Just got back from the 2009 CNE this evening. Everything went pretty well, until Finney suddenly got the runs before Carrie could get her to a washroom…and then her hat fell in the toilet. She was generally much more chipper afterwards, though. Owen became surgically-attached to a candy apple and liberally coated his face with the sticky red stuff to show everyone how pleased he was to have received one. Finn objected loudly whenever Carrie or I helped ourselves to her cotton candy. It was nice trip to that sort of thing, and we saw it again through their eyes this year.
I’ve added a few pictures at the end from our last visit to the CNE (in 2005) to contrast the age of the kids.
Finn and Owen attempt to get a Canadian Forces LAV in motion. “Why won’t it move, Dada?”
Finn finds out that centrifugal force is not to be trifled with.
Finn and Carrie coming down the Giant Slide, one of them less enthusiastic than the other.
Owen, at the controls of an F16. “Where’s the gun button?”
Ooooh, priddy!
See above.
From 2005:
Finn, at 1 and a half (in 2005), pleased as punch to be on a real Ferris Wheel!
Owen and Carrie (2005). Owen pensive at the thought of something or other. Hey, it was a long time ago now; an eon, really in child years.
CNE guy trying and failing to guess Owen’s weight (2005). Picture that got away that day? Owen receiving a teeny toy and simultaneously pointing at one of the humungo toys hanging from the shop roof.