Linking up with Marg at The Intrepid Reader
July 2023 - Toronto ON
2022 - Twillingate Newfoundland
We left around 9:30 to drive to Montreal for the weekend to visit family. We checked into the Hilton Garden Inn around 3:30 and went to John's son for the evening.
Sunday we spent the day with his daughter's family.
Don Valley Parkway leaving Toronto.
Driving to lunch.
Steak, pepperoni, mushrooms, peppers and onion sub at Poutineville.
Heading home!
Monday we left around 10 and got home around 4, there was a lot of construction on the highway. When we hit the outskirts of Toronto traffic slowed to a crawl so we took the toll highway.
Monday Mural was taken in June.
Tuesday was mainly a rainy, stay at home day. We didn't want to move our car from its temporary spot that our favourite security guy, Arshad, had saved for us on Monday, he even called us while we were driving home to check when we wanted it. The parking garage is being washed by level, and our turn was Wednesday so all cars had to be moved.
Tuesday Treasures was a look at the Shelby restaurant where we had John's birthday lunch.
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Wednesday John went to golf and I decided to go to Yorkville.
Emily May Rose's iconic raccoons in Union Station.
New coffee shop in Union, was giving out samples and the line was even longer when I came back.
A perfect day for ice cream, hot and steamy.
Check out the dude with the black hat that was behind the car.
Interesting hoarding on one of the many empty stores underground in the Holt Renfrew Centre.
It used to be bustling when I worked in the area.
Thursday John headed to his golf lesson and I only went to Longo's to pick up fruit and vegetables.
Friday had a heat alert warning (feels like 40 C) so we elected for a PJ/movie day. Anyway we will be out Saturday at a ball game.
But chores got done first!
PLUS we booked a trip! August 17 to 28 to the Yukon and Northwest Territories! WOO HOO another bucket list item! ✅✅
Tour package booked, flights looked and additional hotel stays and airport pickup booked.
The tour package is called Artic Summer Explorer - Road to the Artic Sea.
I thought it should say Ocean not Sea.
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. It has also been described as an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It is also seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing World Ocean.We fly to Vancouver (5 hours) then to Whitehorse (2 hr 20 min) and will be on our own until the tour starts on the 20th. There are so many flight cancellations so we wanted to make sure we were not delayed. Plus the tour doesn't really spend any time in Whitehorse so we can discover it on our own.
COOKING
Saturday - Montreal
Sunday - Montreal
Monday - hamburgers
Tuesday - curry chicken
Wednesday - chevaps on pita
Thursday - trout (didn't smell right Greek lemon roasted potatoes, bacon and eggs
Friday steak baked potato asparagus and chimichurri
WATCHING
We finished Wrong Side of the Tracks.
We watched (paid) The Whale, a 2022 American psychological drama film based on a 2012 play of the same name. The plot follows a reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher who tries to restore his relationship with his teenage daughter.
Fraser won the Academy Award, Critics' Choice Award and SAG Award for Best Actor, and Chau was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.Redemption 2013 A damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity. Starring Jason Statham, you can't go wrong.
Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film. The film stars Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, and Tony Goldwyn. The plot centers on a pilot (Butler) allying with a prisoner (Colter) to save his passengers from a hostile territory they landed in for an emergency landing. This was a fun movie to watch.
This was fun, first it's Canadian, it is nerdy and we both had Blackberrys.
A couple of strange ones.
Ordinary Days 2017 Cara Cook is a bright, athletic, college student who disappears without a trace. Five days play out three times from a trio of perspectives; her spiraling parents, the troubled detective assigned to her case and finally, Cara herself.
Freelancers 2012 The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops.
READING
READING
I read Woman Last Seen and really enjoyed it but the ending was a little disappointing.
I finished The Children, I almost put it down in the first chapter but am happy I stuck with it. There is humor, darkness, revelations, and past indiscretions exposed. What will happen to all of them kept me reading.
I started Old Bones by (new to me) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
As always, a feast of photos and tours. I couldn't stand "The Whale" and was harsh in my criticism of it. I felt he did not deserve the Oscar for sweating in a fat suit. The rest of yoursrecs noted. AND I envy your trip to the Yukon et al, it was on my bucket list for years. I had planned one of those massive road trips but life got in the way and then disability. I am sure your updates on it will take me along.
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Colourful hoarding seems to be in season for malls.
ReplyDeleteNot the first time I've said it I expect, but welcome to multi lingual Montreal, with road signs in French only.
ReplyDeleteYour trip sounds great, and rather adventurous. I'd forgotten how long the flight between Vancouver and Toronto is, like flying from one side of Australia to the other.
Looks like a fun trip to Mntreal. Lots of good food. I've not seen any of the movies you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteThe Yukon trip sounds amazing. That's smart to get there ahead of time to explore the starting point. I hope the wildfires are well-contained by then. My brother-in-law had trouble driving up to Alaska earlier this summer because of them.
ReplyDeleteOoo I'm looking forward to your Yukon trip!
ReplyDeleteI did not enjoy The Whale at all.
I love that Shelby restaurant so much!!!!! And I love Toronto for saving these old buildings and making them part of the new buildings.
I love holiday planning! We just booked our flights for October!
ReplyDeleteYou got a lot of good watching in. I'll look over your list carefully so I can take notes.
ReplyDeleteYour trip to the Arctic sounds wonderful. And cool. And, boy, does cool sound good right now.