We happened to be in Sydney during the Royal Easter Show which is a giant state fair for New South Wales. Since we love the Big E we had to check it out and a prepurchased ticket gives you free public transportation there from the center of Sydney which is a sweet deal. It didn't disappoint.
Along with the booths of interesting as seen on TV type products that sound cool, but that you probably don't actually need, most booths had something called a showbag. It's basically a bag specially put together for the fair full of that booth's products. There is also a showbag hall where you can buy bags of a specific candy or toy or sports team. I feel like each state at the Big E could have a showbag and they would probably do well.
There are competitions for just about everything imaginable. Above are hats and quilling, and there are competitions for lots (heaps if you will) of different animals. We saw rabbits and goats being judged the day we were there. That's just the tip of the iceberg as there are competitions for everything from bookbinding to flowers to frogs & reptiles and rats & mice.
Any good fair needs to have some delicious food. While there weren't the number of deep fried options we are accustomed to in the US, we did get to eat some tasty traditional Australian meat pies.
There are so many animals at the show to see. This is a goose, but they also had every farm animal you could think of. My favorite were all the crazy breeds of chickens. Some chickens look really weird.
Of course you can also feed the goats and sheep. This goat got a little excited.
The most famous event at the show, however, is the woodchopping and sawing competition. It is an international competition, but woodchopping and sawing as a sport was started in Australia so they (and New Zealand) are the best at it. It's all a lot of fun to watch, but the most awesome competition was the Australia vs. New Zealand relay. Australia was a bit ahead for most of it but the last New Zealand competitor absolutely demolished his log and the Kiwis took the narrow victory. It was really exciting. Oddly enough this was also the only competition we saw in Australia that started with the national anthem.
We finished our day with a motorcross show and a pretty impressive fireworks display in the main stadium of the fair. All in all, we ended up spending about 9 hours (way longer than we figured we would) at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and had a great time.
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