Cairns Show 

All the usual fun of a country show, it's year since I have been to one. But last week for three days the show was in town and off we went on Show Day

There were all the usual things -  (the only thing missing was the boxing tent)

Show bags by the dozen, but these days all produced by the one company and selling for big dollars. Whatever happened to the "sample bags" that used to display products?

In the arenas there was dressage events, woodchopping, the grand parade of all the prize winning animals and lots of other great events,

 and of course fast food by the truckload and those rides that I can't even watch any more. They are becoming more and more scarey, or maybe I am just getting older

This one looked like fun, they put the kids in the deflated ball then pump it up around them before sealing it and putting them onto a small pond of water. The kids were having a ball - literally.

 We went to see the cakes and crafts, the cattle and the dogs. I nearly lost Lynn in the dogs as there were several black spaniels - this one was named Thomas. Lynn got very homesick, for a minute.

But we managed to cure that with her very first meat pie - she bought another the very next day!