Hi-5

On Saturday Trelise and I got ready left Wayne with the babies and caught the bus into town to see Hi-5. It was my first experience with kiddie theatre and was a bit of an eye opener for me!

As we entered the Michael Fowler Centre there were a huge amount of desperate parents handing over wads (and I mean wads) of cash for Hi 5 merchandise. Realising that my child also needed a wand I joined the mass. We waited for a good 15 minutes to be served (seriously!) my jaw was just dropping at the amount of money being handed over. I am pleased that we purchased the wand as it proved very handy later on.

We went to our seats waving our wand and very excited to find that premium seating at this venue does not mean you necessarily get a full view of the stage. We were so far over that from our seats we could only see half the stage - you could say I was cross! Thankfully I remembered that a friend had been in previous years and had complained to me that children were allowed to come up the front thereby blocking her view - so I made sure that we were all packed up to go and as soon as the show started Trelise and I ran up the front to get a prime position in front of the stage. So that disaster was adverted!

The show started and Trelise was very excited and seemed to enjoy the show alot. Because we were not in our seats and Trelise was wandering around in front of the stage getting lost was a bit of a problem. Lucky for the wand! I used it as a beacon to wave the big girl back to me when I saw her looking around worried! Right at the end she dropped the wand, it was on the ground for about 30 seconds and another woman picked it up to steal it - I'm not kidding! My forward child storms up to the woman and grabs it out of her hand! She stuttered to me I was going to hand it in at the office - as if I would believe that!

I'm not so keen on the new Hi 5 team member Steve however sort of reminded me of a drunken aussie on the pull! Maybe I had a soft spot for Tim however!