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tolerate everything in moderation

Saturday, March 02, 2013

G-Man out and about Big Smoke Tdot.

So we get this letter from Grace about 2 weeks ago.
Just a questionnaire.  No other instructions, even the first line is worded odd.

Then Teen tells us that we have to bring this Gingerbread person cutout around with Kieran and take pictures with it.  School would have been a no-no.  There's no way Aneta would let this paperman disrupt her class.

So I took it around with me.  To see the sights around where Grace's cousin lives.
We were at a Leafs game a while back.  I had won these tickets but wanted to show Gman what the ACC looks like.
Leafs won in OT!

Then there was our hood.  The Bloor West Village, that is slowly changing from the old guard Ukrainians, bitter from the fact that the neighbourhood demographic is changing a bit, to something other than a uni-browed and stocky meat and potatoes race.

Then I took Gman to school.  But I can't let you in without the code.



And then there is the Toronto skyline.  It was difficult to get a good shot of the once tallest free-standing structure in the world since 1973.
The closer you get the more obstructed the shot.  So I had to head back to the white bridge to get this shot with Gman.
This was fun.  We got box seats at the Raptors game last week.  Great seats, pizza, beer, you name it, hot dogs, more pizza, hagen daz.
The only thing missing was a W on the home side.
It was a beautiful day when we took Gman to Kieran's ski lessons at Centennial.  Kieran is in the shot, he's the last kid near the top of the hill in that row of 3.

BTW he passed his lessons and is moving up to the next level.  All those runs thru the trees really improved his skiing ability.  I know it helped me.

Then we took Gman to our 100+ year church - St Cecelia.  The church is under massive renovation and repair. We happen to know the architect that is leading the reno.
The inside of the church is very old.  A little dark, but it's not musty or smelly.   The acoustics are quite nice.  Not echo-y.
The roof tiles are slate.  For the reno, you can buy a roof tile and get your name engraved in it for all the seagulls to see.  So they know who's tile they crapped on.

There was a request to have Kieran in the shot.  So that Grace can show her classmates her cousin. But in the skiing shot...he's in there! A little tiny, but he's there.