Good food, better freebies...

Well, I just got home from my stay in Melbourne. As I'd mentioned earlier, my mum, my sister, my friend Rhiannon and myself were the ones to go. The Good Food and Wine show was pretty good; smaller than last year, though.

We left home early, way too early for there to even be a time appointed to it... and got to Melbourne just after nine. We dropped the car off in the carparking bay at the place where we were staying and caught the tram from StKilda to The Exhibition Center.

The show was packed. People were everywhere and I quickly lost myself in them. I lost Rhiannon and the others fairly quickly, it was very easy to do that, but we eventually met up while walking around. In the end, I brought some Lindt chocolate, after watching a demonstration and getting a free sample and I brought a drink bottle to support the Think Pink Breast Cancer fund thing...

Freebies wise... I had noodles, chicken and tomato and basil rice, yoghurt, chocolate (there was a lot of that floating around, even wine flavoured chocs), many drinks (V, the new Mixt drink, water, cranberry juice, mineral water, new juices) new dips and crackers and a few other nibbles.

We also got free showbags at the entrance because we had the tickets they'd sent out to us, free espresso cups (six of them, though we were only supposed to have one each). To get the cups, you had to fill out a entry form at the Mazda stand to win a trip to Italy. Each entry got a cup. They're really cute. They're little and black.

After the show, we went to Federation square to see the red rods that were recently put there. Didn't see what the fuss was about, really. We, meaning me and Rhiannon, went to Crown after that and we watched the blackjack tables for a while. It was really interesting. At the roulette table, we watched as one guy was handed three $1000 chips and a few stacks of $25 chips. Our eyes almost popped out of our heads.

I got bored pretty quickly when Rhiannon was leading me around Crown, but we had some fun watching the big guns play. I needed the escape of Crown Casino. It was the same problems as my first post. I guess i was feeling smothered. I don't know why i continue to feel this way but i keep getting irritated by my family. I love them, of course i do, but lately it just seems like they are out to annoy me. One of my pet hates is repetition. I hate when people repeat themselves, and mum seems to be doing that to me a lot. You don't really want to hear about that though...

When we got back to the motel, we went and got dinner at the NYPD (New York Pizza Department, I'm assuming) and the pizza's were, no joking, 18" and they were friggin huge! Rhiannon and I got one between us and we couldn't eat it. It was a massive pizza. Biggest I've seen.

Rhiannon and I went to a bar later on, she wanted to see if we could pick up any guys, but I wasn't having a bar of it. I have Greg, duh! Mum's snoring kept her awake some of the night which I found funny.

This morning we dropped Erin off at the Spencer St train station so she could travel to Mildura with Vonnie. She's been gone for over eight hours now. I miss my baby. We swapped her for my brother, Shannon. He's been home since ten this morning.

Before we went home, we played the pokies at Crown, Rhiannon won some money on Blackjack, and now I'm home.

I shouldn't have driven, though. On the way home, as it was getting dark, I found myself drifting. Not from the road, in my mind. As I was driving, I sort of receded into my own head and didn't concentrate on the road. I tried, I actually really tried to concentrate but my mind wouldn't do it, I worried myself. I got to thinking about the car in front of me. It's numberplate was TIM 787 and I found myself thinking about who Tim was and what he would be like. No matter what I did, shook my head to clear it, had a drink of water, turned on the music in the car, but I still couldn't shake myself out of it.

I almost pulled over to let mum drive just before we hit Warragul, but I kept going. We made it home which is the important thing.

I'm all written out now, so goodnight. I'm getting an early night, need to replenish sleep.