(r)Adelaide

June 7th-8th

Adelaide Arcade shopping centre with Australian emblem above

Today I arrived in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, one of the six Australian states. I'm staying at a college (similar to a sorority/fraternity) with my friend Erin.

Adelaide is known as the city of parks and churches

Adelaide is teensy tiny compared to Sydney, 1.2 million spread out over heaps of space. It's like going from Boston, MA to Burlington, VT. It's a cute city. Tomorrow we are going to the zoo.

Funni the panda at Adelaide Zoo

Today we ate lunch then went to the Adelaide zoo to see the pandas. The zoo was one of the best ones I've ever been to. It featured some interesting animals.

Meerkats from southern Africa

The Meerkat is still a favourite of mine, with its constant digging and running around. I've been to heaps of zoos at this point in Australia, but each one has been unique and interesting, as I haven't seen half the animals in these zoos before coming to Australia. There are so many marsupials with cute little babies in their pouches.

Scared

Monkey at the zoo

From the zoo we walked to the city center. Adelaide is not the shopping mecca that Sydney is, but it is very quaint with nice pedestrian only shopping areas. It's gorgeous with trees and parks everywhere and buildings nice and spread out.

Pedestrian only shopping area

We walked to Rundle Street, the main shopping area and Erin showed me an international candy store. This store had root beer, which is rarer than a dodo bird in Australia. It's been 5 months since I last tasted root beer. It was like rediscovering it for the first time.

I need to look up who this Flinders guy is because he is important enough
to have a statue and to have a university named after him

On the way back to Erin's college, we quickly perused through the Art Gallery of South Australia. Were going to get dinner later (Italian with a free bottle of wine), and at 8 PM Erin's college is throwing her a going away party!

Genetically modified ape lady holding a human baby at the Art Gallery of South Australia

Cheers!


Jono