Dirty Dancing

For my birthday this year, Graham gave me tickets to Dirty Dancing at the Royal Alexandria Theatre in Toronto. What trip to Toronto would be complete without a stop at Ryan & Deb's and an opportunity to spend some time with our grandchildren. (We really do enjoy you guys as well, Ryan & Deb, but, the grandchildren do hold a special appeal).
Despite the cold weather, we spent time out on the front porch "blowing Bubbles" - an activity that I have not enjoyed since my own children were small.
Deb and Alexandra came out to watch.
Austin actually spent more time chasing Nana's buubles than he did making his own.


After a delicious
dinner of
cheeseburgers
(Gramps' favourite) and homemade pumpkin pie (Deb's very first attempt at making a pie and it was delicious), we headed for downtown Toronto and the Royal Alexandria Theatre. We had amazing seats for the performance - any closer and we would have ended up with sore necks from constantly looking up at the stage instead of straight ahead. We were almost exactly at the centre of the stage -

couldn't have asked for anything better! The show was amazing - full of energy and song - we had both forgotten how much we had enjoyed the movie - wecertainly enjoyed the stage production.
The only downside to our evening - we come form a city where after 6:00 on Saturdays you do not have to worry about parking meters - the parking is free. Unfortunately the laws a a little different in Toronto. We amanaged to find a wonderful parking spot, on the street between the Royal Alexandria Theatre and the Princess of Wales Theatre. Seeing no "No Parking" signs, we thought that we were safe - NOT!!!!! Apparently, the metres are centralized and up the street a ways where we couldn't see them. We came back to the car after the performance to find a $30.00 ticket neatly tucked under our windshield wiper for "fail to display receipt in windshield". Live and learn!