Party and a Play

For the first time this year I actually missed a day of blogging.  I knew it was inevitable because I am not home 365 days of the year!  I do get out once in a while which is a good thing!

We went to Toronto on Friday to help our friend Rupert celebrate his twin milestone of his 65th birthday and retirement.  We had SOOO much fun!!!  It was great to be surrounded by other trans folk who have either been around for a while or for those who are just getting started.  It was lovely to meet some new people and even lovelier to get to see some people that we have not seen in at least 5 years or more!  Here are some fun photos!

After leaving the party, we drove to my Mom and my Dad's out in Embro, which is about half way between London and Woodstock.   e didn't get there till around midnight or so.  It was a short visit but a great visit! We had a good time of conversation and reuniting, so it was fun and awesome to get to see them again.

Then on Saturday we drove back to Toronto.  After finding out that Dan was available to spend time with us between 4 & 6.  Which was great!  We ended up spending a bit too much time driving around and looking and deciding on what we were going to do and where we were going to eat.  We ended up going to this place called Toby's.  I spotted it because I used to love going to Toby's Goodeats over by the Finch Bus Station years ago...but I don't think that chain exists anymore.   But anyway we went in because Dan wanted a beer, and so did Abby. Dan had a hamburger, Abby had a plate of Chicken Fingers and fries, and I had the best most amazing Nacho plate I EVER had...it had chicken and cheese and tomato and sour cream and so on.  It was all so YUMMY!!!

So then we ended up driving Dan back to the theatre and we parked the car.  We went to a coffee shop where they had cheesecake like you wouldn't believe which we didn't have any of, so we were good...there was far too much to choose from so we only had coffee to kill some time.

When we got into the theatre it was not busy at all but they showed us to our table which was front row to the left of the stage.  We sat with family related to Linda, and we enjoyed meeting them.  Then the show began with amazement and surprise.  It was called Rumplestiltskin.   The actors and actresses were all incredibly talented, and we laughed at all the puns that we could follow anyway...there were some British references that we had no idea of though.

But it was amazing to connect with my nephew again and very happy to see that he was happy and enjoying life like it was meant to be enjoyed.

We left Toronto around 10 pm and we were both awake and alert for the drive home for the most part...by the time we got to Barrie we had to stop at the en route for Abby to rest her eyes for a bit and then carried on.  We stopped in Orillia to grab a coffee..and by the time we got to North of Huntsville we hit an almost white out condition on the roads.  So the last half hour or so of the drive Abby was in heaven as she LOVES driving in those kinds of conditions.  I know, she is just weird, but she is all mine, people...lol

The snow storm didn't slow her down at all, in fact she instantly became alert again and wanted to keep on going in it.  But I was happy to be home and to sleep in my own bed again...