Day 11

Jan. 30, 2012

           Before we fly off today, we are going to visit some of an actor's birthplace and look around the town some more! We also plan to have a lot of fun eating some 'scotch eggs.' We'll all find out what those are and if they actually taste good by the end of today. 
 

 Jonathan LaPaglia

        Our actor is Jonathan LaPaglia and he has acted in a wide array of shows such as Law & Order, Cold Case, Castle, and Brothers & Sisters. He is a famous Australian actor and part of the reason we are staying in this city for another day. He was born right in Adelaide and has went to the University of Adelaide. We've passed by the university and saw the campus; it was actually pretty huge.
The weird part about LaPaglia is that he has only been in a few Australian productions. Almost all of the movies and shows he's been in have been American produced and made! Apparently, he even had to work and get a trainer to get his Australian accent back. LaPaglia seems like quite an interesting guy and its a shame we couldn't meet him.

Scotch eggs!

          Next on the plan was to eat! We were famished after running around the town to see all of those places, like the university. Someone we asked suggested that we go to the grocery store to find the scotched eggs, so we did. Everyone bought a small case of about 3 eggs each and paid. We then sat down on a picnic bench near by and enjoyed our unique, new meal. It wasn't as bad as we expected. The coating was made of sausage, spices and bread crumbs ground up and the center was a boiled egg. Apparently, its somewhat indigenous to Australia and pretty common. It was brought over by the British, of course, so it's actually their cuisine. The meal was pretty good overall, we're glad that we didn't have to eat Vegemite the whole time we were here. 

          Now that we did everything we needed to in Adelaide, we have moved onto Sydney. We're flying on Virgin Blue Flight 423 back to Sydney at 2pm today! We should be landing in about 3 hours. I think we'll all by happy to be a little bit closer to getting back home, even though the trip has been just great.