Monday 25 February 2013

A few Christmas Morning Pics

Yeah, I know, I'm 2 months late but I wanted them up to document my Christmas morning..Only one of me as my eye was really bad, and don't mention my dreadful hair...It's cut now for which I am truly grateful...



                                          Christmas Eve Day in the Starbucks near Mom's Place


                                                 

                                                 Both in red so we look nice and festive!










                                           Mom opening her "Night before Christmas" book from 1956
                                           she has tons of books after years of collecting, but I like to find
                                           her that one "special" one every year. (Thanks to ebay!)


Mom and I at the Huntington's Fundraiser in Toronto

Mom and I hit a swanky Toronto Fundraider thanks to another great radio win. What a fun night! Mom loved all of the food stations--everything from Chinese noodles, to chicken panani's to cajun steak pieces. All kinds of yummy followed by a dessert table to die for. Chocolate covered strawberries, cookies, cake lollipops, brownies, the list goes on. They had silent auctions (no luck there) live auctions (tickets to a Taylor Swift concert complete with an overnight stay in Toronto went for $1400 dollars. (Nobody I know is worth that much!:-))

The best part was getting to play 21 scratched off my bucket list as we were given free gambling chips and had a whirl at the gambling tables without spending a penny. We pretty much broke even...:-)

In between all of the food/gambling/auctions they had free picture taking and circus acts dangling from the ceiling to keep us entertained. Fun night!




My Circus Look!






Mom and I hamming it up for the camera as we were getting ready for the night--we always end up having to take pics of ourselves because no one else is around:-)







The circus folk showing us how it's done!







Mom, making some "money" gambling--she did better than I did!

Monday 18 February 2013

Bay Street Christmas Displays meets the St. Michael's Choir...

We hit Bay Street to check out the Christmas window displays before the choir concert...LOVE these. The Hudson Bay Company does them up every year. Complete with beautiful colours and moving parts....sooo pretty makes me feel like a kid again!





Pretty colours aren't they???

Pictures of the boring kids' choir we saw later that night--music was all religious and not much fun. I guess we should have gotten a clue when it was the "St Michael's Children's Choir." Yup. Known world-wide and had an audience with the Pope. Opps!





Christmas Pictures--Better Late Then Never!

Yikes, I am falling behind on my journaling in a big way..It's been so cold here it's hard to do anything other than be a couch potato. Below are pics from Christmas (The Eaton's Centre in Toronto) named after the now de-funked Eaton's store , I actually really loved their display this year---modern with an old-school charm...