Overnight Getaway

We have not had an overnight getaway all season (if you do not count the weekends that we spent at the cottage), so when we had the opportunity to have a room at the Royal York for a night (free of charge) we jumped at it. We also had the chance to get two beds in the room, so we asked Matt and Jill if they would like to go with us. Our friend Luke lives in Toronto, so we thought that it would be a perfect opportunity to catch up with him as well.
We left early on Sunday morning (thank god we did because we ran into this marathon in down town Toronto, and we spend 1.5 hours driving in circles trying to get to a street that would get us to our hotel parking). We never managed to get there, but we got parked underground only a block away, and that was just fine with us after the frustration that we had gone through for the past hour and a half.
Once we got the car parked, we walked down to the hotel, and met up with Curt`s mom. We did not have much time to stay and visit with her, as we had set up a meeting time with Luke and Angelica of 11:30a.m. Basically all we did was go up to the room, drop our bags off, get some instructions, and then she had to go to the Convention Centre to meet Sid, so she walked with us. We met up with Luke and Angelica at our Gate at the Roger's Centre, and we went in to catch some batting practice before the game started.
We were at the ball game quite early, and by the time the actual game rolled around Jill and I were so tired, we could hardly keep our eyes open. Actually Jill had to shut her eyes a few times during the first couple of inning, and could only keep them open after I said to her....`Wouldn't it be hilarious if they caught you on the jumbo trane sleeping??' She didn't think that would be too funny, and decided that she better keep her peepers open.
After the game was done we walked over to Luke's apartment (he lives on the other side of the Garner Expressway, about a 5 minute walk from the Roger's Centre), and him and Angelica made us dinner. It was awsome.....they made Greek salad, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, garlic bread, and then we went up to the top of his apartment building, and bbq'd steak. It started to rain, but he managed to get it done, and it was AWSOME!!!!! Thanks again Luke and Angelica for the awsome meal.
After we were done dinner, Luke had to walk Angelica to the train station, as she had to get back to London, so we cleaned up, and sat around his apartment waiting for him to get back. When he got back, we had dessert, and it had stopped raining, so we went up to the roof to see all the city lights. He has an absolutely wonderful view of the city from the top of his building. From the one end of the building, you can see the island, from the other you can see the Roger's Centre, and the CN Tower, and all the buildings down town. It was a great view in the daylight, but all that much better when you could see the city all lit up.
We headed back to our hotel around 9, and went for a swim and to the hot tub, and then back up to our room. Jill and I were tired, so we decided that we were going to go to sleep, so the guys went to Jack Astors, which was right across the street from the hotel, and had a drink while they watched the end of the football game.
Yesterday we were woke up at 6:55 by the alarm at the hotel going off. We had a little blonde girl in our room that was freaking out. There was a voice that came over the p.a. system and told us that it was being investigated. Jill didn't trust them, so she went down to the lobby to investigate for herself, and the rest of us went back to bed. After about 20 minutes, they came on again, and told us that everything was back to normal, and Jill could finally relax.
We fell back to sleep for another couple of hours, and then decided to get up. We all got showered, and packed up, and left the hotel to see if the car was still where we parked. To our luck it was, and we were off. We went and had breakfast at a restaurant, and then stopped at IKEA to pick up a few things, and headed home.
It was a great night away, and it was nice to see Luke and Angelica, and see where Luke lived.