Toronto in the rain

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Wednesday the 17th of June and I am in a mini-van headed to Toronto airport for some arrivals of other vikings, Birte & Askjel, and their little one Inga.
Hard rain and a crazy driver make this interesting! Actually, Nessie is not that bad of a driver, , I just have to tease her a bit. Very focused.

They set up the big tent today, and the nice man delivered 4 refrigerators and got the electrical lines set for the food area.
I got to meet the neighbors (the lady of the house is named...Kay!....and they have two labs, one yellow and one black, and and older white and grey kitty, so I managed a little bit of kitty fix.
While the big feast is not going to happen this year, we should be able to get some things set and ready for next time.
I am still doing some cooking though mostly for the crew and site vikings.
I will be mondo busy Saturday, but I should have time to do a little weaving and magic.

They have some things I know up here, like Costco, and wally-land, and even fast foods. Wendy's up here uses a ,maple leaf for the apostrophe, I will try to get a picture. They are the, but not the same.
To semi-quote the BBC show, the Irish RM "things are done differently here."
I have one for Drury Lane, but I still have noy seen the muffin man. i'm keeping an eye out for him though.

They have a store here called Denninger's, it is a German market and they have many strange things. Mustards in dispenser tubes, and squeeze bottles of curry catsup. Dark Lindt chocolate bars made with chiles-shudder-I like the store, cool jars of strange delights, half of which I cannot read. Very German things, and two local papers auf Deutsche for me to practice with and make Nessie's mom laugh.
Nessies mom made wild blueberry spelt pancakes for breakfast, and I tried a bottle of tree sap I bought at the market-yummm! Ah heck, the wild berries are frozen fromB.C., but they were still most yummy. Nessie's mom makes yummy cakes, and I am talking bred with her in hopes of getting an apple cake recipie from her, mmmm crunchy sugar crust on the apples, yummy!
So I guess I have to bring some maply syrup home.
I think someone needs the curry squeezeee, and who knows what else I will find. Venison salami is interesting, but I don't think it will travel well for the return trip.
Any special requests, I know Suzanne wants syrup, how big a tin/bottle, or should I bring a sampler pack of several different small ones?
I have some pretty rocks from lake Ontario! Anyone? ;}