The Royal Easter Show opens here in Sydney today, something we've been looking forward to if for no other reason than we get to see retired greyhounds! We set out this morning after a breakfast on the run to master the train system in Sydney to get ourselves to Homebush where the show is being held. What we found was huge, on the scale of state fair.
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (36 KB) Breakfast
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (44 KB) On the way from breakfast - Paddy's market is in here. Have to come back here tomorrow
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (20 KB) What clouds!
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (50 KB) Olympic Park approaching the Easter Show
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (34 KB) Approaching the Easter Show gate
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (22 KB) Tom and a pig on a pole outside the show's entryway
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (22 KB) Pig(?) on a pole moons the world
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (57 KB) A fountain in Olympic Park
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The Greyhound Adoption Programme of New South Wales (GAP for short) has a booth here for the duration of the show. We dedicate this page to the dogs whose ears we scritched today: to Josh, to Lilly, to Amber, to Nikki, to Katie, to Pipi, and to Sam the poodle. We also dedicate this to the wonderful volunteers of GAP of NSW who allowed us to get to meet their dogs. |
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (33 KB) This handsome boy is Josh, a cancer survivor
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (43 KB) This is Lilly. That's a beautiful girl
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (39 KB) The beauteous fawn is Amber. The blueteous girl is Nikki. and of course there is Lilly.
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (46 KB) Josh, Nikki and Lilly
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (39 KB) Josh, Nikki, Amber and Lilly
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (39 KB) Look at me!
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (43 KB) Stavros has fallen in love with Nikki
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (42 KB) Nikki loves it. Nikki and her family lost her heart-daddy a short time ago and she misses him
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (39 KB) I'm a good girl!
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (41 KB) No! don't stop, don't go yet!
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (34 KB) Nikki looks on
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (28 KB) Pipi and Sam the poodle
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (44 KB) Pipi has that beautiful white mask of the seniors. We miss our double-digit girls so much
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We miss our sweet brindle girl "Lady" Knight, our "Empress of all that she surveys" Kimba, our dashing black tuxedo-boy SurfRider, and our precious red brindle girl Frenchie of the most tender kisses. (We miss Missy too but we won't find ANY of her breed here at all). |
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (20 KB) Grey skies over Olympic Park as we set out to leave
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (22 KB) There are actually people suspended in that bouncing globe between the poles!
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (51 KB) A parting look back
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (48 KB) Er Tom, I've seen this before...
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Friday, 11 April 2003 - (33 KB) Goodbye Olympic Park
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With dragging heels we left our new greyt friends and take the train back to downtown Sydney. Stavros insisted on dinner at a pseudo-chic restaurant by the hotel by the name of Macchiato, where he wanted the Atlantic pizza. Uninspired fare that was. There was a very pleasant singer singing old jazz standbys there, but... For g*dsakes the phrase "x, y, and ZEE of it" is what rhymes with "the mystery of it." NOT "x, y and ZED of it.!" That rhymes with "the Mister ED of it." |
