Friday, March 21, 2008

... A Veritable Smorgasboard* ...

Woohoo!!! Our ears are still ringing and throats scratchy from whooping it up all day at the Royal Easter Show. The Olympic complex was very impressive, and handled the crowd of 150,000 with ease. Thanks to our Rotary hosts, we enjoyed the privileges of the Members Stand, which was most considerately situated ringside to all the EQUINE events. Does it get any better? Cotton candy is called fairy floss here, and we had corn dogs and pizza and ice cream and fish n chips, and sampled all manner of offerings in the food dome. No sign of fried dough anywhere, alas, but I'll get my fix in the fall : )

The day was overcast and cool = perfect for watching motocross and the Toyota Hilux team (SKS, you would have looooved it); showjumping, polo, campdrafting (a rather mysterious event), motocross again, and finally, at 9pm, the dairy famers fireworks finale, during which they played that song "I Come From a Land Down Under". There's a moment to remember...

In between all that, we walked around the exhibition halls and barns; I fell in love with a horse named Mr. Darcy, found a bee-yoo-tee-ful saddle for Fredd (ha!) and watched a 9 year-old girl on the perfect-sized pony have a dressage lesson (she was so good! nice team) and, of course, people watched...

Well, this is not a very coherent posting, but I guess it'll have to do ... 12 hours from now we'll be white water rafting, so some sleep would be good ...



* A gold star to anyone who knows where that line is from ... Mom, I know you know; saw some of your old bovine pals today : )

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