Visitors From New Brunswick

Doris has few of her friends still living as she just turned 96. She has however one sister in law who has been a long time friend and a person who became a regular hostess for Doris as she visited her on a regular basis for years. Polly came to visit us two years ago and as Doris was unable to travel to N.B. this year she decided to come up for a weeks visit.

one thing that was special this year was the mode of travel to our area. Polly and her daughter travelled by Porter Air and landed at the Toronto Island Airport. This enabled them to get a birds eye view of the city and to travel to the mainland on one of the world's shortest ferry rides. The crossing is just over a hundred meters.

They were met at the airport by Theresa and escorted to the curbside where I picked them up. The amazement expressed by the passengers over the development of condos along the shoreline surprised me as we saw the changes over the years but they seeing this for the first time must have been a great experience.

Every new sight along the way home to our house required Polly to say, " my golly ,can you believe that? ". We smiled and realized that they were going to love their time with us here in Upper Canada. There is something absolutely unreal about the tremendous changes that have been made along the shores of Lake Ontario. The Royal York Hotel used to be the signature building on the skyline and now it is dwarfed by a multitude of skyscrapers which block the view for  most of the people to seeing the beautiful lake.

Polly and Doris and others will have a week  of telling stories from the past, looking at pictures and just enjoying each others company.We will be bystanders in a ritual enacted over and over when old friends meet .