So. Tired

[przed]

It's been a whirlwind weekend.

We swept up to my mom's straight after work on Friday, spent Saturday doing assorted errands for my mom (the Sweetie and Ros put in valiant effort raking my mom's rather large yard; I did some grocery shopping and topped up the fluids in her car) and assorted shopping for ourselves (the Sweetie found much-needed winter boots and a jacket for himself, I found awesome if expensive gloves for myself that I'd better not lose).

Then this morning it was up at six, drive home, and then I took Ros straight to the Royal Winter Fair. (The Sweetie hates the fair and did nothing but bitch about it the one time he came with us, so he is banned from attending until further notice.)

It was an awesome day, with much feeding of farm animals, watching of horses, and eating of awesome if quesitonable foods. (I wait each year for the baked apple dumplings with ice cream and the potato rosti.) Ros was a trooper, which is awesome considering we were there from 1:30 to 7:30. But she completely passed out five seconds after I got the car started. (She was all "Mommy! I'm going to sing along with Take That! ::starts singing Shine:: ::passes out:: Zzzzzzzzz.)

I got some great photographic evidence, which I shall share before I pass out myself.

In past years, Ros loved the petting zoo, but she always talked me into feeding the animals for her. This year, she was totally into feeding them herself. (She would have blown all our money on animal food if I'd let her.)


Ros sitting on the fake horse in the kids' equestrian safety exhibit. Considering there is no way we could afford to have her ride, I shouldn't be encouraging her love of horses, but I can't help myself. (I was a horse-mad kid myself, so I sympathize.)


Ros in jockey gear.

Comments

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I'm pretty sure that's a lot more than it would cost here.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it wouldn't be nearly so bad if we weren't smack in the middle of the city. I'm tempted to look at some of the horse farms and stables outside the city, but they're all at least an hour's drive away, and that's not on either.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Unless the place has a lot of land, the horses in city stables tend to lead battery-hen lives, so it's probably better to support one outside the city anyway. Anywhere I'd recommend around the city I'm closest to would be at least an hour out of town, too.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Well, the one city-run stable in Toronto (10 minutes from our house) is smack in the middle of one of our big parks. The horses have plenty of room there, so it's not a bad situation for them. But expensive for the people. ;-)