I have a (bad) habit of starting blogs but not finishing them right away. At any given time I may have 3 or 4 unfinished pieces I’ll be working on and sometimes it’ll be days or even weeks before I’m ready to “publish” a post. In the case of the next two blogs it’s actually been almost 3 months since I first started writing them. Better late than never, I guess...
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It's September & the end of the year is creeping towards us - it'll be here sooner than we can believe. I wanted to post more blogs this year, I really do have a lot I want to share, but sometimes it's still hard finding the right words, the right tone, the right time to let it all out.
I'll start this blog with the end of our summer holidays!
This year we decided on a true "staycation". The Big Oh & I grew up in one of the best cities in the world. A city that many around the world make it a point of coming to for their own vacation. There is culture, amazing food, word-class entertainment & sporting facilities, and lots of family activities & attractions. As a 'local' we can take for granted what our city has to offer and now that we live just a short drive outside of it we don't even think of it as a place where we may want to take our children to visit. The traffic, the parking costs, the line-ups - there can be so many reasons to avoid going 'downtown'! So what did we do? We checked ourselves into a hotel right in the heart of downtown & spent 3 days exploring with our kids!
Day 1: We checked into a hotel in the afternoon and spent the rest of the day taking the streetcar to enjoy the sights & foods of some of the places we often see in instagram posts (we took a few pics ourselves). We had ice cream & delicious baked goods in The Distillery District, then off to Chinatown to show our kids where we spent our weekends while growing up. A short walk away was Kensington Market where we took in the sights and sounds of street performers and musicians. Dinner and dessert were these two fantastic little finds: Valens and Artic Bites - Italian food & ice cream - two of our favs.
To Be Continued....
Y.C.
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