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Thursday morning we had sports prac. Afterward I met with my group to work on the presentation that we are giving next week. Then at 3pm I flew to Adelaide for the weekend to visit Damien and run a half marathon. We started out with not the best visit. He had to work late, I had to study for an accounting exam and take it Friday morning and he had to prepare for and do a job interview. By the time we had done all of that it was Friday lunch time so we had delicious Vietnamese rolls-as in Vietnamese on bogie buns, sounds weird, tastes delicious. Then we went rock climbing. The indoor facility there is nice. Not quite as elaborate as Melbourne but still fun and a good workout. After climbing we headed up to Clare Valley which is about 2 hours north of Adelaide. It is a lesser known wine region north of Barossa. Saturday was just a relaxing day of hiking, going to wineries and having a "picnic" lunch at one of the wineries. Sunday morning we were up early to run the Clare Valley half-marathon. We were under the impression that it was a 7am start but it was actually 8am. So we were there way to early. I did not feel well running. I don't think that I had fully recovered from my bike crash on Tuesday so I was in a lot of pain and was having trouble breathing because it hurt to move my ribs. I still ran a 1:54:04 so I wasn't too sad.

We went to a few more wineries before heading back to Adelaide. I have plenty of wine to fill up my wine rack but not nearly enough suitcase room so I had to leave more than half of it to be delivered at a later date.