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Sunday, March 27, 2005
fireworks tonight - 04:49 PM
(filed under 'general')
as part of the sunflower festival which has had various events over the past two weeks but had its main happenings this weekend, there's stuff going on at fairbairn dam, such as fireworks tonight. we're not sure what time they're on, because the events calendar just says 'evening'. i'm thinking maybe we'll leave here at about 6pm. it's not a long drive, only about fifteen to twenty minutes.
it also says there were stalls & live music 'all day'. i'm guessing the stalls will be gone by the time we get there & if the guide's accuracy is anything to go by so far, then the stalls might have proven to be just one stall anyway. heh.
the fireworks could be nice. it'll be good to have a little trip out, regardless. i'm pretty sure smiley has seen fireworks before, but it might have been a while ago, so it'll be interesting to see how he likes them.
shroom said something pretty funny to me under his breath yesterday while we were watching the parade & attending the race meet for the children's rides, which turned out to be far smaller than we'd expected: "this is way better than piss weak world!" rotfl!! 
despite our apparent scorn, we really do like emerald. it's nice here .. small parades & all. 
one more pic for today - 02:36 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
i have one more pic for you. it's the view from our lounge room window.
animal pictures - 02:30 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
since i'm on a roll with updating the pictures on my site, i've added two more sets of pics of some of the animals which have come into our lives over the past number of months.
there were the laundry cats from back in january in childers & now there are the horses living across the road.
my cute little dag - 02:06 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
here are some really up to date pics of smiley being a cute little dag.
that's all the smiley pics i have now. he's all up to date. tj, knock yourself out!
last melbourne shots - 01:49 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
the last of the melbourne pictures are up.
there are now three more pics of smiley which i'm about to put up which were taken within the last week or so.
second week in melbourne - 01:22 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
more pics of marysville & our second week in melbourne.
cute smiley pics - 01:01 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
another two pics. these are from a cafe when we went on a day trip to marysville in victoria.
pics from first week in melbourne - 12:41 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
okay. the first lot are up. here are some pics from our first week in melbourne, back in february.
smiley pics coming - 12:00 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')
due to popular demand (hi, tj. i'm talking to you! 
) i'm working on some long overdue pics of smiley to finally update my site. i'll be putting up quite a few, so i may link to each set one at a time from the front page here.
keep checking back for more, but i dare say i'll let you know once i'm up to date & have uploaded the last of them.
jumping castle - 11:29 AM
(filed under 'baby')
yesterday morning, before the rodeo, the sunflower parade was on through the streets of town, ending at the race track where they were to have a horse race. we didn't stay for the racing, but turned up early to take smiley on the "children's rides" which were advertised in the little booklet with the calendar of events.
the "children's rides" plural turned out to be more of a "children's ride" singular, since there was only a jumping castle. well, there were two jumping castles in the same set up, so i suppose they were technically correct.
anyway, i wanted to take smiley on the jumping castle before the parade got there & thus all the other kids arrived, making it too rough for him to go on. i asked the man attending them if i could go on with smiley & he agreed. he was going to charge us two $3 tickets but changed his mond & only charged us one. i was glad since he's still too little to go by himself so we didn't really have a choice but to go on together.
it was great fun! i do admit that i had alterior motives when i wanted to take him on the jumping castle. i hadn't been on a jumping castle since i was a kid myself.
it had a huge, quite steep slide in the middle & you had to climb up a rope netting thing up the back of it to get to the top. i went down with smiley on my lap the first couple of times, but then once i saw it was safe enough & smiley knew what was going on, i sent him down first & then followed.
he had almost as much fun as i did. it'll be a pity that when he's old enough, i won't have the excuse to go on. *chuckle*
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