OUT OF THE BOX

We have been absolutely slammed this week, primarily because in addition to a generally busy week, QPAC is putting on the children's Out of the Box festival again.  SO MUCH bread goes into those delicious lunch boxes and cute little burgers!  (In fact, our Monday night for Tuesday was our busiest night to date - by A LOT!)

This is Justice's last year (officially its an under 8's festival) so we wanted to be sure and get along and have a look.  Because of my exam schedule, and the expected weekend crowds, we opted to skip school Friday in order to head into the city.

I found that the paid workshops and performances were a bit more pricey than past years, I don't know if this was my interpretation based on the budget, but we signed up for the Left Side, Right Side - Flip Side event primarily because only kids had to pay for tickets.  I was shockingly uninformed about what to expect (there was an informative blurb, but I hadn't read it when I booked the ticket). 

The performance was fantastic - young circus performers in a dream sequence.  And even better, this performance was followed by all the kids attending seperating into groups and round robinning through a series of intsructional workshops taught by the same young performers.  In the end, Justice got to do the things he saw in the performance and it seemed like he had a ball!

 In case you had any doubt, lunch was delicious!  We sat near the under age stage and saw the end of a comedy routine involving a pink frocked water ski team and the beginning of a magic show...

All in all, we were very happy with our choice of performance and very impressed with the entire Out of the Box festival.  There were heaps of free activities outside and tons of delicious food on offer.  We had a mini burger with chips and salad for FOUR BUCKS!  how cool is that?! 

AND it was absolutely DELICIOUS!

It was our last official visit to an OOTB festival, but it was a treat.  We're ending on a high...

Which might be why I let myself be talked into doing the ferris wheel again, even though I am a giant wuss and really struggled with the height the first go around...