The Rockhampton Show

We had a fantastic time on Wednesday at the annual Rockhampton Show. I think Jack was on sensory overload. He absolutely loved it!!
Here he is looking all excited and ready to go.We started in the cooking pavilion to check if we'd won any prizes and look...

I won third prize for my mini cakes!!!

And first prize for my chocolates!! (Mind you there were only two entries for that category)

Here's Jack pointing to his muffin entry. That facial expession says it all!! It's his big smile for one of Mum's painful photos while it's really holding him up from whatever it is he really wants to be doing, which in this case is RIDES!! I don't blame him though.

So he went on a couple of rides before we went and checked out the other pavillions.

We had a look through a couple of pavillions and then grabbed some lunch and sat in the grandstand to watch the Hilux Heroes which is a driving display which was really good. After lunch we were going to have a look at the fish display and there was a little boy who looked like he was just wandering by himself. I just watched him for a couple of minutes and then approached him and yes he was lost. He wasn't distressed or anything and he was only about three. The police have a stand where you can register your details and they issue and ID band and he had one of those on so I took him back to the police stand and he had been reported missing and there were officers out looking for him. I don't know how long he had been wandering for, his poor family would have been beside themselves I'm sure. So we handed him over to the authorities and headed back to our looking around.

There wasn't really that many good stands this year which was a bit dissappointing. The last two years it has rained pretty heavily so I don't know if that turned some of the stall holder off. There is a huge big new shed which held all of the showbag stands. We didn't get a showbag this year. They are sooooooo expensive!! Luckily Jack's not old enough to worry about it.

Then we got to all the action!! Jack had a turn on most of the things. He didn't want to go on the ferris wheel, it was too big but he did want to go on the rollercoaster. Luckily for us he was under the height restriction. I'm sure he would have pee'd his pants if he had gone on it.

Dad took him on the dogem cars and you should have seen his face. He was smiling so much. I've never seen his dimple so pronounced.

He won lots of crappy little prizes...waterpistols, fishing game, inflatable ball etc which of course he loved.

He got a bonus ride on the kiddie ferris wheel, the guy forgot he was on there. You should have seen Jack's face. Every time he'd come past the ride operator he'd eyeball him and then we could see him singing to himself and we're pretty sure he was singing "What About Me".

The bumper boats was one of his favourite rides. The showie that was looking after it was really good with the kids and they all had a ball.

Jack refuses to go down the slide at the local amusement place but insisted on going on this one which is much bigger!! I thought he'd get to the top and chicken out so Dad walked up with him but he went by himself. O said that he said he didn't want to go at first but he went anyway. His face on the way down was hilarious. Mum and I were having a giggle, but when he got to the bottom he gave us a huge grin and wanted to go again. A lovely lady who was standing near us gave us a ticket for the slide and some other tickets for a couple of rides because she was going home and her kids were too big for the rides so that was lovely of her. So Dad went with him the second time.

We stayed and watched the fireworks which was another first for Jack. He normally screams/cries and refuses to look at them but he just lay on Daddy's lap and watched them this time. Dad covered over his ears which I'm sure helped.

It was so much fun, I just LOVE the show. I can't wait for next year!!