Ekka!

Date: Wednesday, Aug 12
We were given an Ekka day holiday, so the whole troop of us (Unilodgers, KG girls & cousin) headed down to Ekka to check it out!

Met Jean at King George Sq at 9am or so, and she's early! *Makes me feel guilty* Then we waited for the Unilodgers to come over and they were late :(


Sis, Geri, Jean - waiting for the rest to come

Finally, they arrived and we boarded the bus!


Jean & I

It didn't take long for us to get there. We passed our tickets to the ushers and we were well on our way in. First stop: to the fair to get our showbags! Prior to that, we did some research online to suss out the best showbags. In the end, Jean and I both got the CLEO showbag, whereas Kelda got the Marie Claire showbag and bought her Insectosarus plushie :)


Sis & I





The others took quite a while in the fair, I got really bored walking around the place so we headed out.


Still early in the day, the human traffic was still pretty alright.







We went into this area where there was a dog show going in.




Owners and pets sit inside the fenced up area. It's so weird to see a human behind those fences. Wonder if the dogs were sedated, they were lazing around and looked sleepy instead of being all active a.





There's something about this place that makes colours really pop in pictures.






The guys were playing games at the stations and won several plushies! :) Some of them were really sweet and gave the prizes to the girls.

We walked past this bungee-jumping on the trampoline thingy and I decided that I MUST get on it. =D A lot of kids were in the queue too, I blended in with them! Soon it was my turn, I got strapped up and then I was bouncing up and down, doing back-tucks and all. Wanted to try doing a layout but failed =P. It was really tiring, and I had to be 'rescued' a couple of times because after a while, my feet can't touch the trampoline and I was stranded in mid-air. Hhaha!






After that, time to eat!


Jean, with fries and corndog


Me with my langos! =D


Kelda with her corn dog. The gang in the background.


*nomnomnom!*


Bread mascots with Joson. After snapping this picture, they made a Joson sandwich by squashing him together hahaha!

We went to check out the animals!





















More pictures outside:




Love this picture.


Sister <3






Steve with Longan, Geri's plushie











We were thinking if we want to stay on for the fireworks, but it was only early afternoon and the fireworks only starts at night, around 8ish I think. So we decided to give the fireworks a miss and head back to the city. Thank goodness we did that! It started to drizzle after we left and I heard that it hailed as well. :)

Pictures on the bus!














Rainbow, the second one that we've seen so far in Brisbane, butt it's the first time for us to witness a double rainbow :)

Alrighty, that's all for today! ;)