Taking Attendance

The Stroller Squad.


Follow the Leader!


Awaiting Part 2 ...


Jose and Hossein with the leader.


Big cheese!


Yorkville!


Having crossed the Red Sea, Moses takes us through the Yorkwilderness.


This civil engineer thought the fire station was cool.


Can the English dance? A May Day moment in Yorkville.


Yes ... they ... can!


The founder of the U of T. How do you say this guy's last name? Stra ... Stra ...


The U of T war dead, from WWII.


Didn't stay too long here in this too-hot room.


One for the road ... a class photo.

Here's me as the mean teacher who takes attendance from basement of the Toronto Reference Library. Here's those who showed up today:

1. Hossein
2. Siwen
3. Cindy
4. Joan
5. Vivian

Did I miss out anybody? Where's the rest of you?

Thanks to Siwen for that bottle of water, which was probably the spare for her baby, and to Joan for the Redoxon tablet, without which I probably wouldn't have been able to make it through the day!

Well, we got to see the top (5th) floor, beginning with a briefing by the Audio/ESL staff, continuing through the languages section, and finishing with the performing arts section and view over the Don Valley.

Next was the second level--we had to take the elevators with strollers in tow--where we saw the great OED (what's that?) and other reference resources. It was a little too difficult for the kids to keep up; so the stroller delegation headed for the main lobby to keep the little people amused.

Joan and I continued looking at the main stacks of the second level before heading for the basement--the newspaper section. Joan's quietly reading her paper while I'm driving the person watching youtube next to me crazy with this tap-a-tapping off a noisy keyboard.

So far so good ... we met up with everybody at 11:30 a.m. at the lobby, took our group photos, and then followed Donald to historic Yorkville and his alma mater, the University of Toronto. For the rest, we'll let the pictures tell a thousand words each.