Our family day at the Melbourne Show!

We had an awsome opportunity to go to the Royal Melbourne Show this year. I had managed to win 2 family passes to the show so we took Scott and Tara and the girls to the show. We packed a picnic lunch to save more money and budgeted for a couple rides and the kids had been saving their pocket money for 4 weeks to get their choice of showbags. We came to see how expensive a day like this could be..... anyway let me tell you how great it was!

There was pavillion after pavillion of all kinds of farming animals that the kids could get up close and personal with. We saw show dogs, baby animals, alpachas, horse jumping, woodchopping competitions, cow milking, bees making honey, tractor rides, all sorts of things bringing the country to the city. We had the traditional corn dogs, hot jam donuts and couldn't stomach the fairy floss. There was singing, kids shows and a long line to the toilets!!!!!!!!!
Farmer Jacob!
This was Charlotte's favourite animal - the alpacha's so she took her own photo from her height. The animals were all the same size if not bigger than her and sooo soft.

these exhibits were followed closely by some rides, jumping castles and alot of noise. Here Jacob had to pull and Brooklyn pushed Charlotte up to reach the top of the castle.

Here is Jason and the kids in the massive ferreswheel that overlooked the whole showgrounds, pretty much you could see most of Melbourne as well. It was absolutely massive. You can see Melbourne city in the distant background there.

A family shot, clearly I went on no rides with the size of my belly but we all had a fabulous time.

The big slides were a favourite........... here are some close up shots!

After all this fun, the kids got to spend their hard earned pocket money at the Showbag pavillion. Once Jacob worked out he could walk away with 1 toy bag or 3 chocolate novelty bags, I think he made the sensible choice. We were only there a few hours but we were all exhausted!
We had a fabulous day that I'm sure the kids and their cousin's will all remember for quite a while. Now home so Tara and I can put our feet up!