Blogs from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 10

Geo: 43.6485, -79.3854The length of our stay in Toronto was heavily reliant on the efficiency of the Ontario Health Care system which is why we went from a plan of 3 months to a reality of 6 months. In that time my slightly broken DH had multiple root canal and crazy-glue procedures on her teeth, rehabilitated a sciatica, had a steroid injection in her hip to provide pain relief for a torn groin meniscus, and underwent knee surgery for a different torn meniscus. All of this included many physiotherapy sessions, copious massages, endless visits to chiropractors, countless ice packs, a little bit of acupuncture, and the somewhat questionable use of a laser stun gun. But given the magic of modern medicine and her own perseverance, DH has been cleared for travel although one small duffle bag ... read more

Today, was an interesting and chaotic travel day as we head back home to Toronto. Early in the morning we took the train from Atocha Station to the Madrid Airport. However, when we reached the airport, we did not realize our flight Terminal was located a fair distance away from the airport train station. We had to take an airport transfer bus that took almost 20 minutes to get to our terminal. It even had to take the highway to get there. We were starting to freak out a bit but we did leave 3 hours early to account for unexpected challenges. We finally arrived at the right terminal where we proceeded to the long queue to check in our luggage. When our luggage was checked in we found out that Renata was randomly chosen to ... read more

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Tired and ready to board our flight to Hong Kong Getting excited... read more

Rained nearly all the way of the 5 hour drive into Toronto.. just stopped before entering the Downtown..sooo excited to see our American friends who have driven and flown in for the weekend...Blake and Suzy from Lafayette Louisiana and Tim and Deb driving up from Detroit (about 5 hours).. they all arrived Friday and we arrived 3.00p.m. Saturday... we were a bit late leaving Morrisburg as during the night we learnt that Vonnie (John's Mum) had passed and had a few phone calls and emails to send. As previously planned she would be cremated ASAP and then we would have a memorial service in Nambour when family could be together, so we are continuing on our holiday and coming home as planned. It was a breath of fresh air catching up with everyone in Toronto, staying ... read more