We stayed late at the Ex one night last week in the hopes of catching the Circus Orange show at 9:45pm. Things didn’t go quite as planned however, as the rain that had been threatening to come down all day began in torrents.
When it first began we huddled under the awning leading into Heritage Court with a lot of other Ex-goers who were clearly enjoying nature’s show. The look of the heavy rain slanting down across the lights of the midway was certainly a sight to see. But as the wind picked up our awning was doing us less good by the second, so finally we relented and went into the Garden Show area of the Direct Energy Centre.
We’d already been to the building earlier in the day, but had used another door. So coming in from the rain we found ourselves standing in front of the “100 Years of Anne” display we’d missed the first time through. I think I’m one of very few Canadians who haven’t read the Anne of Green Gables books, but I was still fascinated by the details available about the author’s life and work and will be making a library trip in the near future because of it.
After the Anne display, we went back into the areas we’d walked through earlier. I don’t know what we were looking at the first time through, but when we saw the sign for “The History of the Toilet” we made a bee-line for this highly amusing (oh, um, and educational) display.
Back out on the midway the rain had finally stopped but the wind still raging, so all was quiet in the Jump Jet zone for drippingly obvious reasons. Still, we went home dry, happy and satisfied with our evening if indoor exploration.