Santa Claus Parade Toronto | Toronto Diaries

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 19^th 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!

After Thanksgiving and Halloween now it’s time for Christmas!! Christmas already? YES! Last Sunday more than a half million people in Toronto enjoyed the famous Santa Clause Parade.

It is clear the winter has arrived… Not because it’s snowing or freezing cold (I love the big Christmas tree in the city setting of against the clear blue sky, HOW BIZARRE IS THAT), but because of all the seasonal closings! Since the time I got here, step-by-step everything closes for the season: cafes and restaurants on the Toronto Islands, café terraces along the Harbourfront and downtown, and even a part of the Toronto Zoo! (I was really looking forward to meet my new favourite animal: the moose! Fortunately, there was my old pal: the zebra hehe).

Thank God we have the PATH (torontopath.com)! The PATH is huge network of pedestrian tunnels beneath the city centre. Here you can find a great number of shops and restaurants. There are more than fifty buildings connected with the PATH, varying from office towers to subway stations. Here you can enter or leave the underground complex. And I’m a lucky person; I can enter the PATH without leaving our building… Let the winter begin!