Lovely Weekend

This past weekend was lovely with great weather. We finished moving L into her university dwelling (finally). She won't actually be there until just before school starts next week as she will be with her boyfriend and his family over the upcoming long Labour Day weekend. We'll say our sad goodbyes tomorrow. There are so many families doing the same thing, some of them will be first year students and I feel their pain. On the one hand you are happy for them but on the other... A friend of mine told me she cried every single year of her son's 4 years away at school! It doesn't get any easier. L is entering her 3rd year. Then I was reading a lovely article in the newspaper where this TV personality Jeanne Beker is really sad because it seems that after university, then they can really move on (away)! It's something to consider.  L is always out even when she's home anyway.

At any rate, life does go on.  L was busy so M, K and I  decided to attend the Toronto Buskerfest 2012 downtown this past Sunday.  It was being held over the entire weekend and they closed a couple of streets.  It was colourful and entertaining and we had a great time although it was very crowded as the day wore on.  They only asked for a voluntary donation as you enter, to fund epilepsy.  Here are a few photos I took for you:

We caught this great act above. The girl atop the man on the unicycle was actually just picked out of the crowd! The performer was very entertaining, funny and even charismatic.  He even had her boyfriend come out of the audience with a surprise act. We ended up dropping some money into his basket.

They had a lot of shopping and food carts with all kinds of wonderful food.  There was even a Hawaiian shave ice stand, but unfortunately it was closed at the time.  I would have loved to try it.  We did some sampling and finished with a yummy funnel cake, icing sugar only.

In this recent article about the buskers,  most of them say the best part of their job is making people happy!