T.O. Trip Day Twelve. Last Day

I wake up this morning and I watch him do his routine of getting ready for work. I soak it in. It's my last day to do so. He's very handsome, I rarely get a chance to see a guy get ready for work in a suit, nicely polished and styling. But it's his spontaneous moments that make me smile, for example when we were at the Science Centre they have these buggy carts that drive about and can give people rides. Well when one drove right past us he started running for it to reach for it. It was SO cute! How he makes me smile. laugh . feel happy. *sigh* why I sighing?! .. I don't know really. I guess it's very rare for me to finally have come across a true gentlemen.

*smiles to myself*
I'm waiting for my upload to finish. as I share more of myself with the world.

My last day I'm visiting the ROM.

T.O. Trip Day Eleven . Gallery Row, Eatons Centre

I traveled around today first visiting a location I did not find on my first day of exploring on my own because I realized that it was further down then I had wanted to go. I street car down Spadina transferring cars and going down to Gallery Row, Queen Street West. Art + Design District. It was a bad day to hit it up since a lot of the galleries don't run on regular work hours, they are all opened near the end of the week. I think to myself maybe I should have done the research. I went into a couple of galleries any ways even if they were working on the displays for the next upcoming show. I don't care! I'm a fellow artist that's about to leave town. Though I must say I was intrigued and amused at what I did get a chance to see. I saw this one piece that just touched me, it was in the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery area where I saw this one work of art which when you look upon it is simply a display of spoons hanging from a spoon rack. You walk up and you realize the spoons have braille on them. A poem was written on these spoons in braille. This piece was called Love Spoons. I don't know personally why this touched me. I felt it's meaning before I can comprehend it at the moment. *smirk* Taste Love, I wonder how that is like. I carry on the rest of day walking down gallery row, snapping photos here and there. I make my way down to Eaton Centre. I get lost in The Bay. I was so big. So Very Very Big! I eventually find my way into the mall and I walk about it. Twice, just to get the feel of the mall. Everyone scrambling about to do their Christmas Shopping. I can't even think about Christmas this year, It's going to be so different. I'm going to spend it on my own for the first time in so long. I find my charm and soon after I head out and go to Canadian Tire for picture hanging strips for the other canvases that have yet to be hung. I explore one of my City walks maps soon after. Not before I head myself over the Yonge & Dundas Square to film a bit. I follow my map. I make my way down Victoria St. and I find myself walking by the Massey Theatre. Walk along and end up in St. Michael's Cathedral. Gorgeous. More than 160 years old. Why was I so compelled to go in? Michael is on my Angels whose day I was born on. I'm still looking for those charms. I walk about and make my way home just after I get to the Maple Leaf Gardens, I head on back to Yonge and Dundas and take the subway and street car home. I wait for Frankie for dinner but he ends up working late. I walk on over the Sobey's across the street and get myself something for dinner and enough for breakfast. Salads and cooked carrots. I eat alone :( but that's okay I know he's a hard worker. There's lots of stuff he needs to wrap up before heading out of town. While he was working away I was video editing a time lapse video of the painting I did while here in Toronto. He comes home, I tell him about my day and I show him the charm that I found. CN tower, ehh I was there. But I do find it really amazing how you just walk out to the streets from where I'm staying and just see it. Right there. In your face! He packs and around 11pm, I got him to paint with me. I have never painted a painting with anyone that wasn't with a teacher. I just asked him to spread around some black paint for the back drop of the art pieces that will go into his bedroom. He goes to bed at 12a. and I stay up to finish the painting. I finish it at 2:15am and wash up by 2:20am and head off to bed. On it I write. To: Frankie, Love SzeYun Lo.

T.O. Day Ten , The Incredible Charm Search

Well I decided today that I would explore more of my city walks cards. I did a matter of 3-4 of them in one go today. The harbourfront was one card and i spent the whole day. But today I we determined to do a bunch as I was willing to spend the money on the transportation. I go to the station and I wanted to get another weekly pass, cause I knew that i would be going all over the place. But they were all sold out. So I had to purchase some tickets. The man at the booth at Spadina Station was kinda soft spoken and didn't speak clearly to those who were trying to talk to him and he was trying to explain to them. I had to interpret for two different people what he was trying to say to them. -_- he was busy writing on his piece of paper with his marker what he needed to write. I just wanted to get to my first destination point of the day. Bloor Street West Village. This little strip just reminded me of an old style mall, it's what you would find in a little town and it's the equivalent to a Robson in a village. I did stop at the Green Mango for a bite to eat since I left the house eating nothing in the morning. I then walked by other destination that were recommended to stop at on the city walks but I just skipped by them. I walked the strip visiting shops here and there, taking everything in as the snow came gently down in the city. I come by a Christmas card that when I read it just made me think of Frankie. Why? on the front it said. "Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.” He does this regardless if I'm next to him and I heart him for it. It's strange... ahh blah. I didn't get the Christmas card. I move on and walk into a Chapters that used to be a theatre and I take some shots of what can be seen as the remains of this. I go in search of my charms and I hit up a nice little gourmet cookie bakery called The Sweet Flour. I get two cookies. A candy shop I wanted to go to was closed. :( sucks. I walk on, I take some pictures outside of a bakery and as mas who sees me as he approaches then smiles and asks me to take his picture. ♥ I do and I grow to love this city a little more. I head on down the street and back to they subway to make my way back towards the city again. I get off at Christie Station and walk down Bloor Street some more. I make my way through Korea town all the way down to Spadina and turning, I walk all the way to Kensington Market (where I picked up some earrings) through onto Chinatown. ( Trust me this is a long walk, I had spent enough on transportation ) I was however taking photos during this walk. I go onto some shops in Chinatown thinking I would find the Charm, I don't. Chinatown jewelers are hardcore in the sense that they only have gold and white gold. It's really strange. I do pick up a charm though, a little piggy to represent the year of the pig that I was born. I walk on down Spadina, I'm too tired to walk any more and Street Car down the street back home. I get home, upload my photos and laid down for a bit to rest as Frankie comes home from work. We head out to get him suited for a traditional East Indian wear for his friends upcoming wedding. I sneak a photo of him in the one he looks best in. He's all smiles as he looks at his fine self in the mirror. hahaha. *smiles* We then go for Pho, at pho 88 on Spadina and then we head on home to spray and put up the painting. We didn't get it all up, but tomorrow it will be up. And I may have to dedicate a full night to painting the one for the bedroom. Night world. Sweet dreams as I head off to bed now. That is my summary of the day.
What's happening tomorrow? My incredible charm search goes on. :D I'm so determined I'll be so upset if I don't find a Toronto Charm in Toronto.

T.O. Day 9. Wine Tasting, Niagara Falls

We make it a day trip to Niagara Falls. Before he we set out for the long drive, he gets his car washed. It was a long drive and along the way I wondered if this was going to be much on him. -_- . We get a bit lost along the way to a winery. A flock of little birds that were hundreds of them fly over us and as you can guess they pooped on his car. I got it on film as his disappointment as he was getting bombed by these little birds. I can't help but smile. I just new if we were going to drive under them it was just a big possibility they would poop on us. He gets a bit upset, saying it wasn't funny. We get lost. I now wonder if Circle Street is really in the shape of a circle as we went about on it. We eventually find our way to the Winery place Frankie was searching for and we head on in. I do a little wine tasting for the first time in my life. I've drank wine before, just never sampled them at an actual winery. I came to realize how pink rose wine is. Frankie buys 6 bottles as some for presents and such. I buy a bottle to bring back home since this shop was a little local winery and I'm pretty sure they don't ship and sell in Vancouver. We soon head out and towards Niagara Falls. As I got there I thought, wow it's cold. The wind was blowing and chilled our faces. Frankie bundles himself up and says he probably looks so gangster with his hood up and all, I think to myself he's so far from it it's cute. We get to Niagara Falls and I tell him how I thought it would be bigger. I said this probably on the fact that we were standing a ways away and was looking down on it. On the angle and distance you need to be from it to get the real sense on how big it really is. Maybe it's just me and I thought it would be twice as big as it already is. We walk about as we go in search for a Niagara Falls charm for my charm bracelet. If find one in the final souvenir shop out of 5 or so we go to. I end up with the I ♥ Niagara on it, Though I don't very much heart it, Frankie says you don't even notice I ♥ on it. which is true. The other ones were just, blah. We go for a bit of shopping at this outlet mall, I didn't end up getting anything though I was very much looking at a dress shirt in the Mexx store and a turtle neck in Danier Leather, though Frankie did all the shopping. We head on home soon after, I was falling asleep on the drive home. But it wasn't only me! Frankie was feeling a bit tired, and we were both hungry as we at the gas station to refuel, we soon head on over to Boston Pizza which was located next to it. He orders a soup and sandwich as I get wings. I was determined on this trip to just eat wings one night and that was the night. We get home around 7ish and I reset my charms on my charm bracelet so they are all evenly spaced since I just slapped them on everywhere when I first placed them in. I chat with cousin Jonny as I do this. Soon after he goes offline to eat dinner as I finish my charm bracelet and continue to paint again. To finish off the painting. Frankie watches anything series of UFC fights on TV. Frankie is about the head off the bed as I call him back out to look at the finished painting. His face lights up again as he looks at it. ♥ . He knows it was a lot of work. He's very excited to spray it and put it up on the wall. We head off to bed. He giggles last night and mocks me a bit before falling asleep. He asks me how big did I think it would be. I said, I didn't know just bigger. He said any bigger and it would be a black hole. I smile, cause he's right.

T.O. Trip Day 8. Science Centre

Body Works at the Toronto Science Centre, time flew by as we played about with everything. I realized it's bigger than I thought and it takes a full day dedication to see everything in there. In the science centre we actually got a chance to watch a cricket shed it's shell, it was really gross and entertaining at the same time. You know the kind of grossness that you can't turn away from. Ahhh, fun. We came home and he made Lasagna for dinner, he just popped it in the toaster oven and I make him eat some salad with me so he can get some greens. I work on the painting some more to make it wider from his request as he watches the UFC fight on the TV, I catch him as he falls asleep on the couch ♥ . I don't blame him we had a long day. After a little rest, we eat dinner and continue on with what we were doing that night. I was painting, he was watching the fight. :) I realize I'm very quiet lately, I guess I'm being very observant right now to my surroundings. @_@ I'm not as shy with strangers as I chat it up here and there when I go out, which means I'm opening up more. Can't complain about that.