Lean, mean, duck-feeding machine
Kings had some personal errands to run here, and a local friend of his studied architecture in this town… It’s a 2-day school week for Rockstar so we decided to follow him and hang around…So… where’s here? Hints:
Joyriding Rockstar in quiet, fairly empty airport around 10.30am on a holiday
“Any food?” (Dead giveaway, this one)
“Rice Krispies” (Rockstar’s thing since making some pudding thing during recent school summer camp – to be exact they’re the little individually-packed ones from Aji Ichiban). After going thru the X-ray, they wave us on without opening our bags.
Didn't catch the mummy in the red boots, but did manage a pic of this guy in groovy pink shorts
Driving into town, a mummy with a baby harness crosses the road in front of us. She’s wearing a trendy faded black denim blazer with embroidery on it, huge sunnies, a dark scarf with one bright yellow stripe, and dark red boots with black kitten heels. Her baby harness matches the boots, though her baby is in head-to-upper-body-that-I-can-see-above-harness hot pink.
Enter the town
We pass quite a few churches, several chiropractors, funeral services – Kings insists on snapping a bus ad of a funeral service (that he sees several times during our drive) “Because that guy in the ad (whom we assume is the funeral director) has such a big smile – shouldn’t he look a bit more sad?.”
Uh… My own favorite sign is the one in front of a church that reads, “Blessing of pets welcome.” Kings whizzes by too fast for me to snap a pic. And I am not putting his funeral service ad picture up. Humph.
View from brunch seat
Other View From Brunch Seat - and check out the shop behind these two, it reads "Bimbo"
We had Greek for our first brunch off the plane btw... The Moussaki was outstanding. Rockstar wants me to stop taking pictures so he can dig in
Bimbo is awesome. They carry interesting kitschy jewelry made of little plastic toys, tape measures, toothbrushes – Rockstar and I went in while waiting for the food, and I got the ribboned “brooch” made with plastic horses in the pic above.
Like so...
Check out the pendant made out of a black plug... And the toothbrush earrings in back
Rockstar gets a tape measure that looks like a robot (he’s in a “measuring” phase – no he can’t quite do it properly yet but does this deter him? Noooo.) There is actual (expensive) stuff I used to see on occasion in Lane Crawford or On Pedder that looks like some of this stuff… I can imagine similar fish-shapes (above) or race-cars (below) bracelets being sold by some of the high-end designers…
Power rangers and hair curlers
Though maybe not the hair curlers.
I’m on the fence about the Power Rangers. I don’t like them as earrings but can totally imagine them being a pendant. I used to have a Star Wars one of gold C3PO, about 2 inches long. When I was like, 5. But I’d still wear one kitschy item. Though not racehorse brooch. I bought that as a souvenir to frame up. Oh but wait – I haven’t got to Where Not In Kansas Are We yet. Ok more hints:
Somewhere in this town is a vandal who is a Michael Jackson fan.
- Somewhere in this town is an – oh, why bother, even Rockstar can read this
Somewhere in this town are people very proud of sucking at vegetarianism
Somewhere in this town is "udder" delight
And my feeble attempt at a red herring.......
Oh wait. I gave the game away in one of the shots didn’t I?
That’s right, the Rockstar is in Adelaide, South Australia.
Hi there, I am a silent reader of yours (until now) and is living in Adelaide too. If you are still around, and has a car hire, you can try visiting the Biggest Rocking Horse in Gumeracha (in the Adelaide Hills). It is in a spot call Toy Factory. The wooden horse is approximately 3 storeys high where you can climb up to the top.
Hey thanks, Christina! What a coincidence, we just went, and I had some pictures of Rockstar feeding the animals for my next post – so technically, you just wrote my spoiler haha Rockstar and Kings were more into the animals than the actual wooden toys Toy Factory has, though… Then we ended up buying (of all things) lotsa old stamps from different countries that we found in a cardboard box there… But besides the obligatory rocking horse shot, it was absolutely worth it to look around, observe the many different wooden toys and yes feed the animals loads