It's schnitzel night‏

Our favourite buffet, Sunset Buffet at the Skycity Casino, decided to designate Tuesday nights as Schitzel night. The price was 1/2 their normal rate so L and I decided that we'd go on at date to try out the new offering.

Upon arriving the the casino the sunset was going down and we captured this video. This is about as good as it gets in Darwin as we are going into their winter and the sun sets over the ocean.



A loveely sunset



At this buffet you pay before you eat. At the cashier they asked us what schnitzel we wanted; pork, chicken or beef. I chose beef, L selected chicken. They explained that they delivered the schnitzel portion of the meal to the table and you can buffet the rest. That seemed unusual but fine.

We were shown to our table and as soon as we sat down a waitress was there with our schnitzel on plates to give to us. I was a little unprepared for the main part of meal so so but we accepted them.

Then I thought "but I wanted a salad first".

So we decided we'd do things the way we always do and have a salad and then commence with the main part of our meal. So we would just have to settle for cold schnitzel.

Overall I would say things weren't up to the usual quality but the price was certainly right. The next day I felt like I was poisoned, which really isn't hard to do to me.

So will we go back ?

Maybe in another 4 weeks.

It's the start of the Dry

Here in Darwin we have 2 seasons wet and dry. This years wet was unusually dry which for us, as new to Australia, was great. We didn't have to deal with to much mould growing on things.

But the dry has officially started because lots of events are ahappening. The one that makes it really official is the Mindil beach market. This happens every Thursday and Sunday night and is a place to buy food and trinkets. The big draw of course is the sunset. The big downer is the mosquitoes and I usually get poisoned from the food.

But the dry means that it probably won't rain for another 5 months. Another thing that comes with the dry is cooler nights. This is the first time we didn't need any air con and we actually needed a blanket on the bed. We have the windows wide open. This has an unfortunate side affect of letting all the smoke from the brush burning into the house. That is the other thing that comes with the dry, the brush burning. They do this for 2 reasons; to reduce the chance of a big fire that would threaten cities and to rejuvenate the foliage for the next upcoming wet season.

Last night we saw the barking owl, but this time it wasn't barking. It was sitting on the pole and would fly around catching big bugs. It was special to be able to see this bird at all, but to see him in action was amazing. Since our first sighting we're always on the lookout for it every time we take out the garbage.

By the way the background picture of the blog is taken at Mindil beach.