Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Ok if you want to read my story about seeing some of the cast of Heroes you can visit Celebrity Scoop to read the story and have a look at five of the best photos that I managed to take on Friday night.
I must warn you that the cast was pretty far away. I zoomed in with my camera and then when I uploaded the photos to my computer I cropped the photos to get as close as possible, but the photos are not the best I’ve ever taken, that’s for sure!
Sorry that I haven’t been posting over the last few days. We had our family reunion from Friday until earlier this afternoon and I’m just exhausted!
On Friday we went to see the Blue Jays play a game of baseball against the Seattle Mariners. Of course the Blue Jays won the game. 10 of us attended the game that day.
That day I’d wanted to get downtown a little earlier because some of the cast of Heroes was in town and they were doing some presentation at Dundas Square. I didn’t make it to that, but much to my surprise the four cast members that were in town went to the baseball game! I took some photos and I’ll be making a post on my Celebrity blog shortly with a few of the photos included. So I did get to see some Heroes after all. Pretty cool.
The next day we, 15 of us, went on a dinner boat cruise on Lake Ontario. We had a great meal and I’ve got some fantastic photos of the cities skyline at sunset that I took from the boat. Just beautiful. If you ever come to Toronto I highly recommend going on a dinner boat cruise. It was a lot of fun.
On Sunday we went to my brothers in Aurora, Ontario for a BBQ. I think there were 24 or 26 of us that day. I’d lost count by that point! We had a great day together. My niece brought a game called Washer Toss with her to the BBQ. It had been my parents washer toss boards that we’d always played with when visiting them in Ottawa. Most of us hadn’t played for at least four years so it was an interesting tournament! My sister in law and my nieces husband ended up being the big champs of the day, but my nephew and I came in second. Yes I can throw washers! LOL
Lets see, I’m so tired I’m trying to remember just what we did yesterday … Oh yes … My brother from Vancouver, his son, and his daughter and her boyfriend went to the Hockey Hall of Fame while my sister in law came over to our house. Chris and I took my sister in law to Toronto’s beach area and we had a great time walking on the boardwalk, watching volleyball games and eating ice cream.
Later that evening we all met up again at a downtown restaurant for dinner. Man that restaurant had huge servings! Every single thing I ordered I only ate part of and brought the rest home in a doggy bag. We had my left overs for dinner tonight.
Today was the final day that any of us could get together. My brother from Vancouver, his wife, son, daughter and her boyfriend were going back to Vancouver at 7 pm this evening, but they had the day to get together with whoever was available. Luckily Chris had today off work so we met up with them and went to an art gallery where one of my nephews had some of his photos on display. Since that was around lunch time my sister who lives and works in the downtown area was able to get together with us to see my nephews work and then we went and have some coffee and tea together before dropping her off a her office again.
We then went to the beach area again so those who didn’t go yesterday could see how lovely the area was. Around mid afternoon we had a nice lunch on an outdoor patio on the Beaches – complete with more left over food to bring home. Why do restaurants have such huge servings?
After that we lead my brother towards the highway so he could head back to the airport area to return their vehicle and check in to await their flight.
Can you see why I’m tired? I’m totally wiped out! I have to recover though ’cause my birthday’s on Thursday and I’m sure we’ll be doing something that day too.
I’ll be processing all the photos that I took over the weekend (probably 500!) on the computer and posting some soon. Stay tuned as there are some spectacular shots!
What did you do over the holiday weekend?
I just love hibiscus flowers. They are so large and colorful. I love the vibrant peachy orange of this one.
For years we grew a tall hibiscus tree indoors in our apartment, but when we moved to the house it died on us. Since then I think I’ve only managed to keep smaller tropical hibiscus plants alive for about two years at the most. Naturally I keep the hibiscus outdoors in the summer and then bring it in towards the end of September when it begins to get cooler during the day and night.
I think this year I’m going to get another humidifier for our house, but the new humidifier will just be in our spare bedroom where we keep our tropical plants during the winter months. The extra moisture in the air should help. I hope!
If you have success keeping hibiscus and other tropical indoor during the cold winter months I’d love to hear how you do it. Maybe one of your tips will work for me.
BTW sorry that my Green Thumb Sunday post is so late. I’ve had a whirlwind of a weekend. See the next post!
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
I’m still trying to decide if I’ll be going to Las Vegas in November for P0stiecon or not. There hasn’t been as much information about the event as I’d like so I’m having trouble deciding whether we should go or not. I’ve also been sicker than normal lately and if that continues there’s no way I’ll be able to go.
I’ll have to decide soon though as we’ll need to book a hotel and flight if we’re going. There’s two conventions together and hey it’s Las Vegas, so I’m sure there’s lots of conventions going on there all the time.
If we do go to Las Vegas I hope we’ll be able to see some sights while we’re there. I’d love to go to Caesars Palace and catch some Vegas shows too. Neither Chris or I are much into gambling, but you never know we might try our hand at it.
One reason that I’d like to go is to meet several of the new blogging friends that I’ve made over the past nine months or so. It’d be great to get together with some fellow posties.
Who else is going to to the Blog World Expo and P0stiecon?
Have you been watching the new ABC television show I-Caught? I think the show is on Tuesday nights. I’m not sure because I recorded the show and didn’t watch it until last night.
I’ve watched two episodes of I-Caught so far and I really like the show. It seems to center around the crazy things people do, and how they broadcast there ideas on the internet, often through videos submitted to YouTube.
The shows About page states:
What is i-CAUGHT? Well – we all know there’s a video revolution swirling around us all – 24/7. Ask yourself… how many times were you caught on surveillance video today? Did you – like more than 100,000 other people – upload a video onto the internet? Did you go online like millions of others and watch a video?
We’re ALL a part of this new video revolution.
But it’s more than just entertainment. Every one of these videos has a story behind it. Who made it? What was going on behind the scenes? What came after it? And how much can we really believe what we see?
An awful lot of it is also news. The politician caught on an open mic. The policeman caught doing the heroic – or the opposite. The patrol on the streets of Baghdad. Or the moment when Mother Nature wreaks havoc on the ususpecting. We’re watching – literally – as every single person with a video camera can gather news for all the rest of us.
We call this new television and internet experience i-CAUGHT. Because that’s how so many people feel these days. Everywhere you look – cameras – catching everything: breaking news… making headlines… turning unknowns into celebrities… turning others into laughing stocks…
And for all the world to see – in an instant. It’s video at the speed of life.
Every week, i-CAUGHT brings you the real stories – reporting on the real people – behind the videos that millions of us watch and share everyday.
I didn’t see last weeks episode, but they apparently asked their views to submit via video three words that they feel are important to them. The words could have something to do with life in general or reflect how the person felt about their day or week. It didn’t matter as long as it was three words.
At the end of this weeks episode they showed a video they’d put together. It was composed of many of the submissions that people had provided over the last week. I’d put the video in this post, but I fear that it’s autoplay and I loath autoplay videos on websites.
Some of the submissions were humorous, others were inspiring and some were just sad. As I watched the video my eyes got a little misty. That’s how deeply some of those simple three word submissions touched me. If you’d like to watch the video just visit “Your 3 Words”. You might even be inspired to submit your own video.
Yes, they are still accepting submissions. When Chris and I heard that we decided that we’d each make a short three word video too. Who knows maybe our videos will become part of the I-Caught Your Three Words video montage.