We had planned to attend the 25th Canberra multicultural festival and woke to the news that not only was it going to be hottest day of summer so far, my mother has been discharged from hospital, but a colleague of my husband's collapsed and died in hospital overnight.
So it was with mixed emotions that we attended today and also some vehicle fun and games... we're not sure 100% what's going on at the moment but the radiator reservoir keeps empting itself and after 4hrs at the multicultural festival hubby wasn't in the mood for my random check of the radiator fluid level coming up empty again. (In true man logic, he bought 5L of ready-made coolant to drain the system tomorrow, but despite knowing there was a leak, didn't bother leaving it in the car as a precaution, or carrying extra water
o_o: )... and when I checked and found the reservoir empty yet again, he was not impressed. (It's the head in the sand approach to this problem!)
So lunch out was Ethiopian, I'd eaten the vegan samosa before remembering to take the photo, sorry about that. I love inerja and we've often eaten their food before at this festival. The plate is $10 (roughly £5) and whilst it doesn't look much, it tastes great.
Then we moved on to a Greek "Loukoumades"... deep fried dough balls (vegan ones) served with maple syrup. Hubby wasn't particularly fond of them, I liked them, but not loved.
Then we spotted 3 flavours of gelato at an Italian kiosk, that is 3 vegan flavours... and given it was 37°C at this point (98F I think) we surrendered!
Watermelon and something, passionfruit and something and lemon. The last 2 were my favourites. It was delicious!
And sometime later we walked passed a Mexican stall selling churros and they were naturally vegan if you only had the cinnamon sugar on them. Hubby was sugared out at this point, so we didn't get to walk around all of the stalls. I think we missed about a third of the festival stalls out but the heat was getting to him and even if he didn't realise it, I did, he was dehydrated, so we hit the shops in the air conditioned shopping centre and went to the acacia place for a berry acacia smoothie minus the banana.
Luckily we made it home after the second visit to the car parts and spares place in 3 days. I made him buy the undiluted stuff this time round (there are 4 different coolants in Australia, all colour coded and you can't mix them at all...) so I could top up with neat coolant to counter the plain water that had to go in as an emergency on Thursday when I found myself 60km from home and with an empty reservoir.
Back on the diet tomorrow!
