bonjour brightside

and this can only mean three things:

1. celebrating our amazing God!
2. HOLIDAYS (though technically i only get friday and monday off)
3. chocolate chocolate chocolate (easter bunnies and eggs of course)! wooo!

anyway i meant to post this a couple of days ago but as usual, didn’t have the time to upload photos but since i have half a day off tomorrow, i am (relatively) less busy so here we go

last saturday we went to a food, music and wine festival at m0rdiall0c, by the foreshore. the weather was amazing (not too hot or too cold, for once) and it was a only 15-minute drive away so that was even more awesome

and here we are looking set to rock and roll (only jem wanted to get drunk on the wines.)

besides live music and wines (which i still have yet to learn how to appreciate), there were lots of rides- this one was called the Scorpion and it went round and round and spun like crazy. i imagine it would not be wise to go on it after dinner, haha

and this one was called ‘Hangover’. THIS was the horrendous ride i sat on!!! we got turned upside down and i felt like my insides were churning

honestly i was going to chicken out, i had no idea what in the world i was thinking when i said ‘yes let’s go on it!’

when the ride started carol and i practically screamed our heads off! that’s us at the top, topsy turvy- not the nicest position i would say. anyway it was a frightening but sort of exciting experience for me, given that i have this massive phobia of heights (but then again i am the kind of person who occasionally likes to scare myself). i thought i was going to have a heart attack there and then! no more scary rides for me (at least not in a long time coming)

and then we remembered that we should try the pancakes but the queue was so long and i got lazy, so i settled for some passionfruit yoghurt ice cream instead, which was goooood . although i did want to try the fig, honey and pistachio flavoured one, but it was melted and the lady said she couldn’t sell it

and one last photo to end the night- we had a fantastic time and i’m hoping we get to do this again soon!

and HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! wooo i finally get to sleep in

i haven’t attended a concert for ages! and so i was rather stoked when becky said we should go for this:

i’d been to something similar two years ago, and i remembered how incredible an experience it was, so i was really looking forward to it!

here’s becky and i looking quite excited, before the concert

and here are some shots i managed to (surreptitiously) capture

sorry they’re not very good pictures, you probably can’t see much since i didn’t opt for flash (i liked the blue and purple lighting and wanted to capture it). anyway the concert was awesome, as expected, and at some point near the end of the concert i managed to sneak into the mosh pit and indulge in my happy jumping and hand-raising thingy, which made me feel like an exuberant 18-year-old all over again. there was also a really funny and sincere message about encountering God, and i think i must have laughed at nearly every sentence the pastor said. then after the concert we met H & S and jess for supper and had some more great laughs, because H & S are just sooooo crazily wild and hilarious- it’s almost like watching live stand-up comedy.