Anniversary Trip

My husband and I usually like to get away without the kids once a year around our anniversary. This year we stayed in downtown Toronto for three nights. Our hotel room had been recently renovated with modern brown and white furnishings, a bowl sink and large shower stall in place of a tub, a 42" plasma T.V. and an I-POD docking station on the clock radio (not that either one of us has an I-POD).
It also had a king sized bed. The good thing about sleeping in a king sized bed is that you can sleep all night and never touch anyone. And the bad thing about sleeping in a king sized bed is that you can sleep all night and never touch anyone. My husband says we'll never get a king-sized bed for our house.
We ate at a variety of places, including a hot dog vendor, Dunn's Famous Deli, Shawarma King, for falafel and tabouli, Big Daddy's Crab Shack for crabcakes,lobster, king crab, scallops, shrimp and catfish,(Yum) and Bistro 333 for steak and salmon.
We attended a Toronto FC soccer game against Montreal Impact. This was my second game and his third. It's impossible to get regular season tickets. It's incredibly popular, more than they anticipated. It was an exciting game and we had great seats, but the game ended in a tie, which meant that Montreal advanced in the Champions League. It was the only time in all our 22 years that my husband and I wore matching clothes, but then, we matched most of the people in BMO field as well.
The fans who sit on the south side are known as the Red Patch Boys and they stand throughout the game. They chant,"This is our house!" They are very loyal, but they're not very good sports. They throw things on the field, like a shower of streamers on the opposing side player when he's trying to take a corner kick. They shouldn't allow that. They don't allow it in the English or German leagues. The longer they let them get away with stuff like that, it will just embolden them to be even rowdier, and there'll soon be Hooliganism, and people won't want to bring their families there.
If a player from the other team goes down, they chant, "Dig a hole, and bury him."
One funny thing that happened: in the first few minutes of the game, a player from Montreal kicked the ball and his shoe came off. They began chanting, "Tie your shoe up."
The weather wasn't great, lots of rain, thunder and lightning, so we didn't go to Shakespeare in the Park as planned. We would have gone the next night, but the MLS All-stars were playing against West Ham United, and soccer trumps Shakespeare every time. We couldn't get tickets to that (I love West Ham almost as much as Aston Villa) so we stayed in and watched the game on the big screen and then went out for dinner afterwards. The All-Stars won 3-2 and a Scarborough native, DeRosario scored the winning goal.
We shopped at the Eaton Centre, and of course, spent a few hours in the World's Biggest Bookstore, feeding my addiction with 2, no 4, okay, 6 new books. My husband even bought one and read it while we were away.
It was nice to sleep in and spend time together as a couple. We love our kids, and we like them, too, but we plan on being a happily married couple long after they've moved out.