>>>>>Two outbacks and two Foresters at my work -- if you can fit a sheep inside it then yours is twice the size of the ones here... :o)
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>>>>Back seats always down. Or are you claiming that American sheep are bigger than Welsh ones :=}
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>>>My cousins raised sheep in Wisconsin... :o) I just cannot imagine a full-grown ewe inside of a Subaru!
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>>Mike! See what I said about Americans and packing :)
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>Thats because in the USA they have bigger and better sheep than in the rest of the world :-) (Cue outraged patriots)

Well, we do ;-)

I understand it has since changed but when I spent a few weeks working in New Zealand in the late 1980s there were 3 million people and 75 million sheep. As you might imagine, there were lots of sheep jokes. One of my many pleasant memories of NZ was getting caught in a sheep traffic jam. One wanders out into the road and the others follow like, well, sheep. They seemed oblivious to horns. You just waited until they decided to wander off somewhere else. There are cities and all that but out in the country that was the pace. I liked it a lot.

It's a stunningly beautiful country, with the friendliest people you could ever want to meet. My favorite place of any place I have been, even better than Hawaii or the Rockies, is Milford Sound at the southern tip of the South Island. Fjords, unspoiled spots like you were many centuries or millenia back in time. At least at the time, there were only two ways in: on a bus or on foot. If you ever get a chance to go there, jump at it.

http://www.google.com/images?q=milford+sound&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=A7UQTdXQHoj_nAeIwLjrDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CFUQsAQwBA&biw=1695&bih=1023