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I'm back, and all the photos are imaginary

Note - I wrote this blog post, and then plugged my phone in to get the photos that I took on the trip off, and they have completely vanished. So you'll just have to use your imaginations!

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We started our holiday with a weekend in Queenscliffe. We shared a house with some friends, including Skip, who actually likes taking photos! He's my official photographer, and he took some lovely photos of my latest jumper, and then he did fancy things on his computer to make the light look right, but he hasn't emailed them through yet. But I promise they are lovely.

And then we went to Adelaide for the Fringe and saw lots of great shows and did lots of stuff, but I'm only going to tell you about the yarn beast related stories.
The hotel we were staying at had this in the foyer:

[pretend there is a photo here]

It's a sheep's head that is covered in crystals. I thought it was pretty.

One day Leon and I went for a run. We decided to run to the brewery in Lobethal, in the Adelaide Hills - well not all the way, we caught a bus to 15 kilometres away. We ran on a route that took us straight through an Alpaca farm! And there were loads of them, and they all looks at us curiously as we trotted past. I'd say we had alpaca company for a good three kilometres. So, that was fun.[ Imagine a picture of alpacas in a vineyard. Very cute]

On the Saturday I  went to look up the bus timetable to go to the Port Adelaide Markets to see Mel from Stranded in Oz, and discovered that the markets are no longer open on Saturdays. So no yarn for me this trip. 

And throughout I knit away on Leon's Winter Set (2015). I  don't have photos of that though, the two photos in this post are the only pictures I took all trip! You'll just have to imagine that, too

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