Goodbye Leigh and Alex

As Adam was at the Grand Prix still and the grape picking season was coming to an end Christophe and I decided to visit the employment office to see if there was any other work around. We searched on their website but it seems there is not much call for pickers in the South Australia State and so we would have to think about what else to do. We decided to drown our sorrows at Sevenhill pub so after picking up a dvd for the week (The Women) and getting a bite to eat we drove to the pub. It felt a bit wrong to be at a pub at 12pm but there was nothing else to do. We got chatting to man called Pete who apparently laid the foundations to Bryvon Homestay and he asked me if i had ever seen a didgeridoo. I told him i had seen one but not played one. So he dashed to his car and came back with a didgeridoo in his hand. He then proceeded to play. He passed it over to me and asked me to have a go, well there is obviously an art to it because no matter how hard i tried I couldn’t get any music from it.
The next day after work I picked Adam up from the bus stop and we had dinner with Yvonne and Brian as we all listened to Adam’s weekend away.
On Wednesday 1st April Boxie came over for dinner and brought 2 bottles of his homemade wines. He met Brian and Yvonne and we chatted till late in the evening about everything and nothing. Boxie offered us some WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) work. So we decided as the time spent at his could be put towards our 2nd yea visas we would go and stay with him for a little while as from the 15th April.
Christophe had invited us round to have dinner at Keeda’s on Thursday. Keeda is a winemaker who works for O’Leary Walker. At the dinner we met some of Keeda’s friends who all seemed to be either winemakers as well or in the winemaking industry. Adam thought it was a great opportunity to try some more wines and seek the knowledge of the winemakers. However as expected they all picked their own products to be the best, I suppose we will just have to carry on with the taste testing – someone has to do it!
On Friday we were due to start work at 7.30am, however it had just started raining and after an hour of waiting to find out if the winemaker wanted to go ahead with the picking or not we were quite happy that it was cancelled as picking grapes in the wind and rain is no fun. The picking had been rearranged for Saturday.



In the evening we had arranged to meet up with Leigh and Alex as they were leaving for Bali on Monday. Adam and I went to the Middle Pub to enjoy 2 $10 meals and waited for them and Christophe to arrive. When everyone arrived we sat in the pub just chatting away and then later Christophe went home while we went back to Alex and Leigh’s for more drinking and a final goodbye.
Saturday after work we relaxed at home and watched A bugs Life. That evening Christophe had invited us to go to Jamestown where his friend Brigette (the local French teacher) was having a birthday bbq.



We met lots of her friends and neighbours who were all very friendly and had a good time. We had thought about staying overnight in Christophe’s van (Amy George) but at 1.30am our bed sounded very appealing so I was happy to drive the one hour journey home.