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Sunday arvo, Nat and Andrew picked me up and we toddled off to the Canberra Show. I've never been before (and in fact haven't been to the Sydney Easter Show since it was last at Paddington in 1997).
Had a good time just wandering around and looking at things. Barely spent any money. I did buy five daffodil bulbs. And a Moove (the mobile Moove man kinda convinced me). And a hot dog and fairy floss for dinner. Quite annoyed that you can't buy fresh fairy floss anymore, you have to buy it in a plastic bag :(
Took 383 photos.. here's just a few of them :)
Ferris Wheel and tower from the car park. The walk back to the car felt like a lot lot longer than the walk from the car!
Working steam engine
These guys look a bit like our next door neighbour's goat
Goat closeup
Goats have really freaky eyes..!
Sheepdog goat!
Donkey trial
Alpaca
Ducklings!
This was one massive pig! The area smelt like pork (before roasting) .. can't imagine why!
Bubbles!!
Orange juice stand (this girl had her butt out whenever we went past)
Wall of bubble machines
Kazza the dwarf...
Mobile Moove man (Nat getting a drink)
Catching a wave
Ferris Wheel (would have been nice to go up - maybe next time)
Rides
Kitty with a moustache. We were trying to take pictures through the bars and the dude came along and opened the cage for us :)
I so want one of these! This thing (apart from the way cool little house around it) has a tv and dvd/cd player built in!! Andrew said all we need is water-proof wii-motes for spa-wii-ing :)
I always like the cake decorating. This ship was my favorite
Icing flowers are amazing!
This was straight out of the Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake book..! Lame!! Especially since it won a prize
Flowers
Flowers
Woolworths fruit/veggie display
Onions in the veggie display
Chocolate fountain
Back to the pigs. Noticed this time that all the piglets' tails were docked :(
Camel race
They race to a bucket of food at the end of the track
This kid looked as if she owned the place. She was in everyone's way of the view, so we couldn't help but laugh when she later fell off trying to get on or off.
They were running about 45 minutes late and we had to go, but the Hiluxes started up as we were half way round the track)
Flying Hilux!
Pictures from the zoo trip.
I think this is a Sumatran Tiger
Lions
Stu got some cool pics of the Red Pandas, I should upload one of his..
This Red Browed Firetail was having a bath in the Red Panda enclosure
The servals were very cool
The Pygmy Marmosets were so cute
Some sort of Iguana..
Meerkat!
Didn't catch the name of this thing..
I think this is a Golden Lion Tamarin (I could be wrong)
Too many people around to get any closer to these guys
Male European Fallow Deer
European Fallow Deer and fawn
Look at the tongue!
Here's a couple of photos that have been sitting in my "to blog" folder..
A moth..
Sunbeams..
Not a photo, but proof that the previous owners of this place must have watered their garden - a lot..
Here's a couple of cool Christmas presents I got..
A Spa Bar!!! Have wanted something like this since we got the pool - way cool!!
A Princess Peach Racer!! (I always race with Peach, and using this cart too :) )
And some cool bars of chocolate we saw in the shops today..
OK that's not really the sound they make.. it's a lot more squawky.. but the little chicklets they're trying to fend people off from are pretty cute :)
Was actually going to post this in my last post, until I got the anal probing email from ThinkGeek and that made me explode. Still quite pissed off with them.
But anyways. This was the sky this evening. Pretty, huh?
So Saturday we decided to go to Sydney Wildlife World. It was actually pretty decent. Lots of Australian wildlife, and some interesting keeper talks. I took several hundred photos. Oops. :)
So last weekend (a week ago), Pirjo and Jarmo came to stay with us. Saturday evening was a very pleasant evening of wine, cheese, lamb roast and chatting.
Sunday we decided to go to Tidbinbilla, as they were interested in seeing some kangaroos up close. So off we went.
The funniest thing I didn't get a photo of was an emu being chased by an angry masked lapwing plover :)
Welcome Swallows
Various emus
Various kangaroos
A magpie
Through a gate
Some sort of ant
And then we left. Could have spent longer there, but they needed to drive 450km. So just had lunch in Belconnen and off they went.
Some carrots Stu grew in the garden

And how they looked when he cooked them
Fresias in the front yard
Sunrise one morning last week
Another day, another sunrise
Completed Fish & Chips jigsaw - evil!
Mr Fixit! Me little brother stayed last night and fixed a bunch of things around the house. Have I ever mentioned he rocks? :)
So last night we met up with Nat and Andrew and went to Floriade Nightfest.
I've never been before so I didn't know what to expect. I imagined more of a light show, with flowers being light up by coloured lights or fairy lights or something. So in that sense I was a little disappointed, as there wasn't really much of that. But there were some pretty things and we ended up staying til after 10pm.
Of course the first problem was getting in. The tickets said 6:30pm, so that's when we arrived. As did everyone else who had a ticket. So all these people started crowding around and it was all a bit unorganised cause people didn't know if there were two different queues for people with or without tickets or what. Took about twenty minutes to get through the gates. I think if we were going to do it again we'd turn up at 7pm and be done with it. But don't really think it was worth the $20 to do it again.
More photos after the jump...
Continue reading Nightfest in Pictures.
If anyone's interested I've put photos up for Day 4 of our Japan trip.