Glenelg, South Australia

I drove to Glenelg Monday afternoon stopping in Robe to have a look around the touristy beach town, but it was cold, cloudy and windy and thus unimpressive. I got in about 5:30pm and met my next host who is a 26 year-old player from the South Australian team named Chris Lawson. Like most of the players he has a full-time job working in marketing at the city center in Adelaide. His place is an awesome 2br flat situated two blocks from the beach and two blocks from the strip of pubs on Jetty Road. As soon as I got there we were off to the pub to have a look around, there were a ton of people for a Monday night but a lot of people are on Christmas holiday. We ended up getting a ride to a house party in Adelaide which was a lot of fun, so much fun I ended up hanging out with a couple dudes, Richie and KB, until 5am when we took a cab to a café for meat pies on our way back to Glenelg. I had made plans to meet them the next day for beach cricket (still have no idea what that means) but I didn’t run into them. Instead I took the tram into city center to have a look around and stopped at a pub for lunch to watch Monday Night Football which starts at noon on Tuesday. This is where I discovered TAB (not sure what it stands for but I’m sure Australian and Betting is involved) where you can bet on absolutely anything world-wide and they are in most pubs across Australia. I placed a $10 bet that the first score would be a GB field goal and almost won $45 if Aaron Rodgers didn’t throw a TD pass on 3rd and 7 from the 15 yard line. But with that I was headed back to the beach as things had cleared up and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I hung out on the beach for a few hours and then got the call that my flight would be leaving for Sydney at 8:30am the next morning…