So it’s nearly time. We leave for Vietnam at 6.20am tomorrow with a 6 hour stopover in Sydney. Pretty exciting!!! Not looking forward to packing tonight though, and fingers crossed we have no problems obtaining our visa at the airport when we get there. Yay, off to Vietnam!!!

So, what will we be leaving behind? Well, things here in Adelaide have been quite lively of recent. The last few weeks we have had both the Fringe and...(sense of anticipation building) the World Police and Fire Games!!! My friend Kylee and I went to the opening ceremony last weekend because her husband Darren was a volunteer, and it was really quite amusing (I never thought I would be so entertained by something like that!). The opening ceremony is something of a take off of the Olympic opening ceremony. All the teams from around the world (60 countries I think) march in and around with their flags etc, there’s music (choir boys and rogue traders), speeches by “digniataries” and the lighting of the torch. In the course of the ceremony, I learnt that Spanish firemen and policemen can really dance and that South African firemen and policemen can really REALLY dance. Wish I had had my camera actually!

So, on the whole it was a fun night out. It’s great just to roam the city at the moment, with all the foreign visitors, street acts here for the fringe (I love watching them, so entertaining!!)…and all the 8000 plus firemen from all over the world too!! It’s pretty funny actually, but it’s a good time to be in the city. Everything else has been extremely busy, but generally good.

Hopefully my next post will be from Vietnam :0)! Did I mention that I'm excited!?!