A day at the C.N.E.

So our trip to the C.N.E. today was a success. The weather cooperated, no rain for a change and not overly crowded. My friend Sue punked out on us and cancelled at the last moment this morning so we went for breakfast at the coras restaurant and then headed down to the C.N.E.

A word about breakfast first...is it just me or are these types of places grossly overpriced?? I ended up having to pay almost 4 dollars out of my pocket cos the gift card was only for 20 and it came to 23.75. That seems rather high for breakfast! As I can't eat eggs, I ordered a bagel with chedder cheese, a side order of bacon and a miniature fruit cup that came with 1 strawberry, 1 slice of orange, 1 slice of cantalope, and 1 slice of kiwi. Hubby ordered the regular breakfast and got 2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon, 2 miniature sausages, a small scoop of homefries and toast...and this costs 23.75?? Unbelieveable! When we were first married , that would be 1980 , on Sunday mornings we would go grocery shopping and on the way would stop at a local restaurant for breakfast and got the same thing he ordered today for 2.99 each!!! Guess I don't get out much huh?

Anyhoo, onward, we got to the EX just after 10 this morn and this is when it's the best, early in the day is the best time to go. We got to look up close at all kinds of stuff without havin to elbow people out of the way. We wandered for hours lookin at all the exhibits, the history of the toilet, the anne of green gables exhibit, old fashioned dollhouses, stoves and sewing machines from the 30's, watched some cool demostrations and hubby was thrilled to discover dvd's priced at 5 for 20 bucks with the new Lost in Space movie thrown in for free when ya bought 5. He got me a Ron White comedy dvd and I bought a Chris Rock comedy dvd.

We saw a cool ventriliquist who had been on America's You Got Talent and he was really good and entertaining. After that we hunted the kids down so hubby could bum some tylenol from J as the ventriliquist show was outside under the blazing sun and we were sitting near the speakers and he had a brutal headache. I have to say , he did very well considering he usually bitches and moans about 2 hours in but we lasted 6 1/2 hours before we both decided to call it a day.

Before we left we had to visit a cool old cabin thats been around since 1794, complete with period pieces of every day useful items inside and women dressed in period clothing spinning wool outside the cabin. Was very cool indeed.

The Ex, while changed from when i was a kid, is still the grand ole lady by the lake. There seems to be a lot of games that noone was playing much, even the bingo hall usually packed, had hardly anyone sitting to play. Could be the prices they ask for games, could be cos people dont trust that theyre not rigged, not really sure why.

We sat for a bit and listened to the group The Stampeders warm up. Wish we'd gone down Sat night as Kim Mitchell was playin at the bandshell, which is free with admission but after a day of babysitting and going swimming twice yesterday with my grandson, we were exhausted. Stampeders weren't gonna be on stage til 8 tonite and 10 am til 10 pm would be too much of a long day for us as we are both on days tomorrow and where did the weekend go?? Was a good one but far too short!

Well, I'm pooped and have dishes to do that are patiently waiting for me soaking while I write this post..better get to them...think its gonna be an early night.

Til next time,

Cathy