I leave home on Friday 29 April with a wonderful full rainbow early in the morning accompaning my Dad and I to the airport. Don't you think it's beautiful?
I was excited about my usual Qantas meal of Sanitarium Rice Bubbles or Cornflakes, but got Weet-bix intead this time with soy milk. Also the usual nanaberry made with quinoa flour, that doesn't seem as exciting as it first was, but it's still worthy of mention. See my previous Sydney blog for more on this.
We had decided to stay in for dinner tonight and make a vegetable stir fry as it was cold and we were going out tomorrow. So we headed to buy some food for our meal: zucchini, carrot, broccoli, mushrooms, bok choy, red capsicum plus some marinated tofu squares and some gluten-free crispy noodles. I forgot to take a photo of the great meal I cooked up for Jess, Nina (Jess's friend) and myself, sorry. But you can be assured that it was colourful and delicious! We also had sago desserts afterwards when we were watching the Runaways movie that is about Joan Jett and the other gals from the Runaways before Joan became a solo artist. A few people told me this was a good movie. It wasn't. But, I guess it was much better than watching the wedding of two people in another country who I don't even know. But we did see a bit of the church part when inserting the DVD and the waving at the crowd part when ejecting said DVD.
We were meant to head to Mandee's Sydney Vegan Bake Sale as part of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale before brunch, but ended up missing it as I'd slept in. We found out later that Mandee and crew ended up raising over $800 for their charity of the month, Brightside Farm Sanctuary, an animal sanctuary in Tasmania! Back in Brisbane, the Green Earth Group volunteers - including my supportive parents - had been busy baking and were holding our own bake sale at the West End markets for the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale to raise money for Green Earth Group and to raise awareness of the environmental consequences of the mainstream diet.
Jess and I wandered around Newtown for awhile, I bought a new dress that's sort of like a double-breasted jacket without the sleeves - it's white with a lot of orange and other colours splattered around on it, sounds great, hey!? We also stopped at Vegans Choice to get some of my favourite Addiction brownies and I bought some takeaway from Green Palace Thai for late lunch. We had a few chores to do and ended up at Rozelle to check out the second-hand shops I love and only bought one dress at U-Turn! Jess and I headed home to catch up on some work before dinner.
Jess and I didn't have any room for dessert so we headed home to have an early night before the big day. We found out later that Sundara and Kellie had gone to Green Gourmet for dessert.
Today Jess and I got up early to get to the Sydney Vegan Expo held at the Ultimo Community Centre. The expo is organised by the Vegan Society NSW and has been going since 2006 when Loren from Bounty Burgers originally had the idea and organised the first one then. I was at the original event and it's definitely come a long way! I was working at the Cruelty Free Super stall next to Jess' stall and there was a lot of great feedback from people about superannuation that actually is cruelty-free. These events are always great to meet other like-minded people, catch up with old friends, make new friends and meet people from my mailing list.
Quite a few of my friends had stalls here and as well as catching up with them, I ate some of my favourite things: gozleme, rice paper rolls from Nourishing Quarter, more brownies from Addiction Food, yes love them, plus some divine cheesecakes and cupcakes from the wonderful gals at RubyFruit bakery, yum!
Here's a photo below that Sundara took of me just after me falling down from the door behind when I was trying to get closer to the street sign to get a better photo. Didn't work. Hurt my hands.
I ordered the Deep fried ice-cream AU$6.40 that you can check out the photo in my previous blog about Green Gourmet and my last deep fried ice-cream in Sydney. After dinner and finally getting back to Jess', Jess and I stayed up later than we thought we would catching up on all the day's adventures.