The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow!
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Yesterday, I took my goddaughter Kimberly into Toronto to see Annie. It was the first musical I ever saw and I remember watching the video (starring Carol Burnett as Mrs. Hannigan) over and over again until I'm sure that the tape wore out. She's 11, so she is older than when I first fell in love with Annie, her dog Sandy and Daddy Warbucks, but she had a good time.
We took the train into the city, which we almost missed but got there with just seconds to spare.
When we were downtown in November (to see the Radiocity Rockettes, who were making their Canadian debut), we went to Shopsy's, a famed local delicatessen. The restaurant faces the Hummingbird Centre, where we were able to catch the animal trainers walking the camels before the show. That was pretty exciting for Kimberly -- and for me! When do you ever see three camels walking along Front Street?!
Anyways, so yesterday we decided to go to Richtree Market, which is a little "market" with various stations (stir fry, pasta, soup and salad, sandwich, omelet, seafood, waffle, ice cream, drink, dessert, etc.) where you can custom order your meal. For example, at the stir fry station you can pick out what vegetables and meats you want in your stir fry, whether you want it with noodles or rice, what sauce you want and they cook it all in front of you.
When you are first seated, everyone is given their own Richtree Market card, which is the size of a credit card and whatever you order is added onto your card and swiped. When you check out, you pay the amount on your card. Firstly, Kimberly just felt so grown up with her own swipe card. She made sure that our cards weren't mixed up and when I went to get us our drinks, to be certain that her drink was swiped on her card and that mine was swiped on mine.
While we were on the train I had told Kimberly a little bit about Richtree. (Well, first I gave her a couple of dining options and she chose Richtree.) So when we got there she knew what to expect and had decided already that she wanted to visit the waffle and crepe station. As she was watching them make the waffles and crepes, she decided that that's what she would get: a crepe with strawberries and chocolate sauce, a side of whipped cream and vanilla ice cream, all topped with powdered sugar. (I told her that when she told her mom what she had for lunch, that maybe the part about the powdered sugar sprinkled on top of the whipped cream and ice cream could be downplayed. Perhaps she could tell her mom that there were lots of strawberries with some ice cream and whipped cream ...)
For me, the choice of lunch was harder. I wandered around for a bit and finally settled on something totally uninspired: pasta with vegetables and roasted chicken with a pesto sauce.
For drinks, we got little bottles of coke, which Kimberly just loved because it was so different from what she usually got, the cans or canettes.
The show itself was really fun. There were lots of little girls there all dressed up in beautiful dresses and gauzy skirts (that must be the new trend this year). There was even a little girl in a big pink tutu and a pink crown. In front of us (we had second row orchestra seats), there were two little boys in white shirts with vests and matching ties! The actors were really good in it, especially the little girl who played Molly, who was a teeny little thing (she was probably the youngest girl of all the orphans) but boy did she have a voice! And the actress who played Grace was just perfect, and the actress who played Mrs. Hannigan was hilarious.
Before the show started Kimberly and I went to the orchestra pit and watched the musicians practicing. She plays the guitar and likes music a lot so it was really cool for her to see the orchestra pit and all the various instruments like the cello and the trombone.
On the train ride home Kimberly was tired and fell asleep, but as we were driving home she said that she had a good day, which is all that I needed to hear!
We took the train into the city, which we almost missed but got there with just seconds to spare.
When we were downtown in November (to see the Radiocity Rockettes, who were making their Canadian debut), we went to Shopsy's, a famed local delicatessen. The restaurant faces the Hummingbird Centre, where we were able to catch the animal trainers walking the camels before the show. That was pretty exciting for Kimberly -- and for me! When do you ever see three camels walking along Front Street?!
Anyways, so yesterday we decided to go to Richtree Market, which is a little "market" with various stations (stir fry, pasta, soup and salad, sandwich, omelet, seafood, waffle, ice cream, drink, dessert, etc.) where you can custom order your meal. For example, at the stir fry station you can pick out what vegetables and meats you want in your stir fry, whether you want it with noodles or rice, what sauce you want and they cook it all in front of you.
When you are first seated, everyone is given their own Richtree Market card, which is the size of a credit card and whatever you order is added onto your card and swiped. When you check out, you pay the amount on your card. Firstly, Kimberly just felt so grown up with her own swipe card. She made sure that our cards weren't mixed up and when I went to get us our drinks, to be certain that her drink was swiped on her card and that mine was swiped on mine.
While we were on the train I had told Kimberly a little bit about Richtree. (Well, first I gave her a couple of dining options and she chose Richtree.) So when we got there she knew what to expect and had decided already that she wanted to visit the waffle and crepe station. As she was watching them make the waffles and crepes, she decided that that's what she would get: a crepe with strawberries and chocolate sauce, a side of whipped cream and vanilla ice cream, all topped with powdered sugar. (I told her that when she told her mom what she had for lunch, that maybe the part about the powdered sugar sprinkled on top of the whipped cream and ice cream could be downplayed. Perhaps she could tell her mom that there were lots of strawberries with some ice cream and whipped cream ...)
For me, the choice of lunch was harder. I wandered around for a bit and finally settled on something totally uninspired: pasta with vegetables and roasted chicken with a pesto sauce.
For drinks, we got little bottles of coke, which Kimberly just loved because it was so different from what she usually got, the cans or canettes.
The show itself was really fun. There were lots of little girls there all dressed up in beautiful dresses and gauzy skirts (that must be the new trend this year). There was even a little girl in a big pink tutu and a pink crown. In front of us (we had second row orchestra seats), there were two little boys in white shirts with vests and matching ties! The actors were really good in it, especially the little girl who played Molly, who was a teeny little thing (she was probably the youngest girl of all the orphans) but boy did she have a voice! And the actress who played Grace was just perfect, and the actress who played Mrs. Hannigan was hilarious.
Before the show started Kimberly and I went to the orchestra pit and watched the musicians practicing. She plays the guitar and likes music a lot so it was really cool for her to see the orchestra pit and all the various instruments like the cello and the trombone.
On the train ride home Kimberly was tired and fell asleep, but as we were driving home she said that she had a good day, which is all that I needed to hear!
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