Every year Toronto has a Christmas Parade and since this year I was in the vicinity I decided to go and check it out. If I'm to be honest, I was a little disappointed with the actual Parade. I thought it would be really festive and Christmassy but instead it was overly commercialised with the majority of the Parade having very little to do with Christmas. That's not to say I didn't have fun. In fact I had a great time it just wasn't really because of an amazing Parade. What was amazing was being out in the city with friends and having a break from studying, oh and getting our photo taken with an actual Mountie!! The best thing though was before the Parade (it was running very late do there was a lot of, before the Parade) when we sitting on the curb of the road guarding our great spot from which to view the Parade and watching all the children get excited about the parade. Now, normally when things are running late children get tired of waiting and become fidgety and start complaining. But not here. No here they were running around in the street playing games with each other. Many of the children had brought chalk and were drawing and writing in the road. We saw many a wish list for Santa to read as he passed. It got the point where Tanya and I couldn't take it anymore, as children still at heart we wanted to draw on the road in chalk so we asked a girl if we could borrow her chalk (she kindly allowed us to) and drew our own message on a street in downtown Toronto.
Here are a selection on photos from the Parade:
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