I have a boy who is obsessed with rocks. So when he saw a sign on the road that say there's a gem show, he got very excited. I remembered my reply to him was that is only a show for old people. Anyways he was pretty ill that weekend, and I wanted to cheer him up so brought him to the show. It was an impressive show. There were people coming from South Island and Whanganui to be part of the exhibitor.
The rocks/gem were beautifully set up in the special casing, and people could look and admire them.
You could see Noel even brought his own rock kit with him. He thought it was going to be a meeting and people would talk about their rocks.
This is a special dark room. And the rocks were very colourful under the special lighting.
These were rocks/gems available for sale from sellers coming from all over the place. I later found out this event happens every two years.
This is a carver doing his special task of carving the stone.
The boys went for their lucky dip. They were not very excited when they found out it was just magnets.
The kind man in checkered shirts give free rocks to kids from his collection.
I was wrong. There were many children attending the show. This was a section just for them, finding treasure in a big block of ice.
Abel was super proud with his little treasure. His fingers were icy cold after that.
Polished rocks in the shape of an egg
The hall was filled with people from all ages.
No, I did not get these Amethysts geodes for them. They were like $1,500 each.
Abel wasted no time in displaying his rocks on his shelf. He was very daring to ask for prices from the seller. Rocks start at 20c a piece. But the boys had their eyes on more expensive stuffs. Luckily, I capped their budget at $3 max or I could go to $5 if its very very very special and BIG (*evil grin) because Abel laid his eyes on a tiny piece of rock which was $20!!
Noels' collection.
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