As they have every year since 1876 - give or take a Spanish flu outbreak and World War II cancellation - Queenslanders came in their tens of thousands to celebrate all things country and carnival - and of course, strawberry sundaes - to the Royal Exhibition Showgrounds for the biggest party of the year.
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The 2016 Royal Queensland Show - known as the Ekka to anyone north of the border - celebrated its first weekend with sunshine, sundaes and the famous Brisbane August westerlies.
At least 30,000 people went through the gates on Friday, with that number to be topped and then some by the weekend visitors, hoping to get in some food on a stick, baby animal encounter and an ice-cream or three before the traditional People's Day holiday on Wednesday.
Georgia Donaldson, 3½, has been coming almost as long as she's been alive.
While the Toowoomba resident ran around baby sheep and goats her mother, Jo, welcomed the addition of a hotel to the Ekka grounds, part of a wider permanent development started under the Newman government.
"Now they have the motel here, it makes it so much easier," Mrs Donaldson said.
"We were able to take her for a nap yesterday and then go into the night."
Austin Paradis couldn't think of anywhere else he wanted to spend his ninth birthday, while a day at the show was an early birthday present for Caitlin Williams, 8, who was enjoying one of the famous Ekka Strawberry Sundaes for only the second time, her family only having moved back to Brisbane from New Zealand in the past couple of years.
"There is a lot more here," mother Melita Williams said.
"A lot more nice, lovely food. But the ice-creams stay the same. They'll never change."