Very exciting train ride done we entered the Olympic park. This show was MUCH busier than the last one and Lots more commercial. This was run by the home and garden magazine and TV show so it was expected that there would be home things too. We did everything outside first before it got too hot as it was a rather lovely day again. There were lots of very interesting stalls with things like chicken cages, furniture made out of tyres, plant stalls just all the usual stuff really. The thing that caught Debra's eye was the dog bath on legs! Very impressive bit of kit.. We thought Tara would fit and this would save $50 a week getting here washed so that was purchased.. We came back for that later as it was a tad heavy! We continued to look at things picking up leaflets and entering LOTS of competitions and getting free samples we made our way into the inside bit which seemed to be all home things which was a little disappointing but nevertheless we had a look. During this time we had lunch. Lunch consisted of being given so many free samples of food we weren't really that hungry we had curries, chocolates, brownies, lots of cheeses, fruits, sweets, puddings you name it they probably sold it haha! All very nice and yummy we tried some of the things on offer like a $499 eye mask that is meant to get rid of headaches.. Essentially it plays music in your ears and massages your head which is great but it made my headache worse and I didn't enjoy it. Others did though falling asleep whilst trying it! So we didn't buy that as it didn't work! We had a good mooch around and came across a makeup beauty stand where I got insulted by the most heavily makeup'd and wrinkly woman in the world who said she thought I was 13? Charming, I thought he looked about 59 and properly used all this magic cream and still looked that way! But we kept that to ourselves.. Debra tried some of her magic cream which puffs your skin up to reduce wrinkles around your eyes. We had seen ads on the tv like the JML adverts at home and thought pfft this will never work! Magically it did and we were all surprised and found out it was made in England yaaaaay. Moving on there was a stall called 'free perfume' this could be fun I thought seeing all the bags with union jacks on them! There was a man behind the counter who called us over to smell his perfumes and went into pitch mode. He had done this 10,0000 times before and was very good at it. We tried 4 fragrances and a men's fragrance which would all be free and at the value of over $800!! Wow, bit I loved best was that he was saying its the number 1 selling perfume in the UK and in Europe.. 1 Pommie stood right in front of him never even heard of the brand or recognises the bottles but he carried on with his speech telling us how amazing the offer is. "We don't advertise on TV because you can't smell perfumes" blah blah. Best bit was at the end, "ladies this is a bargain, all we require is $50 for this first perfume which is Hal price for the show today." So it's not free then? Goodbye!! We left that one very promptly and could no longer smell any of the 4 that he put on our wrists haha! Good sales there, and with that and a few other bits we were ready for and ice cream! After the most expensive flake99' in the world we headed back into the show to pick up our purchases for the day and head back to the car. This was easier said than done. Once plants were picks up we had to get the dog bath. The box wasn't heavy as it was plastic just awkward as it was the same size as her! The man who sold it carried it to the gate where we carried on to the car with Debra balancing it on her head! A small jiggle and it was in the car success! We were all a little tired after wondering in the heat for the morning but we had one more stop. Costco! There are only 3 in Australia and it is an American shop. Not sure if we get it at home but I expect Mark to know if we do! It was a HUGE bulk buying superstore discount place thing. Very exciting we arrived parked the car in the underground car park with no signs, Americans eh? And waited for the lifts to find out you HAVE to take a trolly from the car parks and take it in the lift to use it! Stupid idea!!! Americans again... The lifts were big lifts but the trolleys were American sized like double normal trolleys with under storage like in homebase or wherever. They had everything catering sizes of apple pie, cameras, TV's, meat, Christmas decorations, wooden outdoors children's play frames, anything you name it from food clothes just stuff they had it and in BIG numbers! Which was great picked up a weeks supply of food a months supply if looroll and corona for more than half the price! Great until we wanted to pick up some rice for dinner.. I have never seen such big bags of rice! All catering bags the size of pallets! It was mental think ikea and then times it by 5 with food. Every isle had someone cooking a product going you samples so there was second lunch! We were pretty much the only Ozzies in the place it was mainly asian or indians and it was shoulder to shoulder getting around (a downside to big trollys) After we had a full trolly we left very tired.. So that was an experience in its self. Because we had bought so much meat we needed a chiller bag to put it all in as we had another hour+ drive home so went to woolies to pick one up. Easy you might think.. After an HOUR and 2 shops we got one and left.. Speedy drive home down the freeway and we found the boys.. They didn't run out to help with the shopping we came inside to find them both asleep in front of the TV watching rallying! Obviously a hard day for both. Curry was on the menu for tonight with a spice mix we bought from the show as it was lovely! It was a vindaloo spice mix but you can add the chilli separately from the flavour to choose the heat, half the packed went in and Myles thought he might cry. We don't like it too spicy but we are learning! We had a gorgeous curry and it was just right not too spicy but a good kick to it!
As you probably know it was a F1 weekend which meant no early night as it stated at 10:30 for qualifying. Myles watched this whilst I slept,( I think that was the better choice too!)
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The poll was Myles' idea so if he is losing then its his own fault!! Don't vote me down because he never writes on the blog! Cheeky sods...
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