Fun in the big Smoke

Well...what a weekend!!!

Saturday morning we took off to Toronto with the Martin's for a weekend filled a fun for the kiddies. For Jaxon, this was a weekend away for his birthday.

We stayed at the Sheraton Hotel in down town Toronto, and arrived there about 10:45. It was too early to check in to our hotel so we parked there and got loaded for our day at Centerville.

We walked down to the ferry, hitched a ride over to the island, and arrived around noon. What a great place. If you have small children and are looking for something to do with them is summer, this is a great place to take them. They had rides for everyone....from the train ride around the park, to the big log water slide. It was awesome. I was not too sure what Jaxon would think about it, and what he might do on the rides, but all in all it worked out good.

When we got there we thought we better take get some lunch into use before we went on the rides so we had some pizza and then the kids and their dad's took a ride on the train to see what the park all had to offer. Jaxon was not at all sure if he wanted to go on the train, but once his dad and him got on, and seated, he really enjoyed it. We pretty much hit up everything that the kids could do and once we did the whole park they got to choose to go back to the rides they wanted to do again. After standing in the lines for the little fire trucks (they ride on their own) Jaxon decided that he did not want to go on it, and when we got to the pony rides...he did the same. Oh well. I think that if we did it next year, he would love everything and would not hesitate to do anything.

Around 5:30 we headed back to the docks to catch the ferry back to the city and got back to our hotel around 6:30. We got checked into our rooms, and headed out for dinner. There was a Keg just down the street from where we were staying, so we decided to eat there. Thank god we got a table in the back corner of the bar part of the restaurant because we had 2 kids (well, mine in particulate) that had had little to no sleep for the day, and were wired!!! There were no tears, or upset children...just one that was way too happy/climb all over the table/floor/people, and did not want to sit if his life depended on it. Oh well, it could have been worse especially since there was no sleep to be had all day.

We got back to the hotel, took in the pool for a little late night dip, and then tried to get the kids to sleep. I was not sure how this was going to go, but as soon as I laid down next to Jaxon, and pretended to sleep, he was out. I have never seen a kid crash as fast/hard as he did. It was latterly 30 sec. and he was sleeping. I soon followed suit and shut my eyes.

Yesterday we woke up and puttered around the hotel, sent the guys and kids out to get us coffee, got packed up, and checked out. We were going to the Jay's game, so we had a little time to kill, and were only a couple of blocks away from the Eaton's Centre so we decided to go and do some shopping. We took the kids to the Disney store and Jaxon got to pick out a toy for his Birthday. He decided that he would get a Mickey car and figurine, and loved it. I was going to wrap it up for him to open on his birthday, but he wanted it right then and there, so sorry buddy...but there is no present to open on the 19th.

After a quick trip around the mall it was time to head to the Jay's game. We wanted to get there and get a bite to eat and to our seat before the game started. It was kind of a boring game...until the final few inning were the pitcher was going for a no hitter. Unfortunately the second last batter did manage to get a hit off of him, but it turned out to be a pretty interesting finish. Curt and some guy fought over a fly ball that was hit to us, and in the end the guy did give it to Jaxon. Hadleigh and Rob made it on the jumbotraun, so it was one heck of a day.

We did not even get out of the Roger's centre before both kids were K.O'd. It was a good thing that it was a good walk back to the hotel to get our car so they managed to have a good little nape before we had to wake them to get them loaded into the car.

It was a great weekend. Family fun at it's finest. Those kinds of weekends are what I truly remember about my childhood, and I hope that Jaxon will have the same memories when he is growing up. I cherish all the time that I get to spend with my little man, and to be able to do stuff with him like we did this weekend is amazing and we are very lucky.