Today was the 2014 Adelaide Color Run at the Victoria Racecourse in Adelaide. We had to get up at 5:45 (which was harder for some due to the previous night's antics) and head for Adelaide. We arrived at the run right after 8:00 am and headed down to the crowd of 14,000 runners. It was an amazing experience to see that many people in one area all with the same goal in mind...get colored! Layla did really well on the course, running half and walking half and after...

Friday was a school holiday to attend the Royal Adelaide Show which is Adelaide's equivalent of the Calgary Stampede without a rodeo. Clare High School had some goats and steers in the show so I wanted to head down and visit with the kids to see how they placed, unfortunately they all went home on Thursday. We got to the show at about noon and were immediately surrounded by the sights, smells and sounds of a carnival. We took an hour or so to take in all of the...

On Saturday we headed in to Adelaide after Layla was done playing netball against BBH (they won too!). We got there early to do some shopping and hang out at Rundle Mall where Layla saw her first arrest by a police officer. We walked down to the Adelaide Oval at about 4:30 thinking we would have a very long, lonely time at the stadium, but upon reaching the river we saw the thousands of people already lining up to get their tickets and seats. We were lucky enou...