Moomba

On Monday 10th March we took the kids in to see Moomba. We decided it would be easier to take the train in. This was Bailey's first ride on public transport. He was very excited.

I was pretty dissappointed. I remember the Moomba parade being something spectacular with fabulous floats that went on for hours. It's been years since I've seen a Moomba parade and I was very dissappointed. Although there were some colourful displays of culture, all it was, was people marching down the street and it only went for an hour. We watched it for half an hour cause it was too boring.

This was the multi cultural float. This was one of the 2 floats that I saw.

Can't remember what this one was now.

The kids watching the parade.

We decided to go and find a spot down by the river to watch the water skiing. That's what we went in to see. It was sooooo hot. I think it reached 39 degrees that day. We bought 4 icypoles to eat on our way to the river and it cost me $10. What a rip off!!!

This is the Australia girl Emma Sheers who won the womens' Moomba Masters.

Micayla and Bailey watching the waterskiing with Adrian.

Still watching the waterskiing, but starting to get a little hot and bothered.

I'm getting in front of the camera a lot more now that Micayla has taken an interest in photography.

Micayla has CRACKED IT!!!! She's bored of the water skiing and wants to go on the rides.

She is having a drink from Adrian's camel back that he takes on his motorbike rides. It was a novelty for them to drink this way, which was good because it kept them well hydrated throughout the day. Hate to think how the kids would've been, or how much money we'd spent on drinks if we didn't have these. We took 2 of them and had to refill them from the taps that South East Water had provided and we went through them too.

We decided to go for a walk around the side shows and not watch the wakeboarding. We were going to see the wakeboarding at Carribean Gardens the following week anyway. Then we'd come back after that to watch the jumping. I took Micayla and Bailey on this childs rollercoaster ride. Bailey was too small so I had to go on with him. For a 2 minute ride and queing for about 10 mins in the full sun, it cost me $15.00, another RIP OFF!!!! But the kids loved it. They had a go at winning something. They had to scoop up a crocodile that had a number in its mouth. That cost $4.00 each to win a stupid blow up hammer. Another rip off!!! Then of course we had to have a bag of fairy floss, another $4.

It was just so so hot that we decided we couldn't take anymore of the heat. We were not going back to the river and we were not looking around anymore side shows. We were going home. We left the Yarra River around 3pm and arrived home around 5.30pm. Would've been quicker in the car, but at least we could relax in the airconditioning of the train without the stress of driving.