WINDSOR ROYAL HORSE SHOW

Neigh!  That's how I feel about horses but these beauties that we saw today were just beautiful. Wednesday opened the annual horse show in Windsor and there are folks and horses from all over the world. With Kyle and Bridget away this weekend Grand da and I took the kids to the show. Having gone the past year or so the kids knew more about the workings of this than we did. They knew there would be plenty of places for us to spend our money on them and Grandpa was fully prepared to thwart their efforts to get "things". Grand Pa is basically on my shit list after today because he was just a nasty old fart for the entire day. G seems to feel that he alone will "correct" and transform these 2 perfect children into clones of himself. GOD HELP US ALL!  My 3 kids and myself all need or have had therapy thanks to G and now he wants to "fix" Abby and Roman.

Returning to the point at hand, the horse show was quite an experience. The day was perfect, cool and SUNNY! Yes, the sun was actually out for a good part of the day and made it beautiful in the sunshine. When the clouds came it go chilly so we spent a lot of time taking off and putting on jackets. Luckily it had not rained in the past 3 days so the  muddy ground was at a minimum and we really didn't need to wear our boots.

We took a cab into town because knowing we would be walking around the entire day there was no reason to start the day with a 45 minute walk. The first things we encountered upon entering the grounds were 3 "rides", (a Ferris wheel, a carousel and a huge slide) Heaven forbid the rides should be included in the expensive tickets for the show . . .  rather they cost 2.50 pounds or nearly $5 each. You can guess what the kids wanted to do but we put them off to the end of the day. But just in case you actually got past the rides without spending money the next booths contained carnival games. Also at 2.5 pounds a play.  I thought we came here to see horses?   We also managed to avoid the games only to come around the next turn in the road and find the FOOD COURT!  By now I am beginning to wonder if they even have a horse at this event but sure enough we did find the horses and spent a great day watching parades and jumping of both large and small horses. At one point we were watching the children's competition on small ponies. There was one little guy about 7 years old who just swept the crowd away.

It was a good time and once we stopped for lunch, cotton candy, ice cream, a carousel ride and a game the kids were ready to head home. G and I were pretty much DONE at that point but it was an experience we will remember.