Parties and sheep

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Having a little one is always searching for the perfect balance. After a few week(end)s of parties, birthdays and dinners it was time for a more child friendly program for last weekend. Although I doubt whether she notices the difference! Toronto has hundreds of parks, one of them is Riverdale Farm which represents a 19th century Ontario farm and reminds me of the Dutch ‘kinderboerderij’ haha. Anyway, it’s kind of a normal park but with some animals like sheep, goats and chickens. We pretended that a three (and a half) month old baby would love to see this. Funny enough she fell asleep almost immediately after we entered the park…

The icing on the cake was the Santa Claus Parade this Sunday. Yes, sounds familiar: last year we went to watch the Parade as well.  But this year we managed to see Santa whoop whoop! Together with our Dutch friends we cheered as true Torontonians… What a weekend!

Happy Halloween!

What to do with your Halloween pumpkin after the big night’s over? In Toronto they’ve found an answer for that: Pumpkin Parades on November 1st throughout the city! Everybody brings their pumpkin to a park or a road near their home, and gives it the opportunity to shine one more time. The idea has started in Sorauren Park, where the biggest annual Parade still takes place. But lucky us.. on the way to our dinner party at THR & Co. (thrandco.com, great restaurant!) we’ve enjoyed many unique pumpkins on Harbord Street. My personal favourite: a tiger pumpkin LOL. But the ultimate winner was of course… Mommy’s little pumpkin!!!

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