I went down to visit the Barnyard Babies Nursery today and this calf decided to play peek-a-boo with my skirt. He came up and nudged my leg, and then just stayed there! I got my skirt and flicked it over his head and said “peek-a-boo” and he seemed to like it. So we played for a while. Then he saw someone with a bucket of food and he took off.

Let me introduce you to “Bubble Boy”. We say hello to him everyday, he always has a smile and a heap of bubbles for the Fairies! (Yes, he sells bubble machines).

Dagwood Dogs, Fairy Floss, Strawberry Icecreams, it’s all happening at the Ekka!

More than Daggy Dogs for brekkie, we love the Fairy Floss. Did you know that this one comes in three flavours??

This is the amazing Licorice man. He has, not 10 flavours, not 20 flavours, but 22 different flavours of licorice! (We recommend the Gooseberry!)

And look who I ran into!! This is the ‘Go For 2 & 5′ person! I was very excited to meet him, and he gave me a lovely crunchy cool apple to eat for my fairy lunch! 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of veges every day - YUMMY!

The Enchanted Forest also hosts Family 96.5FM radio, broadcasting live daily during the Ekka.

They talked live on air to the Fairies a few times, and we even sung the Fairy Pokey! I interviewed Tanya Gordon for a job position as a Fairy, and she scored pretty highly. Do you think she’d make a good Fairy Princess? The photo above is of Fairy Princess Stardust’s moment of fame!

Stardust also rocked out with her electric guitar in the Enchanted Forest. Once she saw Rockin’ Ranger Matt go off, she decided to show everyone what a jazz Fairy has going on. She sang her way through the Fairy Pokey and we had a great time being so loud that all the cows up the back started to moo along with us!

We get to be in the main parade! Sometimes, we even go on the back of the ute! It’s a lot of fun and we get to wave at lots of people. Do you like how my sunglasses match my shoelaces!

These ladies are the bashful bathing beauties and are from ‘The Brides of Frank’. They were in the parade with us and they had some fantastic music! Every day, they come in different colourful costumes. Check out their website here.

This is me trying to present the weather at the Foxtel Weather Channel stand. It was very difficult! My wand kept pointing at Perth when I was trying to point at Brisbane! It was a lot of fun though at the people at Foxtel were lovely.

This is one of the Ekka security guards - they all help the Ekka run smoothly! You can tell the people who work for Ekka by their funky purple shirts!

The Enchanted Forest has been visited by some amazing and talented Bush Poets during the Ekka. This is Suzie (with Karen) who came and entertained the kids this afternoon with a fabulous version of ‘Would You Like To Swing On A Star’. You an see Suzie performing all around the Ekka, including on the International Food stage.

This is Mark “Bushie” Thompson, the current Queensland Bush Poet Champion. Bushie is performing around the Ekka, and he even wrote a special poem just for the Fairy Queen!

Our first day at the Ekka and we got to meet a real live bilby! I’ve never seen one before, they are so cute! And there’s not many of them around, so we need to take care of them.

Frank, the Bilby Man, told us all about bilbies and what we could do to help. He even got the Australian Government to declare ‘National Bilby Day‘ (the second Sunday of September, the weekend after Father’s Day). He also told us about the Save The Bilby Fund’s ‘Threatened Animals Crossword Challenge‘ which sounds like a fun thing for you and your school to enter. Great prizes too!

After meeting the bilbies, we played limbo with the kids in the Enchanted Forest! There were some fantastic limbo-ists and Sparkles and Stardust were highly impressed!