Crazy travel

Well I'm sitting in the Delta Chelsea hotel on Gerrard st, Downtown Toronto, Canada. Yesterday we had a full day here with wendy's Aunt, Rosemary. We had breakfast at the hotel, note to self this is expensive. As ever we over ordered again. Then we wandered through the area there is a huge mall here with a cool display of Canada geese that look like they are flying through it. We tried to go to the CN Tower but there was a 1.5 hr wait and it was getting to lunch time so we wandered back to a pub via the street vendors. Waitresses had the shortest skirts, micro, was a sight to see. Finally had Buffalo wings. Next we booked for the Hippo tour which is a bus which goes around the city then into the lake! Henry fell straight asleep on the tour but Wendy and I liked it. Bella did a running commentary the whole trip, non stop and sang. She has started singing all the time about anything. That's the Steiner training I think? Poor Henry has to walk everywhere but we got a $19.99 buggy in NY for Bella so she gets to sleep still. Hen does get very tired with all the going around. We are going to need to find some balance between seeing lots of stuff and letting the kids have a quiet time during the day too. Part of this trip is just to be around the children together rather than working and being seperate.

We got into Toronto on Saturday midday from Montreal via VIA rail. Very comfortable train journey with access to power for laptops, (It's everywhere now, planes, trains and automobiles). Went out Sat night to Bryce Wylde's house in North East Toronto. He's now a leading Naturopathic Dr in Canada. Last time I saw him he was studying towards this in 1997. It was so good to catch up. I am left thinking I wish we'd left more time for Canada. It has been quite a rush from NY on the train to Montreal then to here and now we're off to Frankfurt today and then Venice tomorrow. A big day. Hopefully the children will sleep well on the plane.

We'll be on the bus in about an hour then leave at 5pm and arrive 7am Frankfurt local time (midnight here time) then have midnight snack/morning tea with Andreas from Germany (friend of Wendy's from NY). I'm going to take meds before flying to help me sleep. No coffee for me until we get to Frankfurt. Might even give some to Henry there! I thought the travel would be less tiring but a new city every couple of days is not the way to do it. I'm looking forward to staying in one place for a little while in Europe. Maybe we'll go stay with the Zettinigs in Austria. We have a flight booked to Paris from Venice but we could just forget that if we can tag along with the Euros and get a free place to stay. After that we may work our way up to Andreas in Nuremburg or over to France. We don't have much booked until we fly out on 15th Jan from Rome so can make it up.

I'd really like to get to Morocco and some of the countries with different cultures to ours, less developed but with the children we need to consider safety so check out the place carefully first.

Anyway catch up soon in Europe! Wahoo