One More Thing

I almost forgot I did remember to have one photo of me and my hubby together while we were in TO

I have a cute story to share too.  He and the other pilot were telling me about a team building thing they had to do at work where they had to match a word with the person it went with.  Guess what my hubby's word was?  Wait for it....   Wait for it.....

QUILTER 

Hahahaha, I almost shot pop out of my nose when they told me that!

And, no he does not quilt.

~XOP~

Ready For A Little More TO?

TO, that's what the Canadian's call Toronto. 

 Who knew?  

We had one more full day to go exploring and boy did we make the most of it! 

 We walked for over 5 hours! 

 I was exhausted. 

 Ready to go exploring with us?

I am just going to state here that there are a bazillion photos over on Flickr .

 I couldn't possibly post them all here.  

So if you want the entire tour you will need to stop over there.

We went to the train station and bought a day pass.  

That let us ride the subway, bus or street car all day. 

 Took the street car to the Distillery District. 

 I somehow thought there would be more alcohol in said district but sadly, no.

  Lots of little shops though.

There was a Sake distillery.  

We got to watch them make it and learn a lot about how they do so.

 We bought a small bottle. 

 It came with Sake glasses. 

 Hubby is a sucker for anything that comes with something else,

 LOL. 

 The process was interesting to hear about.

Next we visited a chocolate shop.  

YUM

Hubby and the other pilot are in the corner getting some hot chocolate. 

 I walked over after taking this photo. 

 I burst out laughing when I saw this on the hot chocolate container.

I think I need a Ninja sticker too!! 

 BWAHAHAHA!

OK, I'm composing myself now. 

 Whew!

Next we walked some more.  

Through the Eaton Place mall and stopped at a pub for lunch.

 I wanted to go to the Toronto Textile Museum and the guys wanted to go to the hockey hall of fame.  They dropped me off at the museum and went on their way to the hall of fame.

There were a lot of interesting textile things but there was one really unusual item.  

A camel cover.

The museum washosting a Marimekko exhibit too. 

Very interesting. 

 Loads of photos on my Flickr.

There was an amazing sashiko quilt hanging up when I first entered the museum too. 

Apparently done by a group of Canadian women for the museum.

A few close ups

I trudged to the subway and took it to Front street and walked the rest of the way to the hotel. 

I was BEAT! 

 We went out for dinner close to the hotel as we were all so tired.  

This was our view on the way back to the hotel.  

The CN tower was lit up in 2 colors. 

 The night before it was rainbow and I didn't get a picture but it was cool. 

 Too bad it was soooo pricey to go up to the top. 

 $32 to the restaurant and another $12 to to to the observation deck. 

 No thank you! 

 I like the view down here just fine.

I had to laugh when I was trying to get across the border to come home the border agent was shocked that I didn't buy anything while I was there. 

 I told her I could buy everything I wanted at home much cheaper.  

She didn't seem to like that very much! 

 HA

I did manage to get the October Birdie Stitches block done and

 will show it to you once I can get it pressed.

Hope everyone is staying safe in all this snow. 

 I am walking over to Cori's for some thread in a little bit. 

 I am quilting a little wall hanging myself but don't have the right thread color. 

 It sure is great to have her shop so close! 

 (Or maybe it's dangerous?!) 

If you are stuck inside, why don't you go online and visit her too?  

I'm sure you need something she has too. 

 It will kind of be like shopping together right?  

Virtual shopping! 

 I show you mine if you show me yours...purchases I mean.

~XOP~

Toronto

I took the train from Windsor to Toronto yesterday. 

 We went over the Ambassador bridge on our way from Detroit to Windsor

I had tof ind my way to the hotel and it happened to be by the CN tower and it was all lit up.

I didn't take a pic tonight but it was changing colors and one time it was rainbow!

Interestingly the giant crane also had lightw all over it too!

This is what it looks like in the day. 

 Maybe we will go up in the tower tomorrow.

I had a fabulous day today. 

 I got to meet my Flickr friend Carmen for lunch today. 

 She lives here and knew a great little place and we spent a wonderful hour and a half just visiting. 

 So much fun! 

 Then she walked me to the street car and put me on it to go to the Workroom, a quilt shop. 

 The shop was very quaint but, being from the US it was a little more expensive than I am used to.  The owner was so nice I bought one FQ of a Kona solid but it was $8.95!!! 

 The printed FQ's were $14.95. 

 I didn't even want to see what the Heather Ross fabric was selling for.  

YIKES!!

I took the street car back down Queen street and stopped off in the garment district. 

 I meandered in and out of the garment fabric shops. 

I went into  a Japanese ribbon shop that was pretty cool too.

 It was a fun afternoon. 

 After walking around in the frigid north I decided that it was time to go back to our hotel.  

We were staying at the Roger center and this is what I saw as I was approaching my hotel.

Unfortunately I haven't been feeling very well, stomach issues. 

 I am still glad to be here and am having fun!! 

 More when I get a chance!

~XOP~