Otara Markets

On Saturday we went for an outing to the Otara Markets. Daddy Joe has been saying it's really cheap for good fruit and veges for a while I decided to venture out there myself to see if what he said was really the case (actually I knew Mama's donuts were being sold there now and I really wanted one....seriously!)

Even if the produce prices weren't great, I would have been happy if I just got my donut. But it turns out that the fruit and veges really are good quality and amazingly good prices. So we got ourselves quite a haul of a mixture of things.

Don't even ask, the answer's NO

Ella was quite taken by an annoying little toy dog that walked around in a circle and 'woofed'  Definitely NO

Yeeyah, drive to Otara worth it!

Looks pretty stink like I bought this for Faith and Ella really wanted it, but that's not the case. Faith chose candy floss and Ella chose a drink. They were both very very happy with their choices

Seffy's usual 'in the capsule' shot.

Not so happy anymore. We walked around for probably an hour and a half & eventually the novelty wore off for Ella 

Happy again now that we're heading home and they've got a whole bag of strawberries (actually grapes) to share between them. They were $1 per bag of top quality, seedless grapes.....score!!! Ella was adamant they were strawberries?!?!?!

This is the haul of produce we got, minus 20kg potatoes and 6 bags of grapes. Mean!

I really like doing fun things like this together on a saturday, especially when Daddy Joe is working every weekday and sundays are out for church. I feel like Mum and Dad how they used to take us to drive around Dairy Flat (as if we might move there one day!!!?!?!), to the domain, fish and chips in Devonport..... I think the Otara Markets vege run might be a trip for us every few weeks or so, one of our regulars. 

It's fun to be together as a family and have outings, especially when the kids see new things they haven't seen before. Their eyes were really big when we got to the markets cause they've never been in that kind of environment before. It was all new and exciting, oh to be a kid again! Ella was quite taken with an uncoordinated, drunk looking guy that was dancing for money. She kept asking to go back and see the 'dancing boy, he's my friend!'

I wonder what we'll think of to do next weekend, apart from our ward Christmas party of course :)