Angela Verdenius's Blog - Posts Tagged "adelaide"
Off to RWA 2016 next week!
So Monday I and my best friend fly out to Adelaide in South Aussie. The conference isn't until Friday, so we'll have 3 days and most of Friday to explore Adelaide and all it's wonderful places. We've even booked onto a ghost tour in the old Adelaide Gaol in the early night (7pm - 9pm). It'll be dark, cold, spooky (and freezing), but we're up for it! I hope LOL. I'm prepared to be spooked! We weren't brave enough to go for the other tour, which includes being locked down into the gaol, that's a little too much.
It doesn't help when my mother tells me she hopes nothing follows me and Rae back to the hotel...then all the way home. Seriously, I read where ghost hunters did have the ghost of a little girl follow one of them back home, she saw it on her staircase. Geez, now I've had goosebumps explode down my arms. Why did Mum have to say that and remind me of what I'd read? ARGH!
Wait, I know...I'll tell Rae that right as we arrive at the tour, freak her out before we start! ROTFL!!!! (Hey, that's what friends are for!)
I'm also homesick already, doing my usual 'I wish I wasn't going' and 'Why did I agree to go?' and 'I want to stay home!' This'll last until the plane leaves the tarmac. Seeing as I'm also a bad traveler and get air sick/bus sick/sometimes taxi sick, I'll be doped on travel sick pills that'll probably make me drowsy and sleep most of the way. Ah, the good times of travel!
Haven't had much time to write this week, trying to pack a lot of stuff into boxes and store in the back room, as Mum and I have so much to do when I get back that I'm trying to save some time and get the heavy stuff boxed. New lino going down the week I get home and we have to have everything out of the house ready for the men to shift the furniture and lay down the lino, then shift everything back in and empty the back room and repeat. So the week I get back, I'm not even going to make it onto the computer! So this week no writing, next week no writing as I'll be away, and the week I get back no writing as everything will be shifting and turbulent!
In between, the cats are wary of all the packing and not knowing what's going on - Lily is meowing earnestly at me every chance she gets, Evie is head first into any box she can get into, Theo simply retires under Mum's blanket while Fleur curls up near the pillow, Lacey is prancing around all agog and wanting to know what's happening, Polly has discovered one of the igloos she couldn't be bothered with before and declared it's HER ZONE and she's going to LIVE IN IT FOREVER and only comes out of it during the day to eat, drink and use the litter tray (then at night she sleeps on the sofa) while Abby takes off to the cattery and snoozes there all day, only coming in at tea time. Go figure.
So everyone, I won't be on-line for a couple of weeks. Have fun, stay safe, and I'll chat again soon!
It doesn't help when my mother tells me she hopes nothing follows me and Rae back to the hotel...then all the way home. Seriously, I read where ghost hunters did have the ghost of a little girl follow one of them back home, she saw it on her staircase. Geez, now I've had goosebumps explode down my arms. Why did Mum have to say that and remind me of what I'd read? ARGH!
Wait, I know...I'll tell Rae that right as we arrive at the tour, freak her out before we start! ROTFL!!!! (Hey, that's what friends are for!)
I'm also homesick already, doing my usual 'I wish I wasn't going' and 'Why did I agree to go?' and 'I want to stay home!' This'll last until the plane leaves the tarmac. Seeing as I'm also a bad traveler and get air sick/bus sick/sometimes taxi sick, I'll be doped on travel sick pills that'll probably make me drowsy and sleep most of the way. Ah, the good times of travel!
Haven't had much time to write this week, trying to pack a lot of stuff into boxes and store in the back room, as Mum and I have so much to do when I get back that I'm trying to save some time and get the heavy stuff boxed. New lino going down the week I get home and we have to have everything out of the house ready for the men to shift the furniture and lay down the lino, then shift everything back in and empty the back room and repeat. So the week I get back, I'm not even going to make it onto the computer! So this week no writing, next week no writing as I'll be away, and the week I get back no writing as everything will be shifting and turbulent!
In between, the cats are wary of all the packing and not knowing what's going on - Lily is meowing earnestly at me every chance she gets, Evie is head first into any box she can get into, Theo simply retires under Mum's blanket while Fleur curls up near the pillow, Lacey is prancing around all agog and wanting to know what's happening, Polly has discovered one of the igloos she couldn't be bothered with before and declared it's HER ZONE and she's going to LIVE IN IT FOREVER and only comes out of it during the day to eat, drink and use the litter tray (then at night she sleeps on the sofa) while Abby takes off to the cattery and snoozes there all day, only coming in at tea time. Go figure.
So everyone, I won't be on-line for a couple of weeks. Have fun, stay safe, and I'll chat again soon!
I'm Back!!
So I'm back! Whooooo!!!! Yes, back home, back on-line. Tired as, and if I went to the airport right now, they'd charge me extra luggage for the bags under my eyes. But I'm back!
Adelaide was fun - my friend fed a lion, the highlight of her trip, we walked for miles (when we got back home, I'd actually lost 2 kgs!), we ate yummy food, we explored, we had fun.
It started dubiously. Instead of leaving the airport at 0840 in the morning, the plane was delayed and didn't leave until about 1300hrs! So we missed our connecting flight but the airline kindly put us on the next flight, so instead of getting to Adelaide at 1730hrs, it was about 2200hrs! But we got there!
We learned a lot, us 2 country folk who drive our own cars everywhere and have no idea of public transport. A lady on the tram kindly showed us how to get a ticket, we found our way onto the bus, and we eventually figured out how to use the hotel key card to move the lift and open our door. Yes, people, it's a sad but true fact that my friend and I couldn't work the lift. We got to the hotel late at night, and stood in the elevator with the doors opening and closing so the reception staff could watch the two idiots while we tried to follow their instructions to move the stupid lift. Finally we gave in and asked for help...then I had to go downstairs and ask for help to open the door because the key card we slid over the lock wouldn't register, so up came a helpful man (I think by then he knew we were both losers) and did it for us - on the correct door. To be fair, that wasn't totally our fault - the man downstairs accidentally told us the wrong number! However, seeing as we were too dumb to even work the lift, we forgave him - plus it was late at night and the poor bugger was probably as tired as we were! Anyone can make an honest mistake. We took it in stride and laughed like hyenas (not a pretty sound, but hey! We were tired!)
Adelaide is an amazing place. We stayed at Glenegl which is so pretty, with all these amazing shops and cafes and restaurants. Good food, walked for miles, had fun!
The convention was great, very informative, and re-inspired me. Interesting to see how many authors are becoming hybrid - doing both traditional and self-publishing.
I think before I left I was a little burnt-out, as Aaron's story wasn't coming easy and I hadn't gotten very far with it, also counting how much work Mum and I had to do before I even left. I have yet to start Aaron's story again, but hope to start tomorrow or Friday, and get back into my usual routine as I also go back to work on Monday. But I'm refreshed, and his story is starting to come together in my head (thank goodness!).
So let's see what happens!
Adelaide was fun - my friend fed a lion, the highlight of her trip, we walked for miles (when we got back home, I'd actually lost 2 kgs!), we ate yummy food, we explored, we had fun.
It started dubiously. Instead of leaving the airport at 0840 in the morning, the plane was delayed and didn't leave until about 1300hrs! So we missed our connecting flight but the airline kindly put us on the next flight, so instead of getting to Adelaide at 1730hrs, it was about 2200hrs! But we got there!
We learned a lot, us 2 country folk who drive our own cars everywhere and have no idea of public transport. A lady on the tram kindly showed us how to get a ticket, we found our way onto the bus, and we eventually figured out how to use the hotel key card to move the lift and open our door. Yes, people, it's a sad but true fact that my friend and I couldn't work the lift. We got to the hotel late at night, and stood in the elevator with the doors opening and closing so the reception staff could watch the two idiots while we tried to follow their instructions to move the stupid lift. Finally we gave in and asked for help...then I had to go downstairs and ask for help to open the door because the key card we slid over the lock wouldn't register, so up came a helpful man (I think by then he knew we were both losers) and did it for us - on the correct door. To be fair, that wasn't totally our fault - the man downstairs accidentally told us the wrong number! However, seeing as we were too dumb to even work the lift, we forgave him - plus it was late at night and the poor bugger was probably as tired as we were! Anyone can make an honest mistake. We took it in stride and laughed like hyenas (not a pretty sound, but hey! We were tired!)
Adelaide is an amazing place. We stayed at Glenegl which is so pretty, with all these amazing shops and cafes and restaurants. Good food, walked for miles, had fun!
The convention was great, very informative, and re-inspired me. Interesting to see how many authors are becoming hybrid - doing both traditional and self-publishing.
I think before I left I was a little burnt-out, as Aaron's story wasn't coming easy and I hadn't gotten very far with it, also counting how much work Mum and I had to do before I even left. I have yet to start Aaron's story again, but hope to start tomorrow or Friday, and get back into my usual routine as I also go back to work on Monday. But I'm refreshed, and his story is starting to come together in my head (thank goodness!).
So let's see what happens!
