Adventures in the Braossa

Nuriootpa is the city I live in and Tanunda is a city that is about 8k away. Most of the time, Nuri closes down early so we head to Tanunda for exciting nights out.

A few weeks ago, we discovered the brewery there. There have an awesome cider for me and some good beer for the others. Anyways we had a good night out over there on a night that started out as, 'lets get a couple beers at the brewery and call it a night.'

At the end of the night Quentin (my roommate) and I were ready to go home. We had gotten a ride to Tanunda from Paul (he had to work the next day so he went home early) but needed to get a ride home. We thought about getting a taxi, but then remembered that it is pretty expensive for such a short ride. Quentin then had an idea, "lets hitch hike!" I told him, "no we cant my mom will kill me!" .... long story short, we ended up attempting to hitch hike in this small tourist town but no one picked us up and we ended up walking the whole way home, in flip flops. Our dogs were barkin!!!

We have come to the conclusion that we weren't picked up because we looked like hippies. It was a Friday, so I had by tie-dye Friday Modesto shirt on, and Quentin was wearing some flowy Aladdin pants with his crazy curly hair and bandanna on.



Last night, Andrea and I wanted to go out in Tanunda (Kaitlyn the other American girl lives there,and like I said before its a more lively place). Again we didn't want to have to pay for a taxi both ways so we decided to ride bikes there and cab it home! The bike laws in Australia are very strict (Robert Pattinson (Twilight) got a ticket for biking with out a helmet back in Jan, and you know they mean business when a celebrity cant get out of a ticket).

Andrea wanted to be an "Italian Stallion" and put gel in his hair, so he didn't want to wear his helmet. I explained to him we needed to but he still denied. It was dark out as well so we should have had some sort of light. But we didnt..... We rode for about 10 min when a cop finally stopped us. He asked Andrea where his helmet was and where our lights were. Andrea said sorry, the cop gave me some props for wearing my helmet and then told us to walk our bikes home. So we did. He also informed us that this stop could have been a $250 fine! In the famous words of Andrea. "Thats INCREDIBLE!"

The incident was much more dramatic and hilarious that it seems here, because of Andrea's lack of understanding/English isn't 100%.