Take me to the Show

So after a wonderful weekend in Perth we are finally settled back at the farm. We just finished a yummy Sherwood Pie (Vegetarian Sheperd's Pie, lentils instead of beef...very good)

Ok, so our first week-end back in the city....

We were told on thursday night that we could have a lift to the city and Catherine would pay for us to go to the perth Royal Show. Good deal we thought, so we did a short days work on friday labelling and headed off to the city. We were dropped off at Joondalup, the place we originally met Catherine and got the train to the city.
We wanted to get a mobile broadband deal so we could use skype etc.. from the farm, but the only providor that works in our area is one called Telstra. Now Telstra charge you $60 a month for 750mb, you can pay a similar amount with say 3 Network or Vodaphone and get around 10gb. Crazy people...

So when we arrived in Perth we met with Juli and went to find a Hostel to stay the night. We decided to stay at a hostel for the first night and asked if we could stay with Juli for the second. So the Hostel night was a first for Holly but it wasn't a bad hostel. Very tame and relatively clean. Nothing like the working hostels of Northern Queensland. Shudders....

Saturday morning was spent eating a Picnic Brunch by the Swan River in Perth met up with Juli and relaxed in a park for a few hours. We spent some time in the Bell tower after our Brunch. The Bell Tower contains 12 of the oldest bells in Australia and rung constantly during the day. We played cards and ate Olive's in the shadow of Perths Skyscrapers. We headed to the Perth Royal show around 3 and joined the queue. To entertain the waiting customers the show hired a guy to play the Didgeridoo and Bongos. He was an Asian with Long Dreads and only stopped smiling when someone walked past and threw him a compliment, he laughed and smiled even broader.

The show was as Holly says a mixture between Agribition and Exhibition from back home. For me it's like the royal Welsh but very Australian. We had a great time looking around the stalls for the agricultural part of the show, then hit the animals section where Holly had a connection with a Wombat. There were heaps of Animals there, baby ducks chickens, a new born calf, Crayfish and a whole section dedicated to dogs. We saw tonnes of different breeds of dogs and even some of those poodles that have the bad haircuts. They're really ugly!! But the stealers of the show were the glorious Golden Retreivers.

After leaving the Animal section we headed towards the pavillion to see where our boss had her stand during the week. On our way David noticed a friend walking by, this sounds relatively ordinary but he comes from my home town which is Tiny (There are less than 2,000 in my home town). And this was the second time I have bumped into him in Australia. THe show ended in a fireworks display with neon glowing horses which we watched huddled under a towel to keep us from freezing. We then joined the crowd to catch our train back to the house, we met some lovely people on the train for me putting a perfect end to an awesome day.

And so this morning we took a trip to Scarborough beach and spent some time relaxing with Flat stanley. Yeah...he was there. We only spent a little time here because we needed to get back to Joondalup to catch our lift back to the farm.

Bed time now though guys, thanks for reading :)

David & Holly