A ROM Trip

I like the idea of traditions, but trying to keep them up can be very difficult. We had this tradition of a yearly trip to the ROM on Labour Day weekend. Now that we live closer and have a ROM membership we go more often and going on Labour Day weekend doesn't have to happen, and can't always happen, but the tradition of it... I don't like ignoring it! And a week late, that isn't too bad?!

The girls and the subway/LRT - it's still such a novelty, they get such a kick out of it! We brought rocks with us and left them all over the place. Oh and funny thing, we didn't check the weather before we left. It was cold when we got downtown and so we made a stop at Roots on Bloor St. and got the girls their first roots sweatshirts. It's funny how much Roots clothing I've purchased for my sister's kids over the years, but never for my own!

Ken really wanted to see the classic horror movie poster display. It is a special exhibit - it's the private collection of Kirk Hammett who is the lead guitarist of Metallica. It was an interesting collection, presented in an interesting way. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would!

After that Fiona and I went to the kids area, and Kate, Ken and Alice checked out some other areas before joining us. We were a little disappointed that the kids area wasn't entirely open. There had been some flooding and there were huge bumps in the floor and one whole area was closed off. I'm not sure when we'll be at the ROM next, but I hope that they're able to make repairs!

We walked back over to the subway and I texted Andrew and he said, sure, come on over to the Keg, it isn't very busy right now. So after a snack, we went to the Keg over on York Street. 

On the way home the girls made up food names for each of the subway stations on the Bloor/Danforth line. It was funny. Sherbourne = sherbet, Chester = cheddar, Pape = pie. I can't remember them all, but Ken and the girls are so cute!