Family holiday of a lifetime turned strange when two small children were found in the elephant house of Adelaide zoo. Mum, Clare, aged 34 said 'They were behaving like wild animals so we thought they belonged in the zoo'. Zoo officials commented that the girls made a good addition to the park and a number of visitors were heard to remark on their hair.

Today began on the above note but to be fair it did improve. The period between waking up and leaving was tense punctuated by children making it worse.

We began by a walk into the city to pick up a few bits and to see a pharmacist about my skin. The upshot is I need to see a doctor about it because it needs something a little more than I can get over the counter. He has given me something to see if it helps until I can get to one. On the way back we stopped for a coffee in a coffee shop, I needed a wee so made enquires as to where the loo was, the answer was we don't have one ! I was aghast a café without a loo, so I left my latte in the charge of David and the girls while I trekked to the local department store to find a toilet. I found them and returned and thankfully my coffee was still warm. We then walked back to the hotel to pick up the car before heading out for the day. Despite the heckling from the back about 'it's not a good idea Mummy' we ended up finding a great playpark on South Terrace for the girls to play on. The sign on the gate stated that all adults needed to be accompanied by a child. The park was well laid out with something for everyone including big concrete tubes to run through, bridges to climb and slides. David found his inner teenager on the rope climbing frame and Alex did a good job of joining him. We had a picnic lunch here and left as the place was invaded by a class of schoolchildren. The school uniform here is pretty foul or at least the ones for the girls are, they are the same design as from Home and Away circa 1990 - nice ! David and I agreed that the sunhats as part of the uniform were a great idea. The playpark was obviously irrigated as the area was lovely and green unlike the remainder of the park.

We headed out of the city and managed to avoid being taken out by stupid drivers. As we drove out the feel of Adelaide changed, the inner city is spacious, brick built and definitely has shades of the colonial, the suburbs felt they owed far more to the architecture and feeling of the USA. We then drove onto the Fleurial Pennisular which started off as being pretty ordinary and we stopped at a beach for me to pop to the loo. I did not venture onto the beach which is just as well as we saw a sign later on stating it was Oz'a first unclad beach ! As we drove on we saw plenty of signs for wineries but sadly the girls are still not up for us going there particulary as Alex started asking are we nearly there yet 10 mins out of Adelaide. The countryside was lovely with rolling hills backed by a deep blue see. In terms of colour the predominate colour is brown, multiple shades but basically brown and parched looking.

We arrived at Cape Jervis in time to see the ferry before we were due to travel on dock so we decided to see if we could travel on the earlier ferry. They put us on standby so we waited nervously to see if we would fit and groaning when we saw large lorries being loaded on and also when people seemed to skip around us in the queue. I am guessing I threw one person as they started to skip round us, as I popped out to check that we were in the right place, I think they thought I was having a go as they staled their car and did not move again! We were lucky enough to get the ferry and it was exciting for David as he had the job of reversing the car onto the ferry into a pretty small gap, small enough so I was told to pop out as it would be a bit of a squeeze ! The journey across was fine and we kept being joined by a little boy called Max who was 18 months and pretty loud. David then drove the car off the ferry and the girls and I disembarked as foot passengers. It is at times like this I realise that actually they are very good and when push comes to shove they behave well enough for me to do that without a concern.

We then drove to Kingscote and found our hotel. We are in the new building and despite an initial blip involving a bed shortage we now have a travel cot and we are set to go. The hotel only has internet access in the bistro so I think the plan is to take the laptop down for breakfast. We had a nice meal in the hotel which was not cheap but was huge, I had pork ribs which came on a massive plate and I actually think was the whole side of a pig !