We had breakfast today at Tim Hortons down the street. this is more budget
friendly than the Hyatt. We had the breakfast biscuit which was good then we
each had an old fashioned glazed donut for desert. The donut was a treat. We
went to a Sinningia presentation this morning by the director of the Geneva
Botanical Gardens. Wow, a lot of this was over my head but this is the kind of
stuff I want to learn. After the lecture we gathered our stuff and headed out to
the Bata Shoe Museum. We got to the Spadina subwaay stop without any problem but
we had lots of trouble getting oriented walking around. First we started walking
the wrong way on Spadina then when we got turned around thanks to the help of a
passerby, we went the wrong way on Blaar. We walked quite a ways through a nice
retail section of shops and mostly restaurants and cafs. Once we got turned
around again we decided to get lunch. We found a Tim Hortonn on the corner and
split a Panini sandwich. After lunch we walked up the street to the museum. I
had a buy one get one free coupon so we paid for one Senior admissionn for $12.
The museum was very interesting. It traced the history of shoes via a timeline
from early man and then the greeks and Romans all the way to present times. A
special exhibit traced the development of sneakers to the present. I noted some
similarities of researchers mounting expeditions into far away places to
research foot wear. This is very similar to researching the origin of Sinningias
in the remote areas of Brazil. After the museum visit we stopped in Tim Hortons
for an Iced drink. Mine was Raspberry, Libbie's was Lemon. We went to dinner at
6:!5 in the lobby where we met everyone for the short walk to the CN Tower. We
shot up the elevator to 115 stories above Toronto where we had an incredibly
nice dinner in the revolving restaurant called 360. We each had a Cabernet and
then the Salmon over a bed of rice and other veggies. It was very good. Desert
was raspberry and blackberry compote with a cream and crunchy stuff. Very nice.
We sat with Jeff and Eva, Nancy and Jerry Kast and the Karrs, Nancy and Richard.
I took lots of pictures. Jerry next to me also had a Canon 7d. After dinner we
slowly walked back to the Hyuatt. The city had changed. There was a pretty
youthful crowd in the streets on a Saturday night, having dinner, going to the
theater, etc.