Wot I dun on my lst wekend.
I had a pretty exciting weekend last week. Firstly there was my sister in-law's wedding, where I got a free dinner and there was no dancing involved at all. The guy she married also has an Xbox 360, so we can trade games, but unlike him (so far) I have kids and so game playing is a luxury I have little time for these days. I used to be able to lock myself in my study while my wife watching boring stuff on TV and I'd game my brains out. Now if I close my study door, my daughter knocks on it going, "Daddy, daddy." Cause I'm such a softy, I open the door and she comes in and pulls stuff off shelves and generally makes such a nuisance of herself that I can't concentrate on gaming. Then I have no choice but to leave my peaceful study and assist my long suffering wife with the two hellions. But essentially the wedding was good.
The other entertaining thing we did on the weekend was go to the Royal Melbourne Show, which for any foreigners is a big, yearly agricultural gathering on the outskirts of the city with lots of carnival type rides and show bags with sugary crap and other useless junk in them. Of course there are the animal pavilions, but most people come for the exorbitant parking and entry fees and the outrageous cost of all the food and showbags (which the sellers will try to convince you is good value for money). We had some of my wife's relations with us (mine wouldn't be caught dead there these days), which was great cause it spared me from going on kiddie rides with my daughter and from carrying her around all day. It was the first time we'd been to the show with kids, so it kind of made the experience more entertaining viewing it through a child's eyes. The most awful thing I had to endure there (apart from going through a big wad of cash) was having to sit through a musical Shrek show where actors (who should be out of work) dressed up as giant Shrek characters, pranced around a stage singing and generally doing awful voice impressions of the movie characters. How kids like that kind of thing I'll never know.
So I'm expecting this weekend to be dull in comparison.
The other entertaining thing we did on the weekend was go to the Royal Melbourne Show, which for any foreigners is a big, yearly agricultural gathering on the outskirts of the city with lots of carnival type rides and show bags with sugary crap and other useless junk in them. Of course there are the animal pavilions, but most people come for the exorbitant parking and entry fees and the outrageous cost of all the food and showbags (which the sellers will try to convince you is good value for money). We had some of my wife's relations with us (mine wouldn't be caught dead there these days), which was great cause it spared me from going on kiddie rides with my daughter and from carrying her around all day. It was the first time we'd been to the show with kids, so it kind of made the experience more entertaining viewing it through a child's eyes. The most awful thing I had to endure there (apart from going through a big wad of cash) was having to sit through a musical Shrek show where actors (who should be out of work) dressed up as giant Shrek characters, pranced around a stage singing and generally doing awful voice impressions of the movie characters. How kids like that kind of thing I'll never know.
So I'm expecting this weekend to be dull in comparison.
posted by Javatari at 4:28 AM
2 Comments:
lol, the fun never stops on Planet Merlo.
Try and keep it down this weekend, you wouldn't want to overdo it ;)
Steph, oh how I long for the day when you have kids. Then I will be the one laughing at you.
PS. stop trying to hack my blog. ;)
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