Sydney Royal Easter Show, April 10, 2004

I'm petting a baby pig.

The baby duck pond had this funny little ramp with food at the top. The ducks would waddle up there, overbalance, and end up sliding down into the water. It was really cute.

This sign identifies the two alpacas in the pen as Lady Galadriel and Lady Arwen. That cracked us up.

Every time I see a llama I immediately think of my favorite Far Side cartoon of "Llamas at Home": "Llook out, Llarry! It's the llandllord!" Heh.

Snookums pets a cow.

We didn't bother riding any of the carnival rides, but this one made me laugh. Can you say "copyright violation"?

I was pleased to note that the Royal Easter Show went with a traditional giant slide instead of the ultra-tacky Titanic Super Slide. Score one for the Aussies.

Apparently one of the hottest selling Show Bags of the year was the "Mary-Kate and Ashley Bag". It had, like, a purse and a camera and some lip gloss in it. Here they are posing with their little-known older sister, Amy.

Snookums stands in front of one of the many Show Bag vendors. I told you it was madness.

That's it! We were pretty much faired-out by that point so we headed home. I was sad to have missed the Poultry Washing demonstration and the Pig Races, but there's always next year...