Come one, come all! It's SHOWTIME!!

I just got off a soup diet last Friday, and I must say, I am really glad that I toughed it out. Starting the previous Friday, all I was supposed to have was a vegetable soup that tasted somewhat like tomato soup, and one ham-cheese-tomato sandwich a day, supplemented by exercise.

It was really hard. The day after I started the diet, I come home from work in the afternoon to find my brother snacking on fat foods. No problem, I'll just not touch them, I think. And then I go to open the pantry to look for a snack (force of habit, that's all it is. What? Why the raised eyebrow? I'm serious!), and find that my mum, in addition to making me the soup, and knowing that I was on the diet, went and bought FOUR boxes of savoury biscuits (you know, the "X in a biscuit" things), simply because they were on special. It was hard to resist.
Sunday, I end up having to go to a birthday BBQ for my grandma. Now just WHY a vegetarian has to have a barbecue, which consists mainly of char-grilled meat and few actual vegetables escapes me, but I ended up breaking the rules many times :(

Anyways, fast forward to Friday, and I've lost at least two kilos. I'm quite happy with this, considering that I broke the dietary rules several times during the week. I'll attempt it again in a week or two.

Being the beginning of September, the Royal Adelaide Show was on again. Having not gone for several years, this year I wanted to go. I ended up arranging to go with my good friend Jon and his family.






It was a bit of a saga trying to get there. I get off work on the Saturday, come home, get changed and ready, and then call his place to find out that he'd already set off. I accidental call again before I realied I had to call his mobile ^_^;;

Finding parking was an absolute bitch. Cars were parked almost everywhere, and what parking I did find cost an arm and a leg.
I enter through the X Zone area, looking for where to meet Jon and end up wandering around for about fifteen minutes before finding them near the Ten building.
We had some good times there - mainly wandering about, buying showbags and food.

A visit to the Barnyard Animals area near the Royal Banquet Hall where I take some of my exams had some interesting things. For you female readers out there (yes, I know there is at least one of you), a treat:

A sleeping wombat. Isn't he adorable?





And now for something (not so) completely different:




Yes, that's right. A yellow chicken and a blue chicken! There was also a pink one but it was in a photoshoot with a little kid, and I couldn't get a good photo of it.

Arguably one of the centerpieces of the Show was the Ferris Wheel, set just behind the main entrance.




It was a pity that I wasn't taking a girl along - I'm a hopeless romantic, and think that one thing that I'd HAVE to do if I was at the show with a girl was to take her on the Ferris Wheel.

Jon while we were shopping for showbags. Mmm ... Bertie Beetle chocolate bars ...





Watch me spring into action. 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... HOOO!!







And finally, for no reason whatsoever, me threatening the cameraman with a plastic pitchfork.





Keep your eyes glued to the blog when I make that monumental 50th post!