The Woodchopping World Championships, a Polo Game, and The Three Sisters

On Good Friday we took the train to Sydney Olympic Park where the Sydney Royal Easter Show was on. But folks, don't be fooled by the name Easter Show because the event is not only one big show. The Royal Easter Show runs for two weeks and you can walk around in a huge area all day long and watch everything from Rodeo contests, Polo games, dog shows, and lets not forget the Bananas in Pajamas dancing show. One show we found very interesting on Friday was the Woodchopping World Championships. Who even knew that this is a very serious sport? And talking about sports, we also watched our very first Polo match and it was really good. Nevertheless, although the Sydney Royal Easter show is a mecca for children there are heaps of wine tastings. In other words there are plenty of things to do  also for oldies like us.

                         Barry and me enjoying a Waffel at the Easter Show

The next trip we had planned this Easter was the Blue Mountain trip with Kenneth and Tegen. We really looked forward to this trip as neither Lars or I had been there before, and it would be our very first trip out of the city since we arrived. 

If the traffic is ok it takes approximately 1,5 hours to drive from Sydney to the Blue Mountains and the destination is perfect for a day trip. 

If you are wondering why they call it the Blue Mountains it is because the mountains is densely populated by oil bearing Eucalyptus trees. Thus, the atmosphere surrounding the mountains is filled with finely dispersed droplets of oil, which, in combination with dust particles and water vapour, scatter short-wave length rays of light which are predominantly blue in color. 

Although the weather was a bit too warm and clear to see the full blue effect, the blue color did appear more and more as we got closer to the afternoon. One of the major tourist attractions in the Blue Mountains are the Three Sisters. The sisters are respectively 922,918 and 906 meters tall and they are over 3000 feet above sea level. It is also possible to walk all the way out to them and thus see them up close.

         Lars and Cecilie with the Three Sisters in the background

Steps,steps, and more steps

It was just such a beautiful day for us and we loved hiking in the mountains. I think we hiked for at least 2 hours. Im actually curious about how many steps we walked up that day, it had to be thousands. On the way we passed beautiful waterfalls, mysterious caves and plenty of spiders.

We hope you all had a great Easter and that you did not over feed yourselves on Easter Eggs and Kvikk Lunsj. Next week we will update you on how my job is developing and on how things are going with Lars, working on his 3000 word essay.

Have a fantastic week everyone.

Big hug from Lars and Cecilie