Almost home

We are driving back from Adelaide and having a last night staying in Hay at the Bidgee Motor Inn. In fact we are just back from the local pub and a gianormous meal. No one told us that a dish for one person here could actually feed four road-train drivers. Hubby can never leave food and has been know to eat up everything uneaten on the kids' plates in the past,  but this time he had to cede to defeat and leave half of his portion. I had given up ages ago,  I guess we are not farmworkers needing our 8.000 calories per meal like the rest of the clients in the pub.

Anyhow we have had a great time on this trip, and I really like Adelaide.  Before we left Sydney some people poo-pooed it for various reasons, but I really like it. It was small enough to find your way around and big enough to have a lot going on.

I have been to museums and to the Barossa Valley and also to a very German town called Hahndorf. I have also been to the art museum and the opal museum and some other ones as well. Here is one of the pieces of art that was chosen as a favorite in the art gallery, when the public was asked to pick the ones they wanted to be exposed. I think it symbolized early motherhood!

In Hahndorf it was all very German and the reason was that many Germans settled there when they came from Europe in the early 1800 due to religious persecution back home. The restaurants and the pubs are filled with German food. I had a bratwurst und kartoffel salat,  yum, sehr gut!!

I have much more to tell but it is bed time so let me leave you with this little saying that I saw in one of the wineries that I visited, and where, by the way, they sold chocolate wine.