Blauws in Toronto

We spent this past weekend in Toronto with all the Blauws (Len's 2 sisters and their husbands) as a celebration for Len's 6oth birthday. We started off at a Detroit Tigers ballgame last Thursday--beautiful day, great game, but sadly they lost, 3-1 in the 10th inning.

It was Magglio Ordonez cap day at the park

The next day we visited the lovely Royal Botanical Gardens near Hamilton and in the evening enjoyed the Royal Ontario Museum. The featured exhibit was "Ancient Peru," featuring artifacts from royal tombs of the ancient Sican culture of Peru. The gold jewelry and other decorations were especially beautiful and astonishingly detailed.

Beauties at the Gardens

Photo from the ROM website of some of the Peruvian goldwork

Saturday we went to the Canadian National Exhibition--highlights included a human cannonball (the world record-holder in fact) and an ice show featuring music from Broadway. "The Ex" takes place every year during the last 2 weeks of August, ending with a fabulous airshow over the Labor Day holiday. It is the largest annual fair in Canada and the fifth largest in North America. There's a midway, farm animals, dog and cat shows, arts and crafts and food booths. And people watching of course.


Dinner at the Madison Pub (Morris and Alice, great recommendation!)


The Human Cannonball