2012 Adelaide All Japan Day #1

On the 26th of February the 2012 All Japan Day car show was held at Wigley Reserve, Glenelg. There was a great turnout, with row after row of cool Japanese cars of all ages, shapes and sizes filling up the oval.

I parked next to this tidy white M35 Nissan Stagea.

You can see AJD organiser Kristian Appelt of Iron Chef Imports in front of my Ceffy here.

On the other side was this slammed Toyota Celsior.

A few spaces further down was this very clean and tastefully modified Cefiro, the dished meshies really work well on it.

There were several immaculate Datsun 1600s/510s on display.

Quite a few cars came in on trailers, and also a couple of tilt trays, including this awesome Toyota JZX100 Chaser, which needed a couple of pieces of wood to drive onto the grass without ripping the front bar off.

Next to it was Kelly Wong's distinctive pink and black Cefiro drifter.

At first I was wondering if this Nissan 180SX had some sort of sticker-bomb wrap on the exterior panels, but on closer inspection and talking to the owner, I learned that they're all individual stickers. That's dedication for you, although this sticker-bomb method was probably a lot cheaper than nice paint.

Nissan Cedrics of any vintage are quite a rare sight, and this late model Y34 example in black looked really nice.

There was a slight difference in ride height for these two Nissans; a very early model Patrol 4WD parked next to a lawnmower spec S14.5 200SX.

The owner of this Toyota Cressida wagon shied away from using the original engine, giving it a 1JZ-GTE heart transplant.

There were only a couple of C33 Nissan Laurels in attendance, including Daniel's black one.

I don't know how this tough looking Toyota JZX100 Chaser Mark II drives anywhere without getting beached.

A few different siblings lined up; R34, R33 and R32 Nissan Skylines respectively.

Stageas are pretty popular now, the black/white combo on this wagon worked well.

Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R in Bayside Blue...one of my dream cars.

There were loads of JZX100s at the show, with various body styling and rim choices.

Plenty more cool cars to come in Post #2....

Ella's Story: Hospital at home

With Ella recovering fairly well after the surgery, the medical team cleared her for having hospital at home the next day. She still needed lots of care and medications, but it was much nicer for everybody to be in a peaceful home environment.

When I dropped around in the late afternoon, she was lying on the lounge with Daniel, still looking pretty wiped out, but more alert than in hospital. My mum found a few 'Ella' and 'Scarlett' sticker books to give the girls, which she had a look at.

 As usual she was watching the Lion King, along with Anita and Zoe, with Scarlett wandering around and trying to eat her sticker books.

 She was still quite shaky and unbalanced, but she wanted to go outside in her new special backyard, so I helped her over to the cubby, where she lay down on the pile of cushions in the corner.

After a little while Emily came out to see if Ella was doing ok. Still somewhat sleepy, she and Emily sang a song. I think I need to do some more research on kids' songs; I either don't know what they are, or only know a few lines, while Ella generally knows the whole thing.

 Everyone else was having pizza for dinner, but Ella wasn't really interested in eating yet, and gingerly walked a few laps around the trampoline.

 She then got some pizza from Daniel, but only so she could use it to finger-paint a window, with Scarlett a willing accomplice.

 They decided the car should have some pizza sauce decoration as well.

Wandering over the other end of the yard, Ella went inside her cubby again, putting a shoe in front of her face for some reason, followed by reading a book.

Scarlett thought it would be fun to use Emily as a trampoline and claw her eyes out.

 After playing outside for a little while, Ella crashed again, looking very worn out while Emily held her on the lounge.

One of her medications involves some rather nasty nose drops, the administering of which isn't much fun for anybody.

 With the brief but unpleasant experience over, Ella settled back down to dozing in Emily's arms.

Daniel carried her off to bed, where she woke up a little bit more, insisting that Daniel read her a bedtime story before she went to sleep.

 She looked a bit calmer, still quite washed out, but doing relatively well, and soon drifted off again. Simply going to sleep in her own environment was a lot less stressful, without constant beeping, talking, noise, crying and coughing typical of a children's ward.

Here you can see their Christmas tree is only partially decorated, due to Ella thinking the baubles were food, and Scarlett thinking they were bouncy balls.