judy Ball Johnson's class, of  South Highland's Elementary Magnet in Shreveport, Louisiana, had sent for her exchange class here in Adelaide. Ms Chris Roe's class, at Salisbury Downs Primary School made us feel very welcome. We took a lot of pictures and videotape that Jane can bring back to the class in Louisiana. The class passed a book around and read the Twelve Australian days of  Christmas to us.  We got that on videotape with all the accents.  Ms. Chris then asked Jane to read one of the books she brought, The Cajun Night Before Christmas.  What a hoot!! Have you every heard a redneck from Shreveport (Jane) try to speak Cajun?  After we had finished exchanging US stamps and memorabilia we were assigned four 5th grade tour guides that took us all around the school. The school was a small school about the same size as Fort Myers Beach Elementary.

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The kids were great and were having fun showing us around (they didn't want to go back to class).  The people in Adelaide are very friendly and we feel very welcome visiting here.   At noon we met Andrew and Julie at the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Center to watch an Aboriginal dance presentation.  The auditorium was filled with school children.  There was a little cafe there also.  We all had "Roo" sandwiches for lunch.  Quite tasty.

Click to Zoom Chris Rowe

Andrew walked us down to Victoria Square after lunch.  Rus and I caught the tram there and headed for Glenelg Beach.  It was a nice ride through neighborhoods.  The tram ends right at the beach and the pier.  It was beautiful!   There were three distinct colors of blue as you looked farther out to sea.    On one side a row of what looked like Norfolk Pines lined the beach... that seemed unusual for right on the beach.  We had an ice cream and enjoyed the sun for a bit and then rode the tram back.   We were on our own to find our way home!!   We have walked for days now and did quite well even though we didn't know a critical street name!!  After we got back home and cleaned up we went out to dinner with Sharon and Julienne.  Sharon was one of Andrew's Aboriginal Culture teachers. We ate at an Indonesian restaurant. The day before we ate at a Lebanese restaurant and a Greek one the day before.  Jane and I just let Andrew order the meals because we don't know what a single thing on the menu is. What a culinary experience this trip it turning out to be. It has been very nice weather here and a little cool at times.  Everyone is telling us how oppressive the heat will be in Alice and Darwin. Tomorrow we catch the Ghan for a 24-hour rail trip to Alice.  Everyone says that is where you will make friends for life.  Rusty