Prize Cock

Easter is a big holiday here.  It’s like as big as Christmas.  Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday are all national holidays. That’s right, Easter is so big here that they have to have it on both Sunday AND Monday.  The Sydney Royal Easter Show is an integral part of the celebration.  The Easter Show is basically, well- it’s basically a state fair.  Walking around here you might momentarily get confused and think you are in Arkansas or Texas or Kansas or one of the other crappy states.  Living in Seattle, I went the Puyullup Fair down in the redneck suburbs of Tacoma one year.  Walking into the Royal Sydney Easter Show gave me flashbacks of that experience.  Here is a brief photo album of the day:

As the title says, this is the Prize Cock.  Actually, I don’t know if this particular cock won a prize, but it’s the only cock that we got a picture of.

Robosaurus: 1, Ford Taurus: 0.  Yep, this is a giant robotic dinosaur completely destroying a car.  I don’t actually think it was a Ford Taurus, but Taurus rhymes with Robosaurus so I’m going to pretend that it was.

OMG ALPACAS!

What a better way to celebrate Passover than by watching the most kosher of animals - the pig - racing and then diving into a little pool.  Wow.  The sad part is that we missed one show because it was full, so we got to the next one nearly an hour early to make sure we got seats.  People must really love bacon.  Bacon eaters will all burn.

Oh yeah - I've got video!

What crazy craze will we crazy Americans craze about next?!?!?

AFLAC WINS!!!