Sunday - June 23

 A funky weather day.....rain and strong winds were predicted and we did have rain showers off and on this morning....closest church was a good jaunt + 2 of their masses were in Portuguese,    

We went to livestream mass with Father Jonathan in Port Clinton.

Between showers we walked to Sobeys for some groceries (had to watch the weight....Mark used his backpack and I had a grocery bag from Trader Joe's.   Also stopped at LCBO for a bit of libations and then to Loblaws (very nice grocery) for a few more items and on home.    Unpacked our stuff and another brief shower came thru....

Read, took naps and then Mark said he needed an ice cream fix.    The sun was shining but crazy windy....we took off for a 1-mile walk.    Sooo much going on this Sunday afternoon in downtown Toronto along the waterfront - people, bikers, joggers ,boats (water taxis, tour boats, ferries, and pleasure boats), plus private and corporate jets taking off and landing at the Billy Bishop airport directly across from our marina.    AND never ending sirens all day long.  The city of Toronto has over 3m people and combining that with the metro population, they are at 6.4m.   They recently passed Chicago in city population (Chicago has 2.6m).   We walked thru several very nice parks.  Took us a while, but we found the ice cream and  how crazy that it was called "The Ice Cream Fix Bar"   What a wild windy day walking along the water with winds gusting to 37 mph.

Enjoyed our chocolate chip ice cream cookies

Mark waiting for the gal to make up our cookie sandwiches!

The Toronto Music Garden is very close to our marina and such a pretty area of trees, flowers, paved walkways, benches, etc.   They have concerts in the park on the weekend and folks were getting settled in as we walked by.   

Mark walking thru the garden

So many pretty flowers - not sure what these are?

Catrina in her slip across from the music garden

Someone posted (anonymously) on the blog about all the steps in the CN Tower (1,778) to the observation deck and she/he did this (WOW) several years ago in 19 minutes, 59 seconds!   She/he said groups have fundraisers with participants walking the stairs!    These friends have since identified themselves - thanks!!!

Philip, Annette, Ryan and Erin are back from their Alaskan cruise - had a great time!    That is one of our all-time favorite vacation spots - soooo vast, soooo magnificent, soooo beautiful!!!

So it turned out to be a really nice day despite the strong winds and we've enjoyed our stay in Toronto, but really prefer the smaller towns.....tomorrow, back to the cruising!

7 on zoom tonight - new baby talk, vacation plans, Grandma Doris's week at the lake with grandkids 7 and older, Toronto, etc.   

Enjoy your week!