Started the day with a driving tour of Toronto. Saw the CN Tower, Lake Ontario, lots of other bits and pieces. Stopped at the Distillery District, an area of old industrial buildings converted into trendy shops for trendy people with more money than sense. Found a bakery with pies, pasties and sausage rolls, which immediately puts Canada leagues ahead of America in my view.
Drove out to eastern Toronto, to the beaches. The beaches, of course, being the beaches of Lake Ontario. Lake Ontario is so huge I can't register it as a lake; lakes are meant to have a visible opposite shore, at least they do where I'm from. Anyway, had a nice stroll along the shore, then through a nice neighbourhood a bit like Norwood or Unley.
We drove back downtown to meet Kevin for Round 1 of the Japan Friends / Internet Friends Collision of Universes. We had a nice afternoon tea, then Scott and Kate went home and Kevin showed me around the uber-cool Kensington market. Kensington really is the funkiest neighbourhood I've ever seen - second-hand shops spilling out of the front of houses, cars painted with murals and full of shrubbery, and bands playing on the street just because they can. It's wonderful fun.
Walked with Kevin down Queen St to meet his partner Lauren, who was working at a convention / market for local artists - comics, posters, record covers, badges and such. Really neat. Ended the day with a dinner of awesome $3 burritos.
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