GETTING OVER IT?

Even with the buzz of our finches, we've been missing the buzz of Toronto for a while. Usually we go in to our old Beaches neighbourhood, but I kept thinking how great it would be to live in the downtown core, walking or cycling around. So yesterday we went into the city but stayed in the centre at a student-co-op / turned-hotel for the summer. Right away, strolled a few blocks to a $5 movie (Q2U: were we in the mood for Madagascar or Savages?) Had a sub, noticed electric cars being recharged, hung out at splashy Dundas Square. Another walk to a really pleasant twilight meal on the sidewalk patio of Gabby's while hundreds of Microsoft conventioneers rubber-necked the Film Festival HQ across the street. The city mirrored ---- literally --- our favourite things to do.

It may have been the heat, but the drawbacks of downtown also showed up big time. Congestion on the streets and blaring music is one thing. But the worst is the constant noise, especially of construction. Hundreds of condos being built mean hundreds of cement trucks, horns, cranes and the clang of rebar. So, I think eventually it will be back to the Beaches and just take a streetcar into downtown as needed. Would you rather see Spiderman on the street or a real spider, man, on the daisy??