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CibbuanoThe Sydney Royal Easter Show!
April 11th 2006 11:00
Category: Festivals & Shows
The Sydney Royal Easter Show and I have had a long and interesting past, we've had our sunny and our rainy days, the tears and tantrums, poor quality food with little nutritional value, and of course an armful of show bags.
And that was just last years efforts, I wonder what this year has in store?
Back in those heady days of the mid ninety's when the show made its home at the old and very muddy showground, when I was a third of my height, the Easter show was it. It was the ultimate, second only to Christmas and equal with Birthdays. For pretty much one reason...
The Bertie Beetle show bag.
...These were not the Bertie Beetle bags as we know them today (there are now 4 varieties) they were the best and cheapest thing you could get at the show and were packed full of goodies that you could gorge yourself on weeks later when all of the Easter eggs had long since been eaten.
I know, I'm probably looking back on my past with the Easter show with vision a little poorer that 20/20, but when you’re a kid it was such a fantastic time, and Bertie was always so good to you.
The Easter show has changed a lot since I was young, instead of good value for money type stuff where you give quite a lot for a considerably lower price, now days the challenge is to find a bag that isn’t full of useless junk and may contain something edible to sustain you through the day. But I guess it was always that way, I just grew out of my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phase and onto bigger and better things, especially when the money was no longer so readily available from the cash machines, also known sometimes as parents.
While the Easter show may appear to be all about the commercial element (show bags, $5 cans of coke etc) don’t forget that the show is primarily there to bring the country lifestyle to the city, showing young children what a cow looks and smells like, how dangerous the job of 'rodeo clown' actually is and how cool whip cracking is if you can do it properly. There are a whole stack of similar events at the show, and I suggest you try to take some of them in, rather than just focusing on how much stuff you can accumulate... also it’s all free!
So my advice for this year is go and check it out, have a look around, make sure you catch some wood chopping and the rodeo, try and avoid the vast array of Army related show bags and the Pluto Pups. If you haven’t been for a few years you might find the prices a little steep, but you’re there to have a good time right?
And the last piece of advice, pay homage to your past, pick up a Bertie beetle show bag, still the best value for money bag at the Easter show, can’t beat a $2 bag of the best chocolate around
Show link tickets (train fare and entry fee):
Adult - $29
Concession - $23.50
child - $19.50
For more niformation on events and entertainment, check out the site here.
The show runs from the 7th to the 20th of April.
And that was just last years efforts, I wonder what this year has in store?
Back in those heady days of the mid ninety's when the show made its home at the old and very muddy showground, when I was a third of my height, the Easter show was it. It was the ultimate, second only to Christmas and equal with Birthdays. For pretty much one reason...
The Bertie Beetle show bag.
...These were not the Bertie Beetle bags as we know them today (there are now 4 varieties) they were the best and cheapest thing you could get at the show and were packed full of goodies that you could gorge yourself on weeks later when all of the Easter eggs had long since been eaten.
I know, I'm probably looking back on my past with the Easter show with vision a little poorer that 20/20, but when you’re a kid it was such a fantastic time, and Bertie was always so good to you.
The Easter show has changed a lot since I was young, instead of good value for money type stuff where you give quite a lot for a considerably lower price, now days the challenge is to find a bag that isn’t full of useless junk and may contain something edible to sustain you through the day. But I guess it was always that way, I just grew out of my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phase and onto bigger and better things, especially when the money was no longer so readily available from the cash machines, also known sometimes as parents.
While the Easter show may appear to be all about the commercial element (show bags, $5 cans of coke etc) don’t forget that the show is primarily there to bring the country lifestyle to the city, showing young children what a cow looks and smells like, how dangerous the job of 'rodeo clown' actually is and how cool whip cracking is if you can do it properly. There are a whole stack of similar events at the show, and I suggest you try to take some of them in, rather than just focusing on how much stuff you can accumulate... also it’s all free!
And the last piece of advice, pay homage to your past, pick up a Bertie beetle show bag, still the best value for money bag at the Easter show, can’t beat a $2 bag of the best chocolate around
Show link tickets (train fare and entry fee):
Adult - $29
Concession - $23.50
child - $19.50
For more niformation on events and entertainment, check out the site here.
The show runs from the 7th to the 20th of April.
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