Yesterday Matthew and I had a pretty exciting and eventful day.
In the morning we dropped Natasha off at my parents' place and headed downtown. First we visited the bus terminal and bought two return tickets to Montreal, Quebec; we're going to take the Coach Canada bus because it travels to Montreal about an hour faster than the Greyhound bus. We'll most likely be leaving Toronto at 9:30am and arriving in Montreal at 4:05pm, just in time for our hotel's check-in time of 4:00pm. We still haven't made a plan of what we're going to visit - which tourist locations and restaurants, so I am going to try and plan that out this week.
After we had the tickets, we took the subway to King St. because Matthew was craving Indian food. (What else is new, right?) King St. is full of really nice restaurants, and Kama is one of them. It's a really nice, quiet restaurant with a fantastic service and a great $11.99 lunch buffet. They had a lot of food choices so naturally we stuffed ourselves 'till we couldn't breathe. I also had a Mango Lassi drink which, needless to say, was delicious!
Next, we headed to the Princess of Wales theatre because we had tickets to see the Phantom of the Opera play. The play ran for 2 1/2 hours and was really interesting. I cannot say it was spectacular or the best play I've ever seen, but the costumes and the music, of course, were great. The actors did a superb job and it was just a nice way to relax and see something different for a change.
Anyway, by the time we were ready to pick-up Natasha from my parents', it was raining cats and dogs outside. One minute the weather was nice and warm, and the next this sudden wind appeared followed by little rain drops, and then all blown pouring. It was horrible. And to make it worse, the bus from the subway to my parents' place was late and we had to wait close to 30 minutes in this pathetic weather. Oh, and did I mention we only had t-shirts on?? Oh... and did I also mention we left the plastic rain-cover for the stroller at home??
So by the time we reached my parents' place it was 7pm and we were soaked. Totally. The next step was to figure out how to get Natasha home without getting her wet and cranky. Initially we thought to wait the rain out but the news forecast predicted rain for the remainder of the evening and through the night, so we had to think of plan B. And that was for my father to make the 10 minute drive to our apartment building, get the car seat, and bring it back. And so Matthew and my father ended up doing that, so finally we were able to get driven home. Poor Natasha was exhausted by the time we reached our apartment and 2 jars of squash later was deep asleep!
So that's how we spent our Sunday.
