| Page Views: 1,670 Last Visit to Toronto: September, 2005 | Toronto,where my Father was born by keida84 - last update: Sep 30, 2005 |
Girls and their trucks head to Toronto to see VT On the road to Toronto LoriPori, Waaleweiner and Keida84 ( pronounced Key-da not Kai-da) have packed up the "truck" and headed out to go to Toronto. Oh yes and we brought Hansi as well. Afterall, someone had to do the driving! |
| GrandDad standing on the right with the ukelele |
|  | My first airplane ride came when I was 12 My father never knew his dad as his mother (in the string of many husbands) left before my father was old enough to remember his father. She always told him he was dead. It wasn't until 1958 that my Dad quite by accident learned his father was alive and living in Toronto. Father and son tried to forge a relationship as best they could. My grandfather had remarried to a lovely woman named, "Lil" who was felled by a brain tumor and had use of only 1 arm. My grandfather cared for her until the day he died.
In the summer of 1971, we took a trip East to Toronto, my grandfather actually lived in Windsor, Ontario. My favorite memory is Grandpop sneaking a dollar into my hand and then telling us to go get some ice cream at the Dairy Queen on the corner. We got to go to the Science and Industry museum, I thought that was the best museum ever! I look forward to this coming September so I can visit there again and the Dairy Queen will have been replaced by Tim, Tim Horton that is!
For this travelogue I am having a contest. Who can come up with the most appropriate caption for a particular photo:
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Toronto VT Meet It all came full circle when I returned this September 2005 to Toronto for the Virtual Tourist Meeting. | | |
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| Pros: | "Great restaurants, hotels and a subway system to get there" | | Cons: | "Too far away from Hollywood Beach, CA" | | In A Nutshell: | "Toronto is a walkable city that deserves recogniton for revitalization projects" |
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rexvaughan Wed Jan 24, 2007 02:47 UTC
Hello, Kat. Wish I had been in T with you. Hansi & Lori stopped here Sunday so we got to meet and have lunch with them and Balfor. How are you? Regards to Paul. | mazzap Mon Nov 28, 2005 23:58 UTC
Toronto is somewhere I keep being told I must visit - by my cousins who live there!! One day maybe......Marion x. | gilabrand Sat Nov 26, 2005 15:59 UTC
Loved the roots story - and the tips. | cnango Sat Nov 12, 2005 06:25 UTC
It sounds like you had a really great time in Toronto. I love the way you describe all your VT friends and their unique and special personalities. I will miss you at the Big Melbourne Meet : ( But I know you will have a great time in London instead : ) |
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