Sydney Royal Easter Show, April 10, 2004

Like I said, the Show was held out at the Olympic grounds in Homebush. It was a beautiful location. I don't know if this sculpture was placed there for the Show or if it stands there year-round, but I liked it.

As you might expect, Amy and I had a lot of fun talking to the old spinning ladies.

Sheep! I'd never seen real live sheep up close before. They were much bigger than I imagined.

There were sheap shearing demonstrations going on so they had a big pen full of both wooly and shorn sheep. The shaved ones actually looked kinda gross, with lots of little bloody nicks from the clippers.

Didn't stop me from petting one though...

Lesson #47 of the Day: Sheep have huge testicles. HUGE!

Sheap shearing demonstration. That's actually a chick doing it on the right! She using a big set of clippers (like the Snook uses to cut his hair), while the guy in the middle is doing it old-school with a mega pair of scissors.

He really is a good sport, you know.

Confession: The Poultry House was my idea of HELL. Hundreds of cages full of chickens, ducks, geese, and pigeons, all squacking and crowing and screeching continuously. It reeked of chook poo. I did like this nice big fellow, who obligingly stretched up tall for me to take his picture. I didn't realize that this was in preparation for an ear-splitting COCKADOODLE-DOO! I jumped about three feet.