Sunday, September 20, 2009
Visiting Toronto
Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighbourhood.
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood.
I'm taking a greyhound on the Hudson river line
I'm in a New York state of mind ...
Well, I gues this is just York (Toronto), but that is where we went for the weekend. Not well planned, not planned much ahead of time, but we threw together a get away. I took a day off work (I really appreciate that for some strange reason) and rushed to Winnipeg to catch a flight to meet up with Erica in the big city. It has been fun to not be on any kind of a schedule, but our own.
We saw two movies on Friday and had dinner with Neil and Darcy. Eamon in the morning was a disturbing little movie about a child who is in control of his family. It was interesting to examin the different behaviors of the mother and the father and the child. In the evening we went to a Gala showing of Max Manus, a World War II hero. I am not big on war movies, but this one was really good. The ending of it spoke to some of the things I have been studying in relation to post-traumatic stress syndrome. Dinner with Neil and Darcy was good as they told us about the different wedding plans that they were making. Keeping the wedding casual, but still a wedding.
Saturday we went to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and saw the Dead Sea Scrolls. That was a great experience for me. We then talked about what other displays in the museum we would like to see and decided to head elsewhere. We found a line up for viewing another movie but we did not make it in to that showing so we had some lunch, did some shopping (did not buy much) and then headed back to the hotel for the rest of the day.
Tonight we will fly back to Winnipeg and then drive to Kenora. We will get in late and we both have to work in the morning. I also have to drive to Winnipeg on Monday and Tuesday night for my classes for this year. Back to back classes means I have to be on top of my homework and readings for these classes or I have trouble getting the assignments finished. One class has a weekly assignment based on the reading that I have to do. It is not done yet... I will try to get these things done but the teacher just email one of the readings today so I'm not sure that it will be done for Tuesday. I like vacations, but sometimes it is hard to catch up afterwards.
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood.
I'm taking a greyhound on the Hudson river line
I'm in a New York state of mind ...
Well, I gues this is just York (Toronto), but that is where we went for the weekend. Not well planned, not planned much ahead of time, but we threw together a get away. I took a day off work (I really appreciate that for some strange reason) and rushed to Winnipeg to catch a flight to meet up with Erica in the big city. It has been fun to not be on any kind of a schedule, but our own.
We saw two movies on Friday and had dinner with Neil and Darcy. Eamon in the morning was a disturbing little movie about a child who is in control of his family. It was interesting to examin the different behaviors of the mother and the father and the child. In the evening we went to a Gala showing of Max Manus, a World War II hero. I am not big on war movies, but this one was really good. The ending of it spoke to some of the things I have been studying in relation to post-traumatic stress syndrome. Dinner with Neil and Darcy was good as they told us about the different wedding plans that they were making. Keeping the wedding casual, but still a wedding.
Saturday we went to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and saw the Dead Sea Scrolls. That was a great experience for me. We then talked about what other displays in the museum we would like to see and decided to head elsewhere. We found a line up for viewing another movie but we did not make it in to that showing so we had some lunch, did some shopping (did not buy much) and then headed back to the hotel for the rest of the day.
Tonight we will fly back to Winnipeg and then drive to Kenora. We will get in late and we both have to work in the morning. I also have to drive to Winnipeg on Monday and Tuesday night for my classes for this year. Back to back classes means I have to be on top of my homework and readings for these classes or I have trouble getting the assignments finished. One class has a weekly assignment based on the reading that I have to do. It is not done yet... I will try to get these things done but the teacher just email one of the readings today so I'm not sure that it will be done for Tuesday. I like vacations, but sometimes it is hard to catch up afterwards.
// posted by Eric @ 8:29 AM 
