Show update
Well it’s taken me a day or two to catch up but here ’tis. The show was awesome fun – we got there at 10 am just as the gates opened, and we didn’t arrive home until 1930, so it was a big day. B managed to stay awake in the car all the way home until about 30 seconds from the driveway, at which point he passed out and we couldn’t wake him up so we put him to bed 
Started the day with a ride on the dodgem cars – I filmed it as until my back is fixed dodgems are not the safest mode of transport for me! Incidentally – LOVE the new video camera. Have I mentioned the cameras yet? If not I’ll do that shortly… B had a ball and we watched the footage last night which was really cool. It’s pretty special to be able to have moments like that preserved so we can watch them whenever. After that it was on to the giant slide – a source of terror for him last year, but this year he loved it. Got some great footage of he and R coming down the slide together holding hands. Another go on it at the end of the day saw him use up all four tickets (you get four for 3 bucks I think it is) and loving it – cackling away to himself as he got to the bottom.
We wandered around a bit – R and I got fake tattos airbrushed on. I got a chinese character on my inner left wrist (the character for Eternity) and R got a cool phoenix on her shoulder blade, which looked sexy. B got bored so we went to have a look at the inflatable shark – this massive slide which involved the kids climbing up to the back of a “wave” and sliding down the charks gullet to be spewed out onto the remnants of an inflatable boat the shark was supposed to be eating. Quite an impressive thing actually – and B enjoyed it.
One of the most fun things was the aero jump, a ride where the little ones bounced on a trampoline while attached to a harness with big bungees so they went really high. There was a nice young guy standing on the tramp B went onto (there was a helper kid on each one), and he looked after him. B went pretty damn high and loved it – chortling and yelling “yikes!” all the time. Again, more great footage and some nice still shots
We had lunch, meandered about a bit and went to a few different places. We wandered through some of the arts and crafts displays – there was an awesome selection of calligraphy to look at. Some of it was pretty amazing, and a fair number of pieces were in gaelic, which was interesting. Then we discovered the book city hall – book city had a massive sale there, most books 50% off, and 30% off the whole purchase So I picked up about 70 dollars worth of books for $14.60 which I was quite pleased with. Next time I think we’ll do two show runs – one for the normal rides etc and one with just R and myself on the last day to pick up as many books as we can – that way we don’t have to carry em about while we’re at the show, and they’ll be pushing to move them cheaper on the last day 
After that we went moseying again and looked at some showbags, B had a pony ride and we went to see the shrek show. Unfortunately the queue was incredible, so we skipped it and went into the pets place instead. There was a case full of beautiful bengali kittens, which a guy was having fun with getting them to chase a feather thingy. Loads of gorgeous cats about the place, and then B got to hold a rabbit and look at some snakes and lizards. He seems fascinated with lizards – maybe I’ll get him one as a pet one day I’d love to have an iguana just loose about the house. Especially for the fright factor of having a house guest sitting on the armchair, casually look upward and have the daylights scared out of them seeing an enormous lizard perched atop the bookcase staring at them >:)
We played some of the carnival games – I won B a little monkey on the darts, and he had a go at a couple of things. The carnies were really sweet and helped him out, ensuring he got a prize but the best was a young irish guy. R was wearing my Celtics cap and he saw it straight away and mentioned that we’d probably be lucky because we’re Celtic supporters – as was he So he helped B get the balls into the bucket by continually passing him one back and finally catching the last one and dumping it in there! So B picked an enormous white tiger to carry off home and was well chuffed with himself. I scored myself a Kermit on the darts so I was very happy – wanted to get something for R but she was being all sensible hehe. Next time I’ll just do it anyways.
We bought showbags, and an inflatable superbat for the little one. He got a Shrek showbag, which included a woolly hat with shrek ears on it which he immediately stuck on his head for the rest of the day! After we were done with everything we caught a cab round the corner to see ‘Big Michael’ and Sian which was nice. R and I were completely exhausted – as was B but he wasn’t going to admit to it.
Finally we went home and counted our goodies, then eventually R and I collapsed into bed. All in all a wonderful day – I had a brilliant time and I’m looking forward to doing it again
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