The · Other · Corn · Field

Yesterday we went to the Easter Show. It was exciting - we saw lots and lots and LOTS of animals. We saw so many animals, we lost count of how many we saw! Crocodile sausages were on sale, so we tried some. It could have been the sweet chilli and lemon myrtle sauce that the guys put on it before handing it to us, but boy, was it HOT!! The corn on a stick with butter, salt and pepper was muuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better! We argued over who would eat more of it. Mwahaha...

For the 2nd day of the show being open, I expected more people to be there. It was crowded, true, but it wasn't a crowdedly crowded crowd. There were lots of people watching the dog judging competitions and the woodchopping competitions and the equestrian competitions. There were people who only go for the rides - we didn't go for this purpose. The rides seemed exhuberantly expensive - instead of paying a dollar or two per person per ride, the operators were charging by the coupon, and most rides require at least six coupons per person per ride. I figured if there was a family of 5 children that wanted to go on a ride once, that'd be really expensive - at over a dollar per coupon, you do the math, especially if both parents and all the rellies join in...

Add to that the showbags thing. Some showbags were priced at $25 and there aint all that much that go in them - a chocolate here, a pen there... and lots of candy that's not worth much more than $5... so I wonder, occasionally, where they get the valuations done that say "save $140" or some such thing. Anyway, we got one showbag that was under $25, so it wasnt so bad, and it had a lot more stuff in it than the $25 ones get. There were so many people who had to have spent $200+ on showbags alone yesterday - there were folks who were carrying so many showbags it looked like part of their body had ballooned up a la the lil blueberry brat in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"!!

All in all, it was a good day, and the most we spent was on the entry fee and the train ticket (combined ticketing). We did well.

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I'd rather watch a subtitled movie right now. But the assignments must be handed in or the assessors will not like me. That means I have to actually sit down and do some typing or virusing or something.

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