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Adelaide without kids

I turned 31 last week. Thirty one. Turning 30 is a huge deal, it’s kind of a milestone of sorts. But 31? That just makes me feel old. I became friends with The Jess’ (my sister in law) friend Romana 5 years ago when we were both pregnant at the same time. Hannah and her daughter Violet are now best friends, and we’re good friends too. For her birthday, she decided to visit The Jess in Adelaide. Without Violet. She asked if I wanted to go too. A girls weekend away, seeing The Jess, and a break from the kids…how could I say no? Plus my birthday is a day after hers (although she is 3 years younger than me), so we made it a birthday weekend away, all by ourselves. Yep, I left the kids at home for another round of Daddy daycare.

Our plane

Originally, we planned to don cute dresses and go out dancing. Not that I’m good at dancing, I don’t have a rhythmic bone in my body, but I still love doing it, and don’t get to very often. Dancing and ~~morning~~ all day sickness don’t really go together very well though, so we gave the dancing a miss. No, I’m not the pregnant one, that would be The Jess. She and Jim are expecting their very first baby in October. Or maybe babies. Twins do run in the family….

Instead, we giggled way too much playing Cards Against Humanity whilst downing copious amounts of chocolate. Romana and I also giggled like school girls at a sleep over when we went to bed. Air travel gives me gas, gas is funny, and I had lots of it all night. Hence the giggles. I’m not sure why I just shared that with you, but I am sure that many of you are secretly laughing and/or sympathising, so why not?

The next day we went to the beach, but not to swim because we both forgot our swimsuits. Plus the water felt like it was about 0 degrees, and who wants to swim in freezing cold water? Excuse my photos, they were all taken on my phone (so they are not exactly of high quality).

The Jess’ “oh-my-gosh-this-water-is-freezing” face as she puts her feet in the water

Pregnant women need rest, so we watched Bridesmaids at Jess’ house after having lunch and decadent dessert at a chocolate cafe.

My bailey’s mousse and ganache deliciousness

The Jess eating her dessert

The Jess and Romana at the chocolate cafe

It just so happened that the Fringe Festival was on whilst we were there, so in the afternoon, we headed into the city to have a look.

Jess decided to join the circus

Me and The Jess. We couldn’t help ourselves. I’m still not sure why Hoe was randomly written on a wall. I don’t normally wear leopard print, but Jess and Romana wanted me to, so I did. It’s Jess’ dress.

I’ve seen freak shows in movies before, but I didn’t know they actually existed. Guess what? They do.

Lizard man. He shot an arrow and another guy caught it blindfolded. As you do.

Rubber man. He makes like Gumby and gets his whole body through some tennis racquets.

This guy has like 26 world records for swallowing things. That balloon he’s holding? Swallowed the entire thing, followed by a sword which popped it, followed by a giant pair of tongs which retrieved the popped balloon. Gross yet fascinating.

The next day, we went home. I wish I could have stayed longer, but you know, a family, and uni stuff awaited me back home, so it was just 2 nights and 1.5 days and then a flight back home.

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