EKKA - a must go experience... or is it?

Feeling like a fantastic wait in a long slow moving queue?

Want to to get shoved by complete strangers who don't even say sorry?

Sick of not getting your ankles knocked by prams?

Love eating expensive crap fast food?

Do you want to spend a heap of cash and have nothing to show for it at the end of your day?

If you answered yes to any of these... then perhaps its time to visit the EKKA!!!

Brad and I went yesterday to Brisbane's yearly "show". I saw rides there that scared the bejeebers out of me, like the Slingshot that was only $30, Im not sure if that was per person or double. All I know is that I don't enough trust in strangers to hoist me into the air like that and to pay for it as well... no thanks!!!

We went on the chair lift and the enclosed Ferris Wheel (not in the picture). Brad said, "We don't go on the fastest rides but the highest rides!" Just looking at the fast ones was making feel queezie!!!

By lunch times the crowds were huge and we could barely walk in the alleys. The showbag pavillion was not just packed out but filled wall to wall with people. Brad and I went to the closest one and bought Reuben a bag and that was a enough for me. It has got to illegal to have that many people in a building! I kept thinking if there was a problem, we would all be goners and crushed to death!

We went and saw the show dog pavillion. There were little mini daschunds, greyhounds and golden retrievers being shown. There were a couple of other breeds there that I had never heard of before. We went to the cat pavillion also. We saw a little sphix kitten. At first I thought yuk but then the owner had one out and I got to pet it. It was so soft and has a very thin layer of hair. It was such a little darling. It looks bat like almost!

By 2.30 we had had enough and decided to go home... but then there was the 15-20 minute walk back to the car. It was good to go as I haven't been since we moved here in 1993 (14 years) but I was glad to go home too. I probably don't need to go for another 14 years now!

All in all, it was a fun day out with my man, Brad. It was our first Ekka together and it certainly won't be our last... just give me 12 months to get over it! LOL