Royal Adelaide Show

On Saturday we decided to go to the last day of the Adelaide Show. I think I said before it's the South Australian version of Turra Show, only bigger, better and, rather regrettably, no boating pond. Anyway, we managed to hit it on the best day as the sun was shining (enough for me to get sunburnt and have rather nice strap marks). The Adelaide Show is a fair, animal show, highland games and trade fair rolled into one. We spent about 2 minutes looking at animals, before realising that we didn't really care about them and they smelled bad. So we went to watch the wood chopping instead. Wood chopping is far more entertaining that you would imagine, which could explain how we managed to spend an hour and a half watching it. We were waiting to get to the main event, which was the tree climb. I've added a video of it, as it was pretty cool.

Once we were chopped out we headed up to the rides and sideshow alley. Adam managed to get me to go onto the big dipper, however, he didn't have any luck getting me onto anything else. They all looked like they might make me sick. Adam managed to win me a rather hideous orange dinosaur by hitting the bell on the test of strength. I think he felt quite manly after that.

Adam proving his machoness

After spending a lot of time just wondering around and looking at food stalls and other bits and bobs we finally braved the showbag pavilion. Showbags are somewhat of a show tradition. There are hundreds of bags, which, apparently, cost a lot less than the stuff inside them. The idea is to get you to try products. Although a lot of the bags are just full of cheap toys for kids. We really only bought chocolate show bags. So we now have a cupboard full of chocolate. I'm still now sure how all that made up 6 hours of our day. I'm not really sure how we filled in that much time. But we had fun and got the first burn of the summer!

The contents of our showbags