Here's hoping things pick up from here!  Had a great weekend.  Friday night we had our beach picnic.  The weather was amazing - it was 34 during the day and by the time we met up around 7 pm, was down to the high 20s.  We carted over a ridiculous amount of food to West Lakes Beach and spread out a picnic blanket to put our feast on.  Claire, the hostess, made coconut prawns and macadamia & coconut encrusted chicken with a selection of dipping sauces.  SO TASTY!  Jeremy made guacamole and I tried my hand at a jug of mojitos.  Other people also brought an abundance of delicious food...cheesecake, regular cake, baclava...and we even roasted s'mores on a camping oven that someone brought to the beach.  After dinner we ran into the ocean, which was just so pleasant...myself and one of the other people stayed in for ages, just floating around and looking at the stars.  Love this place!

Saturday Jeremy was lucky enough to be working a 10 hour cover shift and it sounds like a very busy one.  He even saved his first life!  I won't write about that, but anyone who feels like it can ask him about the experience.  I had an interview at a private practice on the other side of the city.  I felt like it was a good interview (I'm getting some practise in!) but I'm not holding my breath and would probably actually turn it down if it was offered to me.  She said she was inundated with applications (yep, no jobs in this city, doesn't surprise me) and she'll be letting people know by the end of the week.

Sunday we went on a wine tour, which we found on a deal website for 50% off.  Two for the price of one, basically.  We enjoyed hanging out together and sampling the wines, but both agreed that of the several tours we've been on, it was our least favourite.  The guide was very knowledgeable and informative, but sounded very rehearsed and was very rigid with time schedules and got upset if people on the bus were talking to each other.  In comparison, our last tour guide in the Tamar Valley was very relaxed and seemed to truly enjoy himself.  He had a good sense of humour, was flexible in the activity choice, and realized that he was there to enhance the experience, not to run it.  I really enjoyed stopping in at Grant Burge which has some very nice sparkling wine, so that was a highlight.  We also stopped to have a look at the "Wailing Wall" (oops - correction, the Whispering Wall...there was some Harry Potter influence right there!), which Jeremy had already been to on his trip with Sean a couple of years ago...but it was a first for me and it was pretty cool!

Oops - I forgot to mention that our first stop was the biggest rocking horse in the world!  You can see J up top by the tail.  Usually I would have insisted on going up as well, but I came here with Lisa a few weeks ago when she was visiting and we did it then.  She has all the pictures though, and she never posts them!!!!

Here we are at Wolf Blass after our first tasting of the day.

I'm at the far side of the Whispering Wall.  Jeremy was waaaay far away and we could hear each other really clearly.  It was neat!  Here's some more stuff about the dam/whispering wall:
Barossa Reservoir is a reservoir in South Australia, built between 1899 and 1902 to supply water to Gawler and other northern country areas. At the time of its completion, the reservoir was hailed as an engineering marvel, and at a total of 36 metres, was the highest in Australia.^[1] The thin arch of the dam retaining wall, curved against the pressure of the water, was an innovation considered radical, and attracted the Reservoir international attention.^[2] It was featured in the Scientific American and caused the American Engineers News to remark that its "boldness of design deserves to rank with the most famous dams in the world".^[2] Nowadays, the dam is notable for its parabola effect, where a voice can be heard clearly from one side to the other — over 140 metres, end to end. This unusual acoustic phenomenon is a popular tourist attraction, and has earned the dam the title "Whispering Wall" (see Whispering gallery).^[3]