The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Adelaide is probably one of the most amazing cities on the face of the planet with so much to do. Everything is so clean, its a large city but easy to get around, and there's tons of free transportation around the city if you don't feel like walking.

Yesterday, our apartment complex, aka The Village, had a BBQ for the residents in the courtyard across from our apartment. So after I had my inspection (pretty much just to see if anything needed to be fixed in the apartment) I headed down for free food. I ended up spending a couple hours in the courtyard meeting and talking to people from all over. A couple of the girls and I decided to head out that afternoon to go shopping and check out the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

We took a free tram over to East Terrace and went shopping in an outdoor market that's put on every Saturday. It was on a street that had been blocked off and was basically goods that people had made and shops that were putting out discounted clothes. One of the first booths we stopped at was a magic shop selling tricks and in doing so, putting on a free show to display the tricks you could buy. We wandered around for a little bit before heading to the end of the street and the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

Now, coming up in Adelaide is something called the Adelaide Fringe Festival which is this giant arts festival held for 3 and a half weeks in the parks surrounding Adelaide. It's the second biggest Arts festival in the world and there's over 200 events going on every day. There's live music, theatre, puppetry, comedy, art, anything you could possibly think of that has to do with the visual arts pretty much. The Garden of Unearthly Delights is something like a precursor to the fringe. For about a week in a park in the east terrace is this great big circus of sorts. There's booths, carnival rides, bands and various sideshows. There's even something called a silent disco which was started in some European country. What they do is give you headphones and you're tuned into a frequency. Everyone dances to the music on their headphones so anyone walking by will just see a large group of people dancing in silence.

The weather has been absolutely beautiful around here- between 30 and 35 degrees Celsius which is something around 85 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit with a cool breeze that keeps it comfortable. Staying inside just seems like a crime.

Later that night, one of my apartment mates showed up. Shes from Indiana and is about American as they come and incredibly nice and friendly. We spent the night talking and watching Castle. We've also come to the definite conclusion that we're sharing the apartment with two boys and are now just awaiting their arrival.