Never Trust A Carnie

I was on the hunt for awesome vintage birthday present ideas this weekend, so our first stop today was the Button Willow Bazaar at the St Aloysius Social Club. Tom tried failed to “bat the rat” and win me a prize.

There was also a celebrities-made-out-of-vegetables competition. My favorite was veggie Alan Carr. Tom managed to pick up an awesome birthday card for his brother Jack.

Our second stop was Paradise Gardens in Victoria Park, where they had a steam-powered fairground.

We won prizes in the penny arcade, I took my x-ray and it was all fun and games until...

We took a ride on the waltzers and Tom’s iPhone went missing. We called it minutes after leaving the ride to find that somebody had turned it off, so we knew it had been found. We rushed back to the waltzers and told the man in charge, he said “funny, that’s the third phone to go missing in the last two minutes”. When the ride stopped, we ran around, looking inside each car and then I noticed one of the other guys who worked there had an iPhone in his hand. I asked him if he’d just found it and after acting a bit weird, he sheepishly said “oh yeah, it is” and handed it over. We then found two police men and told them to keep an eye on that ride. It’s scary to think how close it got to being stolen forever.

We were still in shock so decided to head to Canary Wharf and pretend we were in New York.

We ate sushi in the park at Canada Square.

I love this iced milky coffee that they sell. I remember having this at a Chinese restaurant in Canada.

They had the world’s largest Mac broadcasting sporting videos too.

I got an awesome polaroid app for my iPhone.

Afterwards we treated ourselves to wine, cheese, pickles and bread at Gorden’s Wine Bar, in the caves under Embankment.