Sarah of Much

DAY OFF!!!

Yes, the infamous tour-day-off.  So excited to make your own choices for the day, have no schedule, no long drive, no need to hang around a club for hours on end. Yet, you’re paying for meals and a hotel and not making any cash that night. But, no long drive.

We spent our day of leisure in Toronto, the little apple, and did what we often do on our tour day-offs; bugger off on our own.  As much as we love to be together, being together is easier over a tour if you don’t spend every minute together. And TO has a lot for us to do on our own.  Since I (Glen) can’t tell you what everyone else did with their time, you get my play by play of the day. Abbreviated, maybe.

I started by following a tall and attractive girl in leather pants for two blocks down Queen St. I suspected that behind the shades it was Sarah Taylor, Much Music VJ.  She was taking her time, eating something, and I it took me about 4 store window reflections to convince myself it was her. Funny thing about ‘celebrity’… what do you really say to someone who is just a regular stranger to you, but you feel compelled to say something because they are ‘celebrity’? “I think you’re cool,” or in my case, all I could come up with was “i liked your hair better before.” Yeah, I kept my mouth shut and turned into Steve’s Music.

So I had three items on the agenda: Guitar pedal fix at Steve’s Music, Black Market, and Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF). Pedal was fixed, trip to the Hall successful, but no good buys at Black Market. I think I’m getting too choosy with my old school cowboy shirts. Or everyone else is buying the same thing. I keep kicking myself for not buying the perfect shirt they had there two years ago, and going back each visit, hoping. Robb and I were greatly annoyed by a beligerent but well-dressed drunk though, bent at a 45 degree angle and slurring words about the battalion and “touch my belt.” Thanks for the downtown experience, but no-thanks.

Worn out NHL jersey

I spent a couple of hours in the HHOF, one of my favorite stops. This time I took a lot of pictures on the phone, knowing someone back home who would enjoy them. Very little connects me to my boyhood like hockey; stats, records, photos – I was a sponge for that stuff growing up. Loved it. Did you know Mike Bossy had 9 consecutive 50 goal seasons? Shame he retired early. Did you also know that a new player like Steven Stamkos would need to record 20 consecutive 40 goal seasons (basically until the day he retires) to come close to breaking Gretzky’s goal record?

What else. Some of the guys had a great night at Casa Stanton, some of us had more corner dogs from Spadina/Queen, and some of us had a shot or two for Joe Bird. Nice day, Toronto.