June 29 Toronto

Woke up at 6:00AM made coffee. Rita was out a few minutes later. View from 410 Queens Quay #1403, our Airbnb.

 

 

Left the condo around 11:00AM and walked to the CN Tower to get our hop on hop off tickets. The Email they sent when I purchased the tickets did not have a bar code or QR Code. The ticket agent had to phone to head office to get everything straightened out. Eventually it was and we went around Toronto, without getting off. I sat on the upper deck, to take pictures, Rita on the bottom to avoid the sun and the wind.

Got off the bus at CN Tower and stopped, on the way home, at Sobeys to buy Hungarian Peppers, Hungarian Sausages, Pizza etc. Then we bought 2 Bottles of Black Cellar Shiraz Cabernet Blend 19.

When we arrived back to the Condo, around 2:15, Rita phoned Dean to see where the statue unveiling was taking place. Just as Dean finished saying that it was at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, the phone went dead. Programmed the GPS and left for the Cemetery. Mount Pleasant is 200 acres, and we were wondering how we were going to find the location of the unveiling. No problem. Parked the car, in the parking lot, and we were shuttled from the lot to the site. Dean had reserved VIP seats in the front row, under a tent, for us. We soon discovered it's not so great being VIP's. The front row was in the scorching sun. The lesser folk sat in the shade under the tent, or stood in the shade of the trees.

It was a short ceremony, with an Honor Guard, and three speeches. The last to speak was Dean. "Undaunted" is the only statue in the whole cemetery.

Didn't stay for the reception. Drove back to the Condo. On the way, Rita kept saying she needed to go to a Shoppers Drug Mart tomorrow to get some supplies. I thought great, another Boots experience, like in London, where we had to walk halfway across London to find a Boots store. Just as I was preparing to turn into our underground parking, lo and behold, there is a Shoppers Drug Mart just outside the front door to the condo.

Baked the Pizza, drank some wine. Couldn't get my Samsung Camera to work, and download the pictures I had taken, and of course, as I wrote before, I forgot to bring the wire to download the videos from the video camera. The battery went dead on the video camera, near the end of the ceremony, so I had to switch to the Canon.

Tried the Samsung later in the evening, worked just fine. Joy. Saved $1000.00. Then of course, when Rita goes to Shoppers Drug Mart tomorrow, the joy will be over.