Okay, time for the animal show. A bunch of pictures, for your hopeful enjoyment.

Starting off with Mads of course. The star of the show. At least according to himself.

The boy on the right is Santana, who often shows up to help with feeding.

Boys being brave with Mads. The girl who presented him was quite brave actually. As I told, I had to help her a bit with getting him out of the fold. But other than that she didn’t seem to be afraid of him at all.

A girl showing off her turtle. What a cute little thing. It was her own turtle, not the playground’s. The kids could show off animals from the playground or bring their own if they wanted to.

Boys will be boys.

And boys always like to borrow the camera and muck about. Taking pictures of themselves.

That’s the judge. He is giving the turtle a closer look.

Can you guess who that is, in the above picture? I’ll give you a hint. It’s Crazy Chicken Guy. If you still can’t guess it then you’re really bad at this game!

The judge and Kurt coming over to inspect Mads.

The girl had to walk Mads around in a circle. As you can tell, Mads had other plans.

She did manage to get him to walk around in the circle though. And then the judge said “Do you think he wants to go back to the other goats now?” and the girl said yes. And the judge said “well, you better take him back then”. As you can tell by the picture, she didn’t really get to take him back. It was as if Mads thought “okay I have paraded around in a circle in front of all these people, enough is enough. I’m done”. And then he dragged the girl off the field and right back to the goat fold.

Magnethe and Vanilje did not participate in the show this year. But Mads did uphold the goat honour by winning a gold medal. Actually, I think the medal was more awarded for all energy the girl spent trying to get Mads to comply with her orders. But don’t tell Mads that! I’m sure his ego has expanded a size or two because of the glory and admiration.

The lambs didn’t participate in the show part itself, and neither did the piglets. There were less “big” animals this year, but more bunnies and chickens. Less people than previous years too, the threat of rain probably kept a lot of people away. It did rain a little but thankfully not enough to spoil anything.

And the biggest animals of them all did walk around the circle as well. The horses. They were a lot more co-operative than Mads!

A boy and his bunny.

A boy in the mud.

That’s bouncy girl, if you remember her. And the guy in the blue is the “other” Lasse. His internship is just about over so I’ll get back to being the only Lasse.

Alice holding a boy.

Can’t you just imagine that kid making crowd noises and pretending to be winning a huge marathon race?

A mother and her cute little girl.

A girl and her bunny.

It looks like he just lost the big game, doesn’t it?

Running out of chairs I guess.

“I think the bunny would go well over here”…

After the judge had seen all the animals he went and deliberated with Kurt. They came back with medals and diplomas. For everyone. This being a kid’s show it was obviously not a serious competition. So there were no losers. But there were gold, silver and bronze medals. And one girl did get a little unhappy that she only got a silver for her bunny. But I think she got over it pretty quickly.

When everybody had gotten their prizes it was time for lemonade and cake. But first a tradition.

Kurt getting Mini and Dotty out on the field. Normally it’s a big mama sheep who is part of this tradition. But since there are no big mamas at the moment, the lambs had to do.

Can you guess what is going on? It’s rather bizarre actually. There’s a circle made of sawdust. And broken into numbered parts. The sheep, or Mini the lamb in this case, is tied down with rope in the center of the circle. She then walks around and eats grass. And you wait until she poops in one of the numbered sections. And the people who have picked the right number wins! Yup. Did that make sense? You have to predict where the sheep will poop. It makes a bit more sense when you have huge mama sheep who is ready to drop a large… deposit. But it worked with a tiny Mini lamb too. And it’s a rather funny scene, a circle of kids cheering and trying to egg on a lamb to poop on the respective numbers they have picked. Wacky.

And Mini was just walking around in the circle like nothing was out of the ordinary, munching on the grass. Not taking notice of anyone or anything. Hehe.

After that was done and people had their cake and lemonade it was time for the “crazy kitchen”. Basically it’s a stall with fine china. Plates and cups, you know. And then a line of kids with tennis balls… and a whole lotta smashing and klangs and kerrbangs.

All in all, good fun. And a proud day for Mads, of course.

If you’re not tired of pictures then there’s a whole album here. 105 shots. I went too far with the touching up. Oh well, what else is new. But I think there’s a lot of cute and sweet stuff. It was a good time.

On a slightly more downer note, I was feeling bad earlier today. As detailed in the livejournal. I am better now though. My mood still swings as the seasons, sometimes.

And now, finish.

Phew. I am still not done with the animal show pictures. After deleting the worst ones and the superfluous ones I was left with 105 shots. Have to resize and touch them up. Then I’ll bung ’em on a CD along with the video files and bring them to the playground. I hope they will be happy with them. And of course I’ll post some of the best here in the blog. I think there are some real sweet shots of the kids. Everyone was enjoying the show.

Right now I am enjoying being home alone. A sweet taste of things to come. Soon this will be everyday life. I am looking greatly forward to it.

Must remember to call the guy who is temporarily living in my appartment and ask if there is a dsl plug in the wall. Hopefully there is, that would make things easier. Must also call the housing organization and ask if they’re going to send me a bill for the downpayment and stuff or if I just have to go to the bank and transfer the money on my own. I still haven’t got the lease contract, I would have thought they would send that out right away. But I might just be HORRIBLY IMPATIENT. Today is 070707. Counting days till 070801.

Went up to see the animals today. Not my turn to feed them, but I was still lucky enough to have Nina come by. I picked her up and sat there holding her, imagining having a kittycat of my own. I’ve been waiting patient. Patiently.

Mads was in a cuddly mood. The entire time I was in the goat pen he was rubbing his head against my leg. Every now and the making little moaning sounds. He can be very sweet. When he’s not being diabolical, of course. A wolf in goat’s clothing.

The lambs had visitors. A little bunny. I don’t think it’s big enough to be able to jump the walls on its own. The only bunny I have seen do that is �sel/Donkey. So someone must have put the bunny in there. A little later on one of the chickens were in there, it jumped in there on its own. It was like a whole little party in the lambs’ place.

I have been dreaming about busses again. Always with the busses. But at least no clowns.

I want to populate my appartment with garden gnomes. And figures like that. At christmas time there were a couple of garden gnome sized figures in Favorit. One was a snowman. And one was a sort of Mrs Santa. I wanted to buy them. Now I wish I had. I must have tacky stuff for my home!

Favorit is closing by the way. Well, it’s not even called Favorit anymore. It’s Aktiv Super. But it’s closing yes. How odd. I have done most of my shopping in that store all my life. The last 25 years or something. Another store will be opening in its place, a Netto. But it’s still odd. There’s a woman who has worked there for as long as I can remember, I heard her say that she won’t be working in the new store. Most of the staff is going away. And it’s oddly coinciding with me moving away from the area.

Not that I will be moving too far away. Want to see where I’m moving? It’s a route from where I live now to where I will be living. The route they suggest is actually completely stupid. Look at that giant detour. But you can see the two places. The black dot in the top rightish corner is where I am now. The red dot is where I will be moving in. And for reference, the playground is just out of the picture on the right. Out of the road called Ryhavevej.

Wait a minute. . That’s the route from the playground, which is now the black dot in the top right corner. Via My current home and then to my future home, still the red dot in the left bottom corner.

Fascinating, don’t you think? So now there’s no reason for you not to stalk me. Well, apart from the pack of goats that protect me, of course. Follow me at your own risk.

PS. Want to see the playground from up high? Goto this map and then click on “luftfoto”. Then click on the red dot to zoom in. That’s as close as you can get. But it’s the playground, it is. You can see the field to the right of the red dot, that’s where the animal show was held. The red dot itself is right on top of the main building. And if you go to the left a bit and down then there’s a whitish building, that’s where the goats live. Iiinteresting!