The Sydney Royal Easter Show - I wanna go!
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This is the time of year when all the kid’s in NSW get excited, not as much as we adults do though, because it’s Easter Show time!
For those of you who don’t know and have never been The Royal Easter Show is the biggest thing to hit Sydney each year, and not surprisingly, it is getting more expensive each year to go. But who cares…we go for the fun, the rides, to see the folk from the rural areas showing their beautiful livestock and those hunks who do the woodchopping contests. We go to eat loads of very overpriced rubbish and then throw it all up on the roller coaster, or the ferris wheel.
I have not been to a Show since 1997 but have vivid memories of all the show’s I have been to back when I was a kid. We always went every year. When we were kids in the 70’s Dad would give my sister and me $2.00 each (!) and we would take all day spending it and come home with arm loads of stuff…these days’ sadly that $2.00 would not buy you a can of cola. Back then the show bags were priced between 30 cents and $1.50 but boy were they loaded with goodies. When we got home we would lay all our loot out over our beds and decide which to eat first.
The popular show bags back then were the Commonwealth Bank Bag where you always got money boxes, pencils, books and other good stuff. Then there were the Freddo Frog/Bertie Beetle Bags; all the kids bought these ones, the Schweppes or Coca Cola bags were next as you got cans of soft drink and crisps as well as toys in them. My own favourites were the Fielders Bakery Bag as you got easter hot cross buns in them, a couple of loaves of fresh bread, butter, jam and honey samples. Mum always bought the Red Tulip bag for the chocolates. The showbag pavilion was so crowded you had to walk single file to get through the crush. And, for some reason, each year we went it always rained and by the time we got back to the car our showbags (made from paper back then) were soaked and started to fall apart.
It was about $5.00 for a family entry back then, these days people pay with credit cards as it has got so expensive. But what hasn’t these days? it was a lot of fun.
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