Four days in Toronto
Aug. 12th, 2022 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyI'd been warned a bit about how much of a hassle flying is these days, which did make me a little less strung-out over it-except this morning, when we were in the very long security line for American-bound flights, and the security people announced they were pausing because the immigration/customs area had gotten overloaded, and I recalled the horror story from someone on one of my discords of someone who pretty much missed their flight because of the length of such a pause. Fortunately it was a shorter one, and though there were moments of high stress, especially for my mother, who again repeated she couldn't have handled it without me, and some delays on both flights, we got to Toronto and back. And booking through Air Canada, even for flights that turned out to be joint with United, meant there were even mask mandates for them both, and, even more importantly, there was one in the airport we ended up spending five whole hours in.
We saw our friends, and they introduced their baby to his honorary grandmother and aunt. As three-month old babies go he seemed be all right and doing all right, though his parents ended up spending less time with us as planned because he kept throwing their schedules off and exhausting them. They are very dedicated parents to him, and while the future doesn't look good for any babies right now, they'll give him as good a one as they can. Taking him for walks also allowed them to give us tours of downtown Toronto, with us walking twice on the Queen's Quay, and the spectacular view from their apartment alone was a memorable survey of the area.
We also got the chance to attend the National Bank Open, and see the Royal Ontario Museum. At the former, we got to watch Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina go toe to toe, which was an exciting suspenseful match where both of them brought it. We got looks at a few more players as well, including Jessica Pegula, who didn't play as well as she might have liked but prevailed, Asia Muhammed, who did all she could against her, Jelena Ostapenko, who was certainly very interesting to watch indeed, and Alison Riske-Armitaj, who had the attention stolen form her by Ostapenko, but played pretty well. I got sunburnt to hell, though.
Mom was disappointed by the latter, but I did very much like their display of artistic masks from around the world. It also led to me writing a little fic which I'll probably post tomorrow.
We saw our friends, and they introduced their baby to his honorary grandmother and aunt. As three-month old babies go he seemed be all right and doing all right, though his parents ended up spending less time with us as planned because he kept throwing their schedules off and exhausting them. They are very dedicated parents to him, and while the future doesn't look good for any babies right now, they'll give him as good a one as they can. Taking him for walks also allowed them to give us tours of downtown Toronto, with us walking twice on the Queen's Quay, and the spectacular view from their apartment alone was a memorable survey of the area.
We also got the chance to attend the National Bank Open, and see the Royal Ontario Museum. At the former, we got to watch Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina go toe to toe, which was an exciting suspenseful match where both of them brought it. We got looks at a few more players as well, including Jessica Pegula, who didn't play as well as she might have liked but prevailed, Asia Muhammed, who did all she could against her, Jelena Ostapenko, who was certainly very interesting to watch indeed, and Alison Riske-Armitaj, who had the attention stolen form her by Ostapenko, but played pretty well. I got sunburnt to hell, though.
Mom was disappointed by the latter, but I did very much like their display of artistic masks from around the world. It also led to me writing a little fic which I'll probably post tomorrow.
