Christmas times is
my prime as it is the one time the family gets together and is my favourite
time of the year.
From the smiles I
see on my girls faces as they wake up in the morning in excitement as Santa ate
their cookies and drank their milking leaving loads of presents under their
beautifully decorated Christmas tree.
The last three years
the first taste of Christmas for my family has been with Santa’s Magical
Kingdom.
Santa’s Magical
Kingdom for the last two, maybe even three years has been as Caulfield
Racecourse, which is a little bit of a bugger with traffic.
The past two years
have been very similar, almost the same thing. So this year we were expecting
everything to be the same. It was
similar but there were a few tweaks and a few new things but generally the
same.
The difference this
year is the layout, but also things like the Aeroplane Jelly stand where the
kiddies got to colour in a Christmas bauble for their Christmas tree at home.
There was an extra
bigger kids ride outside with the ferris wheel to, where you sat and it went
round and round- Hayley’s face was classic.
Two things we didn’t
worry about going into this year, the first being Santa photos. The past two
years we’ve found them to be overpriced for what you get. The photos aren’t printed
the best and the last two Santa’s we had fell very short of average.
The second this we didn’t
bother going to see was the International circus as the girls have been twice
the prior year and both times the sets were exactly the same, the only difference
being a couple of slip ups that had the parents on the edge of their seat. Not
going into the circus worked in our favour though, as the girls got to go on
whatever rides they wanted without a single line.
But I think as a
child I would have absolutely loved every aspect of this event and would have
been hanging for the next year to fly around. My girls loved it, so this Mummy
loved it; although my poor feet would have to disagree with me.
Gingerbread
decorating was on the list again this year, that the girls eating bits and
pieces of before even finishing their decorations.
There was bubble
snow again, with a special appearance from what I think was meant to be Elsa
and Anna in which my girls loved and Mum walked out looking like the Olaf the snowman
overed in bubbles.
As with previous
years there was the massive slipper slide racing.
Rides like the caterpillar
and the giant ferris wheel make an appearance again as well and is always the
family favourite.
There was Mrs Claus’
story telling but my girls wanted to play no part in the whole sitting down and
keeping still thing.
Food stalls were the
same with things like hot chips, hot dogs, slushies and the standard kind of
take away foods, which is great.
Overall the night
out is great and you can just hear the joy in the room and children dashing off
to this that and the other, which is a sight to see and the meaning of
Christmas in a way.
Our Christmas wouldn’t
be the same if we didn’t have Santa’s Magical Kingdom.
