What a concept --- Birthday Week, not just a day! Probably the busiest 7 days of the year in the city and we tried to do it all. Last Sunday we made a special trip downtown to ride the new generation of streetcars on their first day. They caused a sensation on Spadina Street with lots of gawkers because they're longer, lighter, quieter, and just way cooler (a/c too!). Hopped off and managed to catch some of the CNE Air Show featuring the Canadian Snowbird jets. Hopped back on and got home to find the neighbours' roof is finally getting some attention. Raccoons living in the chimney, rain leaking through the shingles. Next day strolled down to see The F-Word, a bittersweet rom-com movie. Extra interesting because it was shot largely in our Beach neighbourhood --- great footage for any future Home Exchange! Also interesting because in the U.S. and U.K., the title is What If because the Americans and Brits would be scandalized by the original title. Lighten up out there!
Also just down the road we saw the new Cirque du Soleil show, Kurios. As always, fantastic talents from around the world performing to a story line both impossibly creative and eye-popping to see in person. Don't miss this amazing show, your dinner table will never look the same.
Then the annual circus of film rolled into town, the Toronto International Film Festival. Hundreds of films from around the world performing story lines both impossibly creative and eye-popping to see in person. (That sentence looks familiar? See paragraph above. Repeated like Groundhog Day, which was honoured on its 25th anniversary!). TIFF has grown so much that streets are now closed off and filmmakers compete to be seen by the legendary Toronto film buffs. Of course, hundreds of stars show up too --- this time we walked by Kevin McHale (the kid in the wheelchair on TV show Glee) and Dustin Hoffman. They star in a film called Boychoir.
Yesterday took a day trip to Niagara Falls. Wanted to ride the train to get there but wound up on a comfie Amtrak bound for NYC rather than the Canadian VIA Rail! Revisited all the glitzy/tacky tourist strip but the main event was the wetter-than-wet ride on the new ferry thisclosetothefalls. Like the new streetcar, the Hornblower (poorly named, no?) was bigger, faster, and way cooler. Just like Birthday Week!
Also just down the road we saw the new Cirque du Soleil show, Kurios. As always, fantastic talents from around the world performing to a story line both impossibly creative and eye-popping to see in person. Don't miss this amazing show, your dinner table will never look the same.
Then the annual circus of film rolled into town, the Toronto International Film Festival. Hundreds of films from around the world performing story lines both impossibly creative and eye-popping to see in person. (That sentence looks familiar? See paragraph above. Repeated like Groundhog Day, which was honoured on its 25th anniversary!). TIFF has grown so much that streets are now closed off and filmmakers compete to be seen by the legendary Toronto film buffs. Of course, hundreds of stars show up too --- this time we walked by Kevin McHale (the kid in the wheelchair on TV show Glee) and Dustin Hoffman. They star in a film called Boychoir.
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