Royal Winter Fair

Today we all went to the huge Royal Winter Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. The fair is the largest indoor fair and equestrian competition in the world and has been held every year since 1922. Growers, breeders, exhibitors from all over Canada and some international come to exhibit their animals and compete for the best cow, horse, goat, pig or vegetable.

Kiefer and Oona liked the billy goats. Oona fed a little goat that followed her around the whole fence periphery. She said, of the little goat, "He's my best friend."

We liked these two cozy piggies.

Some of the root vegetables looked very strange - parsnip roots with tendrils that looked like spaghetti, beet roots the size of small pumpkins, sunflowers that reached to the ceiling of the industrial building.

This pumpkin weighted 952 pounds. The first place prize pumpkin weighed in at 1,234 pounds!

We stayed too too long with so very much to see that Alex and Sonja had noisy and cranky ride home in the evening rush hour with both kids crying in the back seat of their car.

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