Fall Fair!

Written by Kate. Filed Under Family, friends

As you know last weekend was our fall fair. This year the fair celebrates 151 years, and I’m pretty sure I have not missed one in my 23 years. It’s pretty cool to be able to say that, and most of my family members can say that as well!

Saturday morning I got up early with my friend Stef who was down for the weekend from Guelph. We headed to the fair to dust cases, so that they would be nice and shiny for people all through the weekend. It was really foggy in the morning so it made for some really neat pictures, much different colours then you normally see at the fair!

Foggy morning view

The sun tries to shine through!

After that we walked to breakfast and then walked to the place where we always watch the fair from. Lots of other people joined us there and we all watched the long parade together. It’s especially fun when people you know are in it, and this year mom and our friend Laura were in it.

Mom & Laura

Down the parade route.

For the rest of the day we wandered around checking everything out, and I made sure to snap lots of pictures. One thing we always like to check out is the progress building where all the entries are displayed! This year I entered a few pictures, knitting, a scrapbook page and a pie. I ended up winning 1^st place for a picture, 2^nd for my novice knitting, and 3^rd for my scrapbook page! Mic also entered some really good arts and crafts and ended up winning 2^nd for a picture frame she made!

Sleepy pigs waiting for the pig show

We checked out some cow shows, horse shows, the petting area and helped out with childrens games.

4H Dairy show

A little pony in the petting area

Mic relaxing in the shade, sporting my $7.50 sunglasses!

Then our friends showed us some magic tricks and we headed home for the day!

I’ll post about Sunday’s exciting events tomorrow..

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Comments

3 Responses to “Fall Fair!”

Allison on September 25th, 2008 3:59 pm

it DOES look like we’re doing magic!!
Lauren on September 25th, 2008 4:18 pm

Was that the loonie in the straw game?? I know I’ve said this soo many times before, but I wish I was there!

The latest blog stylings of Lauren: Pie time!
Erica on September 25th, 2008 4:53 pm

I’ve missed the fair only once - because I was in the hospital darn seizures!