Australian Outback Spectacular!!!

First night in Australia, Surfer's Paradise, the most commercial town in Australia, led us to the most commercial activity we could find. The Australian Outback SPECTACULAR!!!

Frankly, I was expecting it to be horrible after all the criticism I read about it online. We arrived, got our "outback hats". Hmmm, pretty nice, made of straw, not the paper hats we were betting on. We even got to be on the red team, much to Guy's joy and happiness. It was red vs. yellow, and we all know we don't wanna be yellow!!!

So we get to our seats, pretty cool, second row and it's stadium style so I won't miss one embarassingly cheesey moment. The waitress comes and offers me wine, beer or lemonade. I took the wine. It was fabulous! I might like this place!

I figured I should drink slowly as I am quite sure you only get one glass for the 70 bucks or so that we spent on each ticket. Salad is served, and it's 5 star quality!! I mentioned to the waitress that Guy is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, and she swiftly snapped up Guy's salad and came back with a nut free, egg free salad. The first one simply might have been contaminated, but she did not want to take a chance. Guy actually even ate some of it.

So the show starts and it's pretty entertaining. There's the fun stuff, like the guy's riding horses standing up, and guys and chicks are racing in various ways and dancing australian country music (believe it or not, it's really good). I was thoroughly enjoying myself and then a guy comes around with MORE WINE. How great is this place???

Excellent steak and sides and Guy's dish again was brought without my asking, and the waitress placed it down and said, Egg and Nut free!!! An allergy mom's Heaven for sure. They DON'T forget, even though there are a thousand customers to serve. They brought him a special dessert as well since we got some Aussie dessert made entirely of eggs and sugar.

And in between those flashy, catchy entertaining moments, the MC guy was telling us stories about Aussie legends: The Man From Snowy River - I thought it was just a movie! It's real!! How they lived in the Outback, the history of their country. It was great. And it was patriotic.

I don't care how tacky commercial is. When you put together a bang up entertaining show like this one and add 3 rounds of drinks and a 5 star meal, you surpass commercial. You are The Bomb. And that is what the Australian Outback Spectacular is. it's The Bomb. And a damn good one at that!