Over the last decade, Mater and Pater have spent so much time encouraging social interaction in our Avocado Juniors, and then, bam, along comes a pandemic that insists on isolation. Since March, hanging out with friends and family has gone the way of the dodo. Suddenly, we had to come up with new, insular ways to fill that 48 hour period called the weekend. And if earlier this year Maters and Paters across the world were scratching their heads for ideas on how to entertain their children, they're now creating deep furrows in their skulls as Fall begins (and shuddering with fear on what to do in the Winter). Admittedly, some of our ideas have been a little odd, like spending a Saturday night hanging out in a pharmacy for over an hour as we waited for flu shots (never have we spent so much energy examining each and every aisle for a source of distraction):
Highlight of that particular fun night out was when AJ1 noticed the name of the street of the pharmacy...
Thankfully the unseasonably warm weather this year, has meant some of our outings having been more conventional and allowed us to experience the true beauty of Toronto in the Fall. Starting with our annual apple picking trip...
...then a hike along the leaf-strewn trails of Toronto...
But perhaps the highlight of our Fall sojourns was watching the annual salmon run. Pater has been in Toronto for 12 years and has never heard of this and even when he did this month for the first time, would not have believed it if he hadn't seen it. Who would have imagined it possible to live in a city where you can watch salmon migrate upstream, jumping up small waterfalls, all in order to lay their eggs in the shallows before winter settles! Not the remote rivers of Canada, Scotland or Norway but a city!!! What an amazing feat of nature and how wonderfully remarkable to be able to view it within an urban jungle. And you Avocado Juniors, as well as hundred of Torontonians, thought so too!
Okay, so how exactly do you beat something as amazing as that? Salmon literally killing themselves to get from the Great Lakes to their breeding grounds upstream! Impossible. So Pater didn't try. Go big or go home? Pater went home!
And if, during all this backyard tomfoolery, Pater happened to also get his garden cleaned up for the winter, then so much the better...
COVID has caused a lot of disruption in our lives, but the Avocado Hasses aren't going to let a global pandemic crimp our style when it comes to the Canadian Fall!!!
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