Yesterday we made our annual pilgrimage to The Ex! and had a great time. Trevor and Dana were our travel partners on this day that started with a couple of hours sitting in the sun and enjoying the sites and sounds of the Canadian International Air Show. The hunger bug bit us before the show was over, so we headed to the food building where I gorged myself on two dozen Tiny Tom donuts, cheese fries and a burger, while Leah enjoyed a corndog. Dana sampled poutine that looked good, but in my post-Ex haze I can’t remember if she enjoyed it.
I see it reported often that the US are an obese nation, but rarely is that comment made about Canadians. Well unless the majority of visitors to The Ex on Saturday were Americans, Canadians are a bunch of overweight, out of shape, slobs. There were plenty of fit looking people at The Ex, but the proportion of of obese to non-obese people was totally skewed. Is there something about The Ex that attracts obese people? Really, is there? Is it the opportunities to win useless midway prizes?
After The Ex we headed to Dr. G’s for dinner and a couple of drinks – specifically Lemonhoppers, a killer mix of Grasshopper Wheat Ale and lemon juice. Totally refreshing on a hot late-summer evening.
To top off my day we crawled into bed and flipped on the TV only to catch “The Worlds Heaviest Man” on TLC. A show documenting the “efforts” a 1200lb man is making to get his weight back to a manageable 230lbs. How he allowed himself to get that fat is a topic for another day…
*Photos from tasteto.com and Flickr.
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