Actually, as I was writing this, Kimberly wrote to Sabrina and summed it all up pretty well! So, stealing shamelessly from a private e-mail sent to Sabrina by her mother, here you go:
“This weekend we went to Floriade. Each year Canberra picks a theme - this year's theme is Australian movie legends. Then they haul a bunch of dirt into Commonwealth Park and make large garden patches where previously there was nothing. In the gardens they plant a bunch of different kinds of flowers to represent something from their theme. The problem with all this is that the flower beds are flat and massive (probably 50 feet x 50 feet or more) so unless you happen to be freakishly tall, walking by on a pair of stilts, or flying your helicopter over the park, you have no idea what the picture is they are trying to convey. They have little signs with drawings of what it's supposed to look like, but honestly it could look like just about anything and no one would ever know. That being said there were a lot of flowers in bright vivid colors and it was rather pretty.
This is, of course, part of a piano keyboard...
Yes, this is all temporary, built just for Floriade...
We also went to a church festival where they advertised that they were having Tongan food. Having never had Tongan food before we were curious. They had three food options. A pig wrapped in foil, a fruit drink with smashed fruit bits and watermelon juice (I don't like watermelon), and a dessert made from spinach - dessert should not be made from spinach. Ryan decided to try the spinach dessert. I had a bite too. It tasted like pureed spinach that was made into a pudding and then had gelatin added to it and then they took the jello after it had set and stirred it up so that it was lumpy and then they put a caramel sauce on top. I stick by my initial assessment - dessert should not be made from spinach.”
Well summerized, indeed! Except we also had lava-hot spring rolls and a few dim sums at the church festival...It’s all about the food to me...
