The Bell Family

Well, this is the first that we’ve attended the local show as a “family”… I must confess, I’ve been looking forward to taking Laura on some rides, visiting the animal displays and generally being a “big” kid myself.

So with Laura, Chrissy and my Mum (Nanna) in tow, we all headed to the show. After grabbing a bite to eat, we took Laura on a pony ride. At first she was a bit hesitant, although she wasn’t as scared as she was a few months ago when we first introduced her to ponies at the farm, and by the end of it, I think she actually enjoyed the ride! See obligatory photo below.

After the pony ride, we had a look at animal display and saw a variety of snakes. I picked Laura up so that she could see what was going on. She said the word “snake” pretty well straight away and when I asked her what sound they make, she said “ssssssssss”!

After a quick look at the snakes, we visited farm animal display and Laura got to see and pat some: pigs; goats; ducks; sheep; guinea pigs and many other animals. She thought it was great!

After leaving the animal display, we went past a huge multi-coloured slide which I thought would be fun for Laura, but they wanted $5 for three slides and if I wanted to take Laura, I would have to pay for two people. Therefore I decided against the idea. But a little while later, I saw another “huge” slide which Laura and I could ride together and we got five slides for the price of three… It was pretty big, so initially I was a little concerned about what Laura’s reaction would be, so I used my shoes to slow the pace down a little so that Laura wouldn’t be scared…. She loved it of course and in no time was shouting the words of encouragement – “more, more”!!! So we had a lot more fun on the slide and here’s some photo’s Laura and Daddy having fun!!!

Nanna had to leave for work, but we met up with Uncle Dan shortly after. The lucky “son-of-a” won a huge “Winnie-the-Pooh” teddy and “Fish” just by playing two, $2 games. Of course, Uncle Dan gave these to Laura, which she thought was awesome…

Later on in the night we took a ride on the Merry-Go-Round. Some of my mate’s reckon that I was using Laura as an excuse, because I really wanted to go on the ride myself

After that, Chrissy and Laura went to centre ring to watch some more action and I went on a couple more rides with a mate. After the rides, I met back up with Chrissy and Laura just in time to watch the Holden Stormrider Ute precision driving display and we then saw the fireworks. Laura was quite scared initially, but once we held her close and covered her ears, she didn’t seem to mind as much. This year’s fireworks display was one of the best we’ve seen at the show for quite some time and we really enjoyed it.

So after many rides, the compulsory dose of ‘show food’ and lots of displays, a fun time was had by everyone.

Until next time…

Take it easy,
Jason.