Goodbye, Good Friends

This trip has been filled with good people. Perhaps that is the best part of traveling — meeting people who may be thousands of miles from your geographic world, but very close to you in spirit. 

Enjoying a final refreshment together in the Adelaide Hills

With sadness, we bid adieu to Pam, our Jurlique host, and Jude and Libby, our fellow winners. 

On our last night of Jurlique contest sponsored fun(last Thursday night), Jude and Libby kindly invited us to watch some “footy” on the telly in a Pub and explained the ins and outs of Australian Rules Football to us. I’ll try and explain it to you.  Picture about 30 very fit men under 30 running around a soccer-sized field wearing Where’s Waldo striped clothing while trying to either bump (like a volleyball bump) or kick (like an American football kick) an oversized American football to each other and through a goal post. 

No helmets, no special padding, and a lot of wrestling and grabbing and “marking” and “oh my god, it’s up in the air, who can jump and catch it first” type of play. It really was fun to watch, and not too confusing — unlike cricket, which is deadly boring and lasts literally for days. 

Libby described rugby as trying to get a bunch of bananas through the end of a goal post, and I might pick up on her metaphor to say that rugby players do kind of have gorilla- like bodies. I don’t see that much difference between it and the AFL (Australian Football League), but my eyes haven’t developed a sense for Australian “footy” as they say. 

Anyway, we very much hope that Libby and Jude will make a trip to Montana so that we can try to explain America’s National Football League rules to them and similarly confuse them with the rules of our favorite sport. Cheers!

At Glenelg Beach for a final Jurlique spa treatment