We'd been using it as bribery the whole time we'd been in Merimbula... misbehave and you won't go to Magic Mountain! Well, with just a couple of days left of this holiday we thought we'd better honour the promise and head off to Magic Mountain.
Magic Mountain is an amusement park in the bush on a 'mountain' overlooking Merimbula and the waterfront. It cost us a whopping $127 for unlimited ride passes! We got there right on opening time and there were few people around. We went first to the Toboggan ride - a 600 metre toboggan ride down the mountain side in a little toboggan along a stainless steel track. Zac was allowed to go by himself, the others had to ride with us. This turned out to be everyone's favourite ride and we lost count of the number of times we went on it!
Zac apprehensively said he'd go on the Mad Mouse type roller coaster, Ethan was excited about going on it but was a matter of centimetres below the minimum height and they wouldn't let him. Zac was brave, he said he did enjoy the ride but once was enough!
The Grand Prix race track was fun too, the kids taking it in turns to ride along with us.
When going to get golf putters and balls for a round of mini-golf, Gemma was mucking around and somehow fell. She screamed heaps and it appeared she'd hurt her thumb and / or hand. The boys went off and began mini golf while she had some mummy cuddles. After awhile a large lump also appeared on her forehead, so it was decided a visit to a doctor would be a good idea as she was still hysterical... that means that all three trips to Merimbula have resulted in a visit to the doctors! To cut a long story short, the doctor wanted Gemma at Pambula Hospital for observation for a couple of hours... this turned into an afternoon there, with observation of her head injury and xray of her thumb. She was sent home before dinner, with concussion and a badly bruised thumb.
While the girls were at the hospital, the boys spent some time at the beach.
The following morning, (this morning) all was well and Gemma's head lump had gone down a lot. Her thumb is still sore but she seemed happy so we returned to Magic Mountain with our free pass. We spent a number of hours there, again losing count of the number of times we went on the Toboggan run. Although Ethan had to go on with one of us, he controlled the 'brake lever' and loved to go very fast, giggling and whooping as we went! We also went on the Grand Prix cars again and the Magic Carpet Slide. The dinosaurs in Triassic Park were kind of large, but did not excite the kids too much - they wanted to return to the carpet slide or toboggan!
We spent the afternoon at the apartment relaxing, beginning the back up for tomorrows trip back home. Another holiday draws to an end.
See you next time!
Magic Mountain is an amusement park in the bush on a 'mountain' overlooking Merimbula and the waterfront. It cost us a whopping $127 for unlimited ride passes! We got there right on opening time and there were few people around. We went first to the Toboggan ride - a 600 metre toboggan ride down the mountain side in a little toboggan along a stainless steel track. Zac was allowed to go by himself, the others had to ride with us. This turned out to be everyone's favourite ride and we lost count of the number of times we went on it!
Zac apprehensively said he'd go on the Mad Mouse type roller coaster, Ethan was excited about going on it but was a matter of centimetres below the minimum height and they wouldn't let him. Zac was brave, he said he did enjoy the ride but once was enough!
The Grand Prix race track was fun too, the kids taking it in turns to ride along with us.
When going to get golf putters and balls for a round of mini-golf, Gemma was mucking around and somehow fell. She screamed heaps and it appeared she'd hurt her thumb and / or hand. The boys went off and began mini golf while she had some mummy cuddles. After awhile a large lump also appeared on her forehead, so it was decided a visit to a doctor would be a good idea as she was still hysterical... that means that all three trips to Merimbula have resulted in a visit to the doctors! To cut a long story short, the doctor wanted Gemma at Pambula Hospital for observation for a couple of hours... this turned into an afternoon there, with observation of her head injury and xray of her thumb. She was sent home before dinner, with concussion and a badly bruised thumb.
The manager of Magic Mountain was very good about this - not that it was in anyway there fault, but she gave us a family free pass to return again this week!
While the girls were at the hospital, the boys spent some time at the beach.
The following morning, (this morning) all was well and Gemma's head lump had gone down a lot. Her thumb is still sore but she seemed happy so we returned to Magic Mountain with our free pass. We spent a number of hours there, again losing count of the number of times we went on the Toboggan run. Although Ethan had to go on with one of us, he controlled the 'brake lever' and loved to go very fast, giggling and whooping as we went! We also went on the Grand Prix cars again and the Magic Carpet Slide. The dinosaurs in Triassic Park were kind of large, but did not excite the kids too much - they wanted to return to the carpet slide or toboggan!
We spent the afternoon at the apartment relaxing, beginning the back up for tomorrows trip back home. Another holiday draws to an end.
See you next time!
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