well, what HAS happened since new year's?!? i can tell you it has all gone VERY fast. february is just hotter than a... well, i have plenty of inappropriate metaphors to put there and it's too late for me to think of a clean one, so i'll just let you insert your own. and i hardly remember february anyway because my brain was melting, both due to the heat and to early pregnancy (which largely left me useless and lethargic on the couch...). so that's february.
which brings us to march. march is festival month in adelaide. and the weather is a perfect 25-30 deg c. beautiful late summer/early fall days (think september). we are visited by the adelaide festival, the adelaide fringe festival, world music adelaide and clipsal 500 (stock car races held in the city - interesting)... the adelaide festival and fringe festival overlap each other and both offer a huge variety of venues including visual art, performance (from street to cabaret to opera to musical to comedy to burlesque to circus, etc). it is a very fun time to be in adelaide.
mom and dad whitehurst came to visit for the month, but before they got here (as adelaide festival and fringe both started before they arrived) we went to a few incredible events.
an incredible pyrotechinic show, called "a little more light" kicked off the adelaide festival. we went early with brian and jessica and had a picnic dinner on the grass. nova, as usual, loved the party. we got better seats than we realized and the loud bangs and eerie, live euro music freaked out our usually fearless nova. she finally turned to me and said, "i gotta get outta here!" so i spent the last 30 min of the show walking away from the grounds backward so i could see as much as possible while carrying nova with a blanket over her head singing her a lullaby. finally, when i got an acceptable (to nova) distance away, i was able to sit down and and sing and rock her in my lap. i'm afraid i might have looked like had more on board than bbq chicken legs....
one of the fringe venues, amacoco, included this wild blow-up structure that you walked around in. the structure is hand made and has strategically placed pieces of color material so you get a wild light effect inside. all these pictures look like i changed them in photo shop, but this is the original exposure... obviously all these pics are of nova, but it reminds me of "alice in wonderland".
this is NOT amacoco or anything that has to do with adelaide festival madness... nova and i visited cleland wildlife preserve, an area up in the adelaide hills full of native animals. you can feed kangaroos, wallabies and emus (which, being raised in a country with national parks full of bears, wolves and buffalo where you most decidedly can NOT feed the animals, it took me some time to overcome my childhood conditioning... especially when you have a look at the toenails/claws on these creatures. it's like feeding a deer head attached to velociraptor feet. sort of). anyway, nova loved it - except for the green-beaked geese that chased us for the food. for once she didn't care to wander too far from mom...
nova feeding a wallaby.
next up, festivals and traveling with mom and dad whitehurst.
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