An outing for work..

My work organised for me to go talk to four classrooms of five year olds about how to look after their teeth.

It was great.

They sent me this awesome card to day thank you.

The Royal Show

The Perth Royal Show is a much anticipated annual event in Perth. Attracting mostly those with children, and farmer type who have live stock to show off or are the most awesome at chopping wood and enter the competition to be crowned the best. 

The show goes for a solid ten days which I thought seemed a long time, but its school holidays so I guess there is always people to go each day. I had been hearing from patients all week about how they had been to the show with their kids.

A Brief History

The families who pioneered the state of WA also founded the Royal Agricultural Society. In 1831 they decided to hold an annual Fair and Cattle Show. The first official show was held on November 7th, 1831. It took until 1890 for the Queen to grant permission for the society to assume the title of the Royal Agricultural Society, at which time the show became the Perth Royal Show. 

Needless to say there is a lot of history in this annual Perth event.

I didn't think I'd get along to the show this year but a new part-time hygienist, Shara, started at work on Saturday. We work just the morning and Shara was heading to the show after with her housemate and his 4 year old son. She invited me along and I thought I may as well check out what all the hype was!

We wandered around a lot checking out what was going on. The people watching was great with so many 'carnis' and some of Perth's midriff exposing's finest out in the sunshine.

Chase was a little bit grumpy as he was a bit indecisive about what he wanted to do. But we went on the bumper cars with Shara and I, vs. Chase and Brad - surprisingly fun.  Chase played the typical carnival clown game and won an awesome Super Mario soft toy (oscar would have loved) and a toy truck (Chased loved). 

Me, Brad, Chase and Shara on the Gee Whizz

The Gee Whizz is a spinning ride which was great. We snuck Chase in with support from his father as he was too young and too short to ride. Luckily the women behind the counter didn't ask for ID. With four of us in the little carriage   he was safely snug between us (see image above). 

Chase loved it and after the ride he was in a much better mood and wanted to try everything else! We took a breather watching the wood chopping comp and a kiwi repping a black silver ferned t-shirt placed. Shara said "second is as good as last" haha, but I was happy.

Unfortunately the looming dark clouds decided to open up on the show and we had to run to shelter under on of the carnival games, so we decided to call it a day. We hadn't really made it around to the more traditional Royal Show area with more livestock (we had seen some carves and brown cows) and arts and crafts stalls but I felt satisfied with a good taste of a day at the show.

Oxfam Training Walk

Abby and I embarked on my first time on the actual trial on Monday just been.

This was a solid 6 hours walking and it turned out to be a fun day. Even though rain was scheduled we had pretty pristine weather. I even got a small patch on sun kissed skin on the back of my neck where my sunscreening was not up to standard!! (lesson learnt!!)

Abby and I walked with a friend of Abby's called Zoe, who is also taking part in the trailwalker (with another team).

The Oxfam Trailwalk in Perth is predominantly along the Bibbulmun track which runs from Kalamunda, east of Perth to Albany and is almost 1,000 kilometres long.

We walked from the start of the trailwalker to check point two which was a total of 33km. Taking a lovely lunch break at 30km to take in the views of the Mundaring Dam. This areas was a hustle and bustle of tourists and in our active wears and after walking for over five hours I certainly felt I was looking a little worst for wear compared to these well dressed tourist who had just a ten minute wander down from their cars.

Was encouraging to not feel completely zonked by the end of the first stretch and the prospect of doing that x3 in two weeks time not too daunting!!!