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Summertime and a second Canada Day

Okay, I think this is so far the longest break between posts on my blog. Over the last half a year a lot has happened. To describe everything that happened in detail in the scope of this blog would be a rather hopeless endeavor. So I will stick to (or is it stick with?) the essentials.

Since Christmas in Germany the snow has come and gone a few times over in Toronto. Yesterday's Canada Day celebrations brought patio weather and so loads of people were out on the streets again. Many friends took the long weekend as a chance to travel. However, being still a little exhausted from the previous weekend that entailed a wedding in Germany I rather cherished to stay local.
So, after some research on Canada Day events it turned out that almost everything was family oriented, which is not that much fun if you don't have kids.

However, due to the recent move to a just as nice apartment as before (or a so called condo in North America) in better location there are now so many possibilities close by. One of them comes with the proximity to the Rogers Center (less than a 5 min foot walk).
For those who have never been to Toronto, the Rogers Center is a huge sports arena that hosts (among other events) baseball games.
I never had the chance to witness a baseball game previously. Opinions about this sport ranged from utterly boring to impressively strategic and skillful among all the people I talked to about it. Being as curious as I am, I was bound to check it out eventually. Anyway, having seen a match now on Friday I could see both the skill and strategy as well as the boredom.
The excitement in my own experience came from the actual and impressive sports arena, the show before and during the match and the fact that an hour before the match I had not yet considered going at all. Unfortunately, the Blue Jays (the Toronto team) lost in the very last inning after being in the lead the entire time.
Nevertheless, that event, the patio visit in great company, the visit of Mill St. in the Distillery District and renting out city bikes, so called Bixi bikes, made this an excellent day.

Okay, with that I'll sign off for today. Hopefully, it won't take me another 6 months to return with another post.

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