Another hot weekend

Once again we battled heatwave conditions over the weekend. The end of the heat is in sight this Thursday with a forecast of 27C. On Saturday we decided to drive through the Adelaide Hills to Mt Pleasant for the annual agricultural show. It was a traditional show with a lot of animals for the boys to see and pat. Both boys were quite taken by the alpacas with their long necks and big dark eyes. We had hope to see some chickens but the poultry exhibits were cancelled due to the heat. William and Oliver enjoyed eating fairy floss, feeding balls into the mouths of the sideshow clowns and going on rides by themselves for the first time. Oliver has no fear and was quite happy to be strapped into the ladybug ride. William was sitting behind him and initially appeared rather worried. As soon as the ride started the little car drove up and down the hills fairly quickly. Once the boys understood what was happening they had huge grins on their faces and had a ball.
Today we set off for the southern vales. The boys slept all the way as we had taken them to play in Marshmallow Park in the morning. Initially we drove to Port Willunga and enjoyed fantastic flathead and chips while sitting overlooking the green-blue sea. It was too hot to actually go down to the beach but we hope to return sometime soon to do so. We then went to visit Fox Creek winery. Here you can see William looking at one of the wooden sculptures in the garden of the winery. There were wooden emus, a biplane and several wooden spirals hanging from the trees. I bought two bottles of the 2006 Short Row shiraz here.