Yesssss!!!
I'm going to the Sydney Royal Easter Show (or, just The Show) tomorrow and I can't wait! I haven't been in years.
For those who don't know, The Easter Show is a massive event that was historically for city to meet country, or some such. Much agriculture and farmy stuff. Don't get me wrong, there still is farmy stuff (produce pavilion, anyone?), but now, there's way, way more stuff and plenty more attractions, such as wood-chopping (which I've always loved), the dog/cat pavilions, the dog show, the industry and agriculture pavilion (which is boring, it's just loads of fruit and veggies on display), the arts and crafts pavilion (which I hate and my mother loves), games, rides and food. Oh, and the bird of prey show, the precision driving and the fireworks!
But the real reason that anyone ever even thinks about going to The Show is the showbags. Showbags are fantastic...If over-priced and full of crap, lol. I'm not sure which ones I'm going to get this year, it's always so hard to decide. Frankly, the way I see it, if you can get out of the showbag pavilion alive, you should get a mass of them. Every time I've been to The Show that particular pavilion if more packed than anywhere else. Ever. And what's worse is that the place is chockers with children. Ghastly things.
I'm going to get my brother the Spongebob bag, though, because he's not coming with us (because even though he sort of wants to, but mostly doesn't want to) and if he was, he'd say no. I know he'll think it's funny though, because he comes home from school, gets a snack and sits down to watch some episodes of Spongebob. He's nearly eighteen.
I'm thinking about getting the Spider-man showbag, and maybe the Ironman bag, even though I hate Ironman (the backpack is really cool!!). Or maybe the POTC Dead Man's Chest bag...Comes with a belt and bandana and stuff. Or the Wonka bag...Hm...Mafia bag? OK, I can't make these decisions yet...
But for some reason, no matter what showbag you get, you always get either a plastic inflatable mallet or bat. These wretched things will make up a large part of the sea of discarded items you'll see at the end of the day and they always cause a massive fight between siblings....I should know. Especially this one year when my brother and I each got a mallet, I think it was...Mum poked holes in them both and pretended to be concerned when we were upset that they wouldn't inflate any more.
Mum's reading about some of the events that are on in the Show Guide and keeps yelling out things we could go see, for example "Chook Washing at ten o'clock!". I'm not sure that I want to go and see a bunch of chickens being washed. But maybe I might - I've never seen a mass chicken washing before, so who knows? It might be fun.
Anyway, I'll update tomorrow and let you all in on my fabulous world of junk food, over-priced crap and more public transport than one person can safely handle.
I kind of want to see that chook washing, now.
For those who don't know, The Easter Show is a massive event that was historically for city to meet country, or some such. Much agriculture and farmy stuff. Don't get me wrong, there still is farmy stuff (produce pavilion, anyone?), but now, there's way, way more stuff and plenty more attractions, such as wood-chopping (which I've always loved), the dog/cat pavilions, the dog show, the industry and agriculture pavilion (which is boring, it's just loads of fruit and veggies on display), the arts and crafts pavilion (which I hate and my mother loves), games, rides and food. Oh, and the bird of prey show, the precision driving and the fireworks!
But the real reason that anyone ever even thinks about going to The Show is the showbags. Showbags are fantastic...If over-priced and full of crap, lol. I'm not sure which ones I'm going to get this year, it's always so hard to decide. Frankly, the way I see it, if you can get out of the showbag pavilion alive, you should get a mass of them. Every time I've been to The Show that particular pavilion if more packed than anywhere else. Ever. And what's worse is that the place is chockers with children. Ghastly things.
I'm going to get my brother the Spongebob bag, though, because he's not coming with us (because even though he sort of wants to, but mostly doesn't want to) and if he was, he'd say no. I know he'll think it's funny though, because he comes home from school, gets a snack and sits down to watch some episodes of Spongebob. He's nearly eighteen.
I'm thinking about getting the Spider-man showbag, and maybe the Ironman bag, even though I hate Ironman (the backpack is really cool!!). Or maybe the POTC Dead Man's Chest bag...Comes with a belt and bandana and stuff. Or the Wonka bag...Hm...Mafia bag? OK, I can't make these decisions yet...
But for some reason, no matter what showbag you get, you always get either a plastic inflatable mallet or bat. These wretched things will make up a large part of the sea of discarded items you'll see at the end of the day and they always cause a massive fight between siblings....I should know. Especially this one year when my brother and I each got a mallet, I think it was...Mum poked holes in them both and pretended to be concerned when we were upset that they wouldn't inflate any more.
Mum's reading about some of the events that are on in the Show Guide and keeps yelling out things we could go see, for example "Chook Washing at ten o'clock!". I'm not sure that I want to go and see a bunch of chickens being washed. But maybe I might - I've never seen a mass chicken washing before, so who knows? It might be fun.
Anyway, I'll update tomorrow and let you all in on my fabulous world of junk food, over-priced crap and more public transport than one person can safely handle.
I kind of want to see that chook washing, now.