EKKA

for you nsw readers, this isn't another random stupid thing that i decided to write, although i don't know what it stands for.

It is basically the equivalent of the royal easter show, shhowbags, rides, shows.

so the day started out fine...for me. for i was the only one who wasn't late muhahaha. sonya was next least late and since elaine and ben were gonna be another 20 or so minutes i decided to check out the intertate voting poll place...and guess what i voted! damn i voted for liberal :P its cos the guy had the same name as me hahahaha for house of reps and labour for senate so that cleared it out of the way

so then we came and met up with ben and elaine. went to ekka and despite the large crowd waiting for a bus, we managed to get the next one and got there in about 5 minutes :P

stupid thing happened..i touched my go card but i touched the wrong one and i touched the wrong one again and i touched the right one so i got charged 3 times -_- annoying...

anyway went and got tickets, i only spent about 60 or 70 dollars today :P about half or more was on food :P and when you count that to get in was 18 bucks that is pretty funny eh? :P

so first off we went to get helen's showbags cos she couldn't be there so we got her stuff for her :P we had to choose whether to get it in the beginning or end. at the beginning, we have to carry it all day -or rather ben has to- but at the end it might be sold out. since we didn't know what to do we decided to go at the beginning.

during the buying of the showbags, i came across some interesting stuff, like airbrushing - its soooo cool, its like artistic graffitti that doesn't wash off :P and some random laser light thing that was 150..i was tempted to buy it but realised i'd only use it in sydney :P

bought an awesome book and wanted to buy more but couldn't find which ones i wanted. angus and robertson had a whole bunch of books for 5 bucks omg omg i was regretting i bought the book i bought later cos i had to carry it all day and books are pretty stiff oh well its awesome book :D shall not reveal it here because then you may want to steal it from me :P

anyway that was basically all we did in the showbags place and then we went for lunch. i had a hamburger which took ages to get and elaine was feeling sick so she sat down somewhere far far away in the nether regions of the universe, so we didn't see her for 20 minutes whilst we had lunch :P

we went to see a preview of what was to come tonight and it was awesome, motorbikes, monster truck and utes, but i'll get into it later :P

so after thati got some ice cream and althought it wasn't worth 4 50, it was alright so yeah would have kicked myself if i didn't try it anyway. so we went to a nother section of the show, it was much more crowded but i suppose that was because the day was getting on, even the showbags place was full of people when we revisited it later

so we went to see the places and the only real highlight of the whole thing was the freebies and a good pie i had yes i suppose you remember the hamburger i had for lunch and the ice cream :P

so freebies - govt building a bag and a hat that broke...stupid hat, some pineapple that was sweet and not sour at all - surprising. i also got some more ice cream from an ice cream truck, it was really soft ice cream very flavoursome and covered in buts yuuum , that wasn't free that was 4 bucks

anyway we went to the animal place and saw a horse, yay and walked past some random shows. that was when we decided to go back to the showbags and get ben something, i got something as well just cos the lady was like, you want one too? and i was like yeah i need that inflatable hammer..which smelt funny by the way.

so after that we decided to go to the highest point and see if we could see royal brisbane hospital and the place we're gonna have the dental dinner...unfortunately we could see neither and merely saw the women's hospital, good enough :P

we went to see a sideshow show and that was really really good, the swallowed swords, juggled a live running chain saw, hoola hoops, dislocation, carried a batter with his hipples, put his arm in a fox trap, swallowed a balloon and lots of crazy stuff that made you cringe to watch...

so that was pretty good, we then proceeded to have dinner, bland salty food. eugh

annnnyway - i should have just had another 2 pies :P- we then went to get some seats and for the next 2 hours we watched some horses running around and elaine and i played chinese checkers which i lost but pretended not to by doing something shifty :P

anyway that was pretty boring and my legs felt stiff.

then we watched some horses and people for a but, some knights jousting, not as cool as i thought it'd be but oh well still alright

so then the cars were first, high speed drifting, and formations and close proximity and stuff, good fun to watch but it got a bit boring after a bit :P

the next one was a monster truck drifting and it crushing stuff, that was pretty cool especially when the monster truck flew into the air :P the cars it was crushing...got crushed, it was funny cos they were all white and we all know white cars are the slowest :P

this was proceeded by the best show of the day, by this stage i was feeling tired again cos i walked all day and was sustaining myself with ghost drops, and then chewing gum. so the last show was really really good, gosh motorbikes are cool :P it was freestyle jumping and they did really cool stuff like backflips, no hand landings gosh really awesome :D

then came the fireworks and it went nuts at the end, that was awesome

we caught almost the first train out of there when we were ready and met up with hien, yun and some guy that i don't know the name of :P they went to buy showbags we went to the toilet :P

ummmm caught a bus afterwards...and realised i didn't bring keys :( i didn't realise cos the day was so jam packed all day...so i was working out what to do..

lucky for me aunty susan was still up, waaay past when she normally slept which was good news for me :P

yeah so that was my day...please add anything you thought was important that i left out sonya, ben, elaine and helen :P