Poor poor Grandma. She has to sleep next to the loudest buzz saw in the world. We could hear it from our bedroom and Grandad is above and over the other side of the house. Poor Grandma.
Saturday 7am - a time for snoozing, relaxing in bed, not getting up until you really have to. The Hamlet had others ideas for us today. The kids got up, Grandma got up. A lorry dropped off some very noisy things across the road. A neighbour was picked up and had to have the obligatory noisy chat before they drove off. The Canada Geese were practicing their maneuvers overhead and someone was shooting (hopefully not the geese). There was a chain saw, dog barking, crows cawing and all that was between 7am and 7:30am - aaarrrrgggghhhhhh.
Huffle wanted us all ready to go by 9:40 for us to get the bus to Toronto for a Blue Jays Game against the Stinky Tampa Bay Rays. We were early and got to the bus station in plenty of time. Grandad decided against wearing his smelly shoes (I don't know why, surely it wasn't the fact that I sprayed his shoes and his feet with fabreze and left the talcum powder next to him at breakfast). Huffle also packed our bag for the day and while he was in the pantry a box of Cornflour fell on his head. He had a lovely white blob on his head (he tried to keep it a secret but Grandad told me).
The bus was packed full and we were lucky to get on at the first stop (no-one else on). Sometime later, we arrived in Toronto and headed for the Gelato Shop. Between us we had the following flavours:- stratiatella, key lime pie, butter pecan, chocolate, peach yoghurt. We sat Grandma and Grandad on the big red Adirondack chairs while the boys and I played on the wave bridge.
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Grandad took a liking to the cat and dog statues.
On the way to the stadium, Grandad was up front of everyone else and Smallest asked him why. Grandad told him he was in training do his walking football back home. Grandad told him to call him Speedy Gonzalez. Smallest apparently looked at him and said "in your dreams". Inside the stadium, the boys did their games and won a placemat and a water bottle, Huffle, Grandad and I signed up as designated drivers (to enter to win a lawnmower - we didn't though which is probably good because you can't take a lawnmower on a busy bus), and we found our seats. Today we were up high in the nose bleed seats but the roof was open and we were sat in the shade for the entire game which was a little cool but we saw a few people who had sunburn!!!!
When we arrived we were given 'Rally Towels' in fact we all had one. I thought they were cloths for cleaning but it seems they were for 'rallying the team'. It was a fabulous spectacle when the whole stadium waved their rally towels. Grandma was quite British with hers and just waggled it slightly. She also said 'gosh' when one of the Blue Jays missed a catch. One of the funniest moments was us all waving our 'rally towels' to the tune of Ra Ra Rasputin.
The final score was 10-8 and we had 4 home runs - it was very exciting and enjoyable. Smallest didn't get bored today, though we did have a small break to play his game again and he won a key ring which is what he wanted. He also had a play book and crayons with various things to do in it. We had a bag full of goodies to eat which we dipped into at regular intervals as we missed our lunch.
For dinner we went to a new restaurant we haven't been to before and we probably won't go back. Smallest had a margarita pizza (which our waitress recommended), I had Arancia Risotto Balls in a spicy tomato sauce with salad, Huffle had pasta, Grandma had Lamb with Farro and Grandad had Berkshire Pork. Smallest couldn't eat his pizza as it was too spicy and when Huffle told the waitress she said "no one has ever complained before and kids eat it all the time. It is not spicy, maybe there is a bit of pepper on it". I tried it and told her it was definitely spicy, in fact it was hotter than my advertised spicy sauce. She said she would look into it and came back several times to fill water and take away plates without saying anything. We just got more annoyed. Huffle gave Smallest his dinner and Huffle tried to eat the pizza but couldn't finish it. The waitress came back and told us she was giving Smallest a dessert for free as she knew he didn't like his pizza and asked if we all wanted to see the dessert menu. We told her none of us wanted dessert and we didn't want Smallest to have any either and she went off to get the bill. Huffle was ready to give her NO TIP until she told us she had taken the pizza off as it did appear that the kitchen had used a hot sauce instead of the regular sauce!!!! Oh dear!!
We walked back to the bus and through the throng of Hockey supporters. The city was full of Blue Jays, Maple Leafs and the Toronto Football Club supporters. Eventually we got on our bus to come back home. Small and Grandma played 'Who am I?', Grandad and Smallest also played and we heard Smallest say that Grandad was Red Rump - funny! The sky was amazing as the sun was going down.
*the bus depot steward asked us all to move forward in our queue for the bus and said "please step up to the yellow box". Of course, we were being silly and we tried to all get in it (except that it was occupied by a Chinese man).
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