20190712 San Giorgio La Molara Community Centre

I finished work at 4.45 and strolled across to the Elephant where our booth was booked. I forgot my glasses and had to go back to the office. I read some of my 'Power of Now' book whilst I was waiting for Stephen. He came around 5.15.

Today is an unusual sort of day because we are doing something a little outside of the box. We are going to stretch ourselves tonight. We are going far afield from Rundle Street and going to Payneham for dinner at Richard's suggestion.

Stephen rang Con to see if he was coming to the Elephant and he said he would come in for one drink. He came around 5.45 and bought a jug of beer. Stephen said he would drive to the venue.

Chad was a no show tonight - he was babysitting his nephew and niece.

We found the venue easily enough. There was some construction work happening outside and we weren't sure of the entry but Con found it for us.

The hall is quite large and you can tell that it is used for weddings and functions. There is a large dancefloor with circular tables around the periphery. The bookings tonight had white tablecloths.

We found Richard and Albert sitting at the table for 5. There was a big screen behind the table which was playing football. It was unusual for Richard to have his back to the t.v.

The menu was simple - pasta and pizza with schnitzel and fish and chips. We all decided that we needed to order the pizza. (Richard ordered an extra bowl of chips to share for the table - the empty bowl picture above is a testament to how good they were!).

Albert ordered a large pizza for himself - he found out later that he had to order a pizza box take-away it was so big! Richard ordered a small special and Stephen and Con ordered a large special to share - plenty big enough for the two of them. In fact, Stephen struggled with the last piece and just ate some of the topping. I had a small vegetarian which unusually had potato on there. It may not sound nice, but the potato was thinly sliced like a wafer and cooked to perfection.

We all loved our pizzas! 8 out of 10 all round. I loved my pizza - everything was perfect. The only thing that could have gotten it a 10 is if the toppings were spread out more across the whole of the pizza. They seemed to congregate to the centre. It had spinach, mushrooms, olives (which Stephen and Richard ate) and of course potato.

All the pizzas had a thick pizza base - which was cooked perfectly. Don't let the pictures of the pizzas fool you - the large pizzas were ENORMOUS and the small pizzas were more than plenty for 1 person. I left 3 slices because I couldn't eat it all - Stephen had 1 slice and I donated the other 2 to Albert to take home.

Stephen ordered a beer and then 2 glasses of red wine. He was amazed at how cheap the wines were - $5 a glass! Now that's more like it...

Richard's cousin, Louie, came and sat with us for a while. He had ordered a take-away pizza. We decided to have coffee there and Stephen ordered the round. Cappuccinos all round except for Albert who had hot chocolate. The main coffee machine was broken and so the coffees were made on the smaller machine. It tasted like espresso coffee - not as nice as the barista style.

It was a lovely evening. Top marks all round - Richard certainly choose well for this one. AND it was great to see Albert.

We gave Con a lift home and Richard picked up and dropped off Albert.