Adelaide - Day 13
I've been wanting to blog about this day since like forever... one of the reasons why i wanted to go to Aussie, and I mentioned this b4, was to go horse-riding and wakeboarding. I didnt manage to accomplish the wakeboarding part cuz i'd have to go to special schools allocated for the sport. However, i did go horse-riding!! one of the ocf member's churchmates opened their house for international students and lydea, weiqin, rach and i went to their farm at Coromandel Valley to ride their horses. On the way there, i bought myself a hotdog from a barbie (BBQ, it's very Aussie) stand. it's a bbq hotdog on bread along with grilled onions and sauce.
The family has two dogs, Benjamin and Grace (in pic with lydea). Sadly though, Ben was set to be put to sleep the following week cuz he had cancer. Margie, who owns the farm with her husband, accompanied us throughout the whole horse-riding experience. They have 3 horses - Sprat (blue reins), Jess (green reins) and Kaoru (blue blanket). I rode Sprat first. He's a very naughty horse and kept pulling the reins out of my hand. Then he would gallop off, so i had to grab the saddle or i'd fall off. Jess is much tamer, but less exciting as well. Kaoru is the sweetest thing. We couldnt ride him, cuz in human years he's like 90years old alr. all of them are covered with blankets since it's winter, and margie had to take the blankets off Sprat and Jess and replace them with the saddles. She told us that there were 3 main stages of horse-riding. First would be the walk, which is slow and steady, then the trot, which goes faster and bumpier. Finally, the gallop which is very quick and smooth. I had a great time..it's been quite long since I've riden a horse so I really enjoyed the wonderful morning.
After that we went back to Flinders and had our lunch in the car. Then rach and i headed out for Brighton beach. This is the second brighton beach that we visited, the first being in Melbourne. Like Glenelg, it had little shops along the street and the sea was just fab. Rach also brought me to this Marilyn Monroe cafe that she had been tellin me about. We split a malteasers cheesecake (yes, you can imagine how good it was) before we saw that they had Mars cheesecake too! dang.. would have so loved to try the mars cheesecake but the malteasers one was too rich. After Brighton, we went to dan murphey's to get some wines. We got another long flat moscato and a gossips sweet wine. For dinner we cooked Chinese consisting of veg, satay chicken and mushroom omelette. We also had the ice cream mooncakes (sago cream with mango and pomelo) that I bought for rach, plus we drank the wine too! That was my last night in Australia and this post wraps up the whole Australia travel blog ;) Buon appetito!
oh btw, just a couple of photos of where I stayed for the one week in Rachel's room in Adelaide - my nice airbed and sleeping bag!
The family has two dogs, Benjamin and Grace (in pic with lydea). Sadly though, Ben was set to be put to sleep the following week cuz he had cancer. Margie, who owns the farm with her husband, accompanied us throughout the whole horse-riding experience. They have 3 horses - Sprat (blue reins), Jess (green reins) and Kaoru (blue blanket). I rode Sprat first. He's a very naughty horse and kept pulling the reins out of my hand. Then he would gallop off, so i had to grab the saddle or i'd fall off. Jess is much tamer, but less exciting as well. Kaoru is the sweetest thing. We couldnt ride him, cuz in human years he's like 90years old alr. all of them are covered with blankets since it's winter, and margie had to take the blankets off Sprat and Jess and replace them with the saddles. She told us that there were 3 main stages of horse-riding. First would be the walk, which is slow and steady, then the trot, which goes faster and bumpier. Finally, the gallop which is very quick and smooth. I had a great time..it's been quite long since I've riden a horse so I really enjoyed the wonderful morning.
After that we went back to Flinders and had our lunch in the car. Then rach and i headed out for Brighton beach. This is the second brighton beach that we visited, the first being in Melbourne. Like Glenelg, it had little shops along the street and the sea was just fab. Rach also brought me to this Marilyn Monroe cafe that she had been tellin me about. We split a malteasers cheesecake (yes, you can imagine how good it was) before we saw that they had Mars cheesecake too! dang.. would have so loved to try the mars cheesecake but the malteasers one was too rich. After Brighton, we went to dan murphey's to get some wines. We got another long flat moscato and a gossips sweet wine. For dinner we cooked Chinese consisting of veg, satay chicken and mushroom omelette. We also had the ice cream mooncakes (sago cream with mango and pomelo) that I bought for rach, plus we drank the wine too! That was my last night in Australia and this post wraps up the whole Australia travel blog ;) Buon appetito!
oh btw, just a couple of photos of where I stayed for the one week in Rachel's room in Adelaide - my nice airbed and sleeping bag!
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