WIGSF Visits Toronto

Right now, one of my cousins (Tonio) from Italy is over here with his wife (K) on vacation. Two days ago, I took much of the work day off to show them around. There was just one little snag, they don’t know English and I don’t know Italian. Amazingly, we were able to communicate pretty well most of the day. Making jokes about my father is pretty much the same in every language.

I picked them up at my aunt’s place in Oak Ridges around 11:00AM and asked them where the want to go. Their answer “La chita!” The city. So down we went to the city.

Driving in from the west end, through the fog, my cousin spotted the CN Tower. We stopped there and went up to the observation deck. On a foggy day, you can’t see a damn thing. We could barely see the ground through the glass floor.

We had lunch in the tower then we walked upto Queen Street West to do some shopping. They both seemed rather interested in two things: 1) arts and trinkets with a first nations motif; and 2) tattoos.

While in the tattoo parlour, my cell phone rang. It was my father. He wanted to know what I was doing with my guests and whether or not they were having a good time. I said “Oh, we’re at a tattoo parlour.”

“What! Who’s getting a tattoo?” Said the man who got his tattoo only a year ago.

“Nobody Dad, they’re booked solid for the rest of the day.”

“Pheww.”

I don’t know what the big deal is. Between the two of them, they’ve got five tattoos already.

Well, that was my day in the city with my relatives. Here’s a couple of photos taken at the base of the CN Tower.

Tonio picking the nose of a buffalo. Apparently they don’t have buffalo snot in Italy.

K hanging out with a bear mountie. (How large a horse do those bear mounties have to ride?)

Tags: Photography?, Travel