This is only our 3rd time to attend the Royal Easter Show. The first was in Moore Park, shortly after we settled in Sydney. Then again when the show was first moved to the Olympic Park. The annual Sydney Royal Easter Show, which runs for two-weeks over Easter, is currently the largest event in Australia and sixth in the world.
We were playing hosts to Jeanne’s high school classmate – Annie and husband Johnny. They are in Sydney on a business trip and are flying home the next day (Easter Saturday). The challenge is to find a place to go. Most restaurants and usual tourist spots are closed on a Good Friday. The Easter Show was a perfect choice, except that it was raining and had dampen some of the activities. Nevertheless, Jeanne and Annie seem to have made the most of it, frantically catching up in between taking photos on the various displays.
We had pizza for lunch and managed to secure seats around a wobbly table that we shared with another Chinese family-of-4. It was a bit embarrassing but the couple were gracious. I also enjoyed the light conversation with Johnny. As we wondered inside the Fresh Food Exhibit, I took some apples off the fruit landscape and had everyone sample the produce (just kidding).
We didn’t get to see much of the fair and missed the usual animal show and the wood chipping demo, but we hope Annie and Johnny had some fun. Here’s a few selected photos of the day.
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| Rommel, Jeanne & Annie at the Central Train Station | Jeanne, Annie & Johnny at the entrance of the Easter Show | Annie admiring a truck of floral arrangements |
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| Jeanne meets a hard working Pinoy at the show. | The landscape at the background is made up of fresh fruits and vegies. | At the fair! |
The complete set of photos taken that day is in our Flickr Account.
Maybe it is too late to say but still i want to extend to greet you and all of your family a “Happy Easter!!!”, seems like both Australia and Philippines has a common weather condition. It was raining for almost a day this past holy week, particular here in Davao. But still, rain showers doesn’t stop the daily activity of people here in their holy week celebration.
Seems like you have a wonderful Easter celebration with you and your family and friends as what you have posted. Nice pictures and beautiful backgrounds. 😉
We have are own version here celebrating the holy week and Easter. I’ve joined the procession of the way of the cross last Friday, It was started 4 in the morning and walked for more or less 5 Kilometers,despite the rain we manage to walked to finished the procession. It was a very long walked and finished almost 4 hours. I felt a terrible pain on my feet after that…hahhahahah. Last Easter Sunday, there is a mass at dawn, about 4:30 . There is what we call here “Salubong”(in tagalog) or “Sugat”(in bisaya). There are “angels” played by the little girls who remove the lambong (veil of mourning) of the Blessed Mother shortly after processions at Easter dawn, signifying the resurrection of Jesus. There’s a presentation of the selected youth portraying the scene of the ladies going to Jesus tomb and so on while “angels” singing. It is a great experienced for once in a year. Whatever we celebrate it is just its one common in particular…”The God has risen!”… bow.
Thanks Sakura and I hope you had a Happy Easter as well – despite having a self-imposed penitence. I’m glad that St. Paul had a vivid imagination on how the events of Holy Week took place, otherwise the whole Christiandom will not have such a colourful way of commemorating these events. 😉
Yes, it is a great and happy Easter. We do the Easter Bunny Egg Hunting…full of fun and enjoyment!…Thank St. Paul for having that kind of events…toinks! 😉
LOL – Nice come back Sakura 🙂 Well done 🙂
Bwahahhahhahha, here we go again…the limit on commenting! well done to me… 🙂 🙂 🙂