I know I am totally late to the table with this one and I
thought about whether or not it was worth even posting about, but I just had to share
our experience at the Melbourne Show this year.
Mr M and I had a lengthy discussion when we got home after
this years show and both agreed that now Miss H is 9 and Miss M is 6 that it is
the perfect age to be taking our kids to the show. It was completely different
from previous years and they truly appreciated every aspect of the show. The
bonus for us was that we also had two very well behaved kids (that we didn’t
have to watch like a hawk in case they wanted to run off in any direction).
We set out with a budget this year and all up we only spent
$300, which if you’ve ever been to the show is pretty damn good! A lot of
things can become quite costly especially if you take kids that have a million
wants. This included rides, food and of
course showbags.
Our family highlights from the show:
Motorbike show-
Miss M is a complete motor nut now ever since getting her
own kit and bike. She’s all for anything that has two wheels and can go fast.
She had no idea there was a Freestlye Motorcross stunt show and To be
fair some of the stunts had me close my eyes as they were in the air off their
bikes more then they were attached to them!
Madi made a comment that when she gets older she wants to do
what the boys were doing, I say reach for the stars my girl!
Playing in the snow
in the Mt Buller Zone-
My little bunnies became snow bunnies earlier this year when
we took off on an adventure to Mnt Buffalo for a weekend away. So as soon as
they saw the bright white frozen stuff they were off and hurling snowballs at
one another.
Fan girling-
The girls both loved meeting familiar faces the watch on the
TV. The Melbourne Show has many different guest appearance and performers each
day of the show. The girls faves of the day were Jane Bun
and Hi-five
Rides –
Although this is what
cost us the most the girls loved every minute of it. I didn’t agree with the
massive price mark-ups but had no say as this was Daddies shout and he was
boss. We ended up going online and buying a kids ticket while sitting having
our lunch within the show already and added a $100 ride voucher as we didn’t
know you had to do this previous to the show. You can pay per ride but if you
got one of the ride cards it gave us $30 bonus rides. So it worked out better
for us to do it this way.
The girls favourite ride this year was of course their all time face dodgem cars. This
was the first year they were tall enough to go on most of the
rides at the show. And it was great to be able to see them go on big girl rides
together and not be scared ( I was scared for them!).
Fireworks-
I think this is everyone’s family favourite and makes it
onto everyone’s highlight wheels. The pyrotechnics
that The Royal Melbourne Show pulls of each and every year is by far the best
we’ve ever seen. You’re just so up close and personal with the fireworks you
have no choice but to just look up and take in the bursts of colour and the
smell of gunpowder and get lost in it all.
I recommend the Melbourne Show to everyone, and if you haven’t
been yet you need to get along to next years one. It’s an amazing (and very
long) day that will have the kids in bed early and hopefully sleeping in for
you in the morning J
And if you’re anything like this family the above also applies to adults, we
were in bed before 10.. and I think we beat the girls to sleep as well (oops).
