Hardcore Bikers with the Band

It's been a fun weekend! We stayed in Adelaide for once instead of traveling around the country so that was a bit different. We went to some of Tyler's local hangouts including the Pancake House for dinner on Saturday and the Belgian Beer Cafe (BBC) for drinks on Friday night. Then Saturday night, we joined Claudio and Sandra and headed down to Glen Elg, the city on the coast that I've been to a few times now. Claudio's friends had a 2 person duet/band deal that was performing. It was just this couple that's been performing together for years and years - and they perform 5-7 nights a week! It's their full-time job basically - besides doing booking for other bands. They were really good. The guy played guitar and the girl sang. She had a great voice. They did mostly classic type covers that everyone knew and could dance to so that was fun. And when they had a break - we all went across the street to the coffee shop and stuff. They were super nice! It was tons of fun hanging out with the "band".
Then this morning, Tyler and I suited up our bikes (well I used his coworker's Doug's fancy road bike) and met up with Claudio and Sandra and Rudy for a hard-core bike ride up Mount Lofty - the highest point in the nearby suburb of Adelaide Hills. I had been pretty nervous before. I don't even know if I've ever been on a ROAD bike with those super skinny tires and we were going with people who do road races! How was I ever going to keep up? It ended up not being too bad. We biked the 5ish kms over to the path and then took a long windy path up the mountain. It was steep in parts but we weren't going too fast - in fact Tyler was definitely the quickest. It was a good workout for sure and the scenery was beautiful. We were on a bike path too that was separate from the road so we didn't have to worry about cars to that was really nice. When we got over the top, we stopped at Norton Summit for a snack/dinner and a chance to warm up our hands. We had already started going down a bit and the cool air blowing right at my hands was freezing! Before long it was starting to get dark so we hurried on down. Down was way harder than up for me. This time we were on the real mountain windy road with cars and tight turns. I was constantly breaking! Luckily Tyler stayed back and hung out with me to make sure that I made it down ok. It was a little freaky going too fast and the brakes on Doug's handlebars were maybe a bit further than normal reach for me so my fingers were getting stiff by the end. It was an awesome day though and the views both with the vineyards on the way up and the sunsetting on the way down were incredible! Unfortunately we didn't see any koalas in the trees as the signs along the road warned us of. We also didn't encounter any roos - which other signs warned of us as well. Crazy! Too bad I didn't have my camera....