I never thought getting into a country would be so difficult. The flight was only 6 hours. It was a nicer plane than the one we flew to Singapore on. We finally arrived and we had to go through customs three times let alone having three different people check our customs passes. I found it to be a bit excessive, but I guess they have had some issues in the past. As we were waiting for our luggage mine came out rather quickly. Cam was starting to get a little nervous because his still wasn't coming on the belt. I think his bag was the very last bag off of the plane. But we did manage to get his bag and my bag. We went outside and waited for our bus to come and pick us up to take us to the hostel that we were staying at. We were going to be staying at a little hostel by the beach in Glenelg, which is only 15 minutes from Adelaide. Apparently the first heat of the Tour Down Under was going to be taking place there so there were workers busy getting the road ready for the bikers. So the bus that we were on was a little detoured, so we had to walk a little bit to our hostel. No biggie, I was in Australia nothing was getting me down, and on top of it all we got to see world class cyclists. Once we got all checked in we headed down to the beach to go for a stroll. We did a lot of wondering around and just taking the wonderful sights in. Glenelg is a very busy little hub with a lot going on. In the morning we were going into Adelaide to go and find the car rental location and tour around the city as well.
Day 2 in Australia.
We took the tram into Adelaide and wondered around Rundle Mall. Rundle Mall is a large outside market. There are many vendors and stores along the street. It goes for about 6-8 city blocks. It was nice walking around there first thing in the morning before it got really busy. Besides we wanted to spend the day on the beach. So we wondered over to find the car rental location so that we could find it easily the next morning. Once we finished up in town we headed back out to Glenelg on the tram. The beach was really windy that day and we had the aerosol sun screen so we thought we did a pretty good job putting on the sunscreen, until later that night when we were both pretty burned. Cam got it a little worse than me. Our Hostel was hosting a BBQ, so we opted to eat supper there, and save a few dollars. After we went for a walk to watch the tour down under bike race.
When we went back to the hostel we joined some people for some drinks. Oh I forgot to mention that our hostel had a bar in the basement of it. They were a lot of fun, we went out the a club with a group of them. Cam and I enjoyed exchanging terminology with some of the locals and learning new ways of saying things. Once we returned to our room we had to pack and get ready to head out early in the morning to our next destination.
