Moomba for Labour Day

Moomba is Melbourne's Labour Day weekend festival. All weekend there is music from local and national groups and personalities, amusement rides and games, water ski competitions, festival foods, fun workshops, fireworks, the famous Birdman Rally, and the crux of the show: the parade. Music, fun and games lined both sides of the Yarra River giving plenty of amusement.

I went over on Saturday evening only to realize I'd missed the World Record attempt at the largest Bollywood lesson. Bummer. I did go on the Sea Circus funhouse twice. Not a bad tradeoff. Since I was keeping Simon and his youngest company, we focused on rides, playing games, and eating "chippies". That's what this festival is designed for so it made it easy to get into the spirit.

The fireworks were pretty impressive. Who can say no to musically-synced fireballs? Except the seven year old, of course, who only wanted to get back to the rides.

Melbourne's Yarra River full of Moomba Festival activities.