Out to Dinner - August

We went to the new Montezuma's at Browns Plains. This time we made a booking for 6.30 Saturday. When we got there, they didn't have our booking. They wondered if it was booked under Marshall instead. uh, no. Read. or anything that sounds like Read. Oh yes, for 9 people at 5pm? uh. no. For 2 people. at 6.30pm, which is now. So they squeezed us in anyway. Perhaps we would have been more fortunate if they couldn't fit us in :-)







The menu's here are large. they take up half the table. And the staff give you lots of time to read it. Lots and lots of time. We eventually placed our order, and also ordered a bottle of water. It said on the menu that drinks had to be ordered at the bar, so Janet went over to order some soft drinks. She was sent back and told they'd send a waitress over. Eventually we got our soft drinks, and eventually we got our water. Both of which we finished before our food arrived. (we were expecting a wait - it warns of this on the menu, something about freshy preparing ach meal? like this is unusual?)



While we were waiting, a couple behind us left after only reading the menu, and another table of 5 left because they had been waiting for their food for so long.....



Eventually our food arrived. Yay. Actually, its not our food. Its chicken and we didn't order chicken, its someone elses food. And then, our food arrived.....YAY

hmmmmmm maybe not yay. that looks like meat. I think this is meat. yes, its meat.

My vegetarian meal turned out to contain meat. I had to go searching for a waitress to bring over to check it out. She took it away, so I was waiting again.....

Meanwhile Janet at her Albondigas - mexican meatballs with sauce and cheese on a bed of rice. This was very hot (steam was coming out of the meatballs for the whole meal) and a bit bland.

Eventually my actual meal arrived Vera Cruz - Cheese Enchillada, bean burrito, rice & beans. It was ok. all a bit bland and boring really, and the cheese enchilada was way too cheesy, and the bean burrito was way too soggy.

When we went to pay, they told us that they would only charge us half price for one of the main meals because of the long wait. When we told her what had actually happened, she gave us a card for a free main meal on our next visit. I don't think we will be rushing to use that one.

Sea World Food

There is a sign when you go into Sea World that says you are not permitted to bring in any food (although they did not check our bags....)





For Lunch, I had the only vegetarian item I could find - a cheese & salad roll. It was premade, so I had to have it as it came. It had Cheese, Tomato, Lettuce, Carrot & Cucumber (which I removed). Quite tasty, but too cheesy for my liking.

Janet had a pie

And we chared this Churro before we watched the Sea Lion show. They are very sneaky with food carts at the front of every show as people wait for it to start.

Sea World

We have bought a special Queensland pass which lets us into Seaworld, Movie World and Wet & Wild as many times as we like until June next year. So that our weekends sorted :-) We went to Sea World on the Ekka holiday. We saw all the shows and all the animals - next time I want to go on some of the rollercoasterish rides.

Shark Bay is the coolest place - I could stay and watch the fish swim by all day

We missed the penguin feeding, and when we went by, there were only 3 penguins visible in the enclosure. Will have to check it out again next time

The dolphin show was great !

This is the only glimpse we got of the polar bears. This one woke up from its sleep in the garden bed and went inside, never to return. I think it needed to jump into the pool for a bath!

The Sea Lion show is corny, but the Sea Lions are very cool

Fritters!

to try out my new frying pan (birthday present :-) ) I made some vegie fritters. These were "pizza" fritters. In that I added a sachet of pizza sauce, some oregano, and some parmesan cheese to the mix. The vegies used were zucchinni, carrot, pumpkin, peas & corn, mixed together with the other ingredients, some eggs and a little flour. Delicious!!!!

Wood Chop

We rested our legs for a while and sat and watched the Wood Chopping.

Flowers at the Ekka

Agricultural Pavillion

mmmm tomatoes!!

Dagwood Dog

Janet had a dagwood dog for lunch. Along with every second other person there!

Sideshow Alley!

The only ride we went on was the Ferris Wheel. It went a lot faster than I thought it would! We had to line up for a while to get on - there seems to be a fine art to balancing each carraige. EIther that or they just have a completely random way of selecting passengers from the muddle that is meant to be the queue. The view was good.

We had a go on the Clowns and won a couple of little toys. The same size toy that I won by popping balloons with a dart.

on the news....at the Ekka

We stopped by the Channel 9 studio, where you can be on the tv screen. You stand in front of green screen, and the picture is shown on the screen next to it. My green shirt made for an interesting effect.....

Random Ekka Food

The Woolworths Fresh FOod Pavillion was full of delicious looking morsels!

piles of strawberries

Chocolate fountains

more strawberries

Lemon Meringue tarts

Donuts!

While I had my icecream, Janet managed to find some Organic Donuts! She tried a plain one - it was very tasty. (I don't think it would be possible to find an organic Mock cream donut!!)

Ekka Food - the strawberry icecream

The traditional Strawberry Icecream is still as good as ever. It costs $4.50, but it is well worth it :-) DELICIOUS!!!!

(I did only eat one of them!!)