Welcome to Michael's Scribble Picnic, the theme is 'My Place'. I decided to do a greeting card in acrylic (4 1/4" x 5 1/2"). It features Ontario Place in Toronto, an old waterpark built in the 70's on 3 artificial islands. My young family at the time spent many wonderful times there, the kids even went there on school trips or with their friends.
One memory is when my daughter who was on a school trip forgot her favourite swimsuit in a washroom and my husband drove all the way downtown to fetch it the next day. It was still there on a hook in the stall.
Another memory is when we were stuck coming out of the park on a sudden province wide power outage which clogged the roads. It was the Northeast blackout of 2003 Aug 14, 2003 which affected parts of the US as well, one of those events where you remember what you were doing at the time. Daughter L remembers it took us 6 hours to get home that night, she could only have been 8 years old. She remembers me worrying about us running out of gas which sounds just like me. Husband M now says we had plenty (1/4 tank). The outage lasted at least a couple of days. I wasn't worried as it was in the summertime, not freezing weather, and I thought we could always barbecue our food if we needed to as we had an electric oven. But of course daughter L says I gave her cold canned ravioli and told her it was cooked and safe to eat.
Ontario Place is at a point now where it either has to be revitalized or torn down. Residents are in favour of having it revitalized, it was such a beautifully landscaped facility.
The big sphere in the painting is an IMAX movie theatre which was re-opened in 2017.
