A rainy day. We woke up and it was pouring. Unfortunately neither of us thought of packing an umbrella. We were supposed to meet Victor and Malgosia at the Royal Conservatory of Music at 10 am, but they changed the venue to Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) at 11 am because of the rain. We got on the metro and bought an umbrella at the newsstand before getting out of the station so we could walk to the gallery. Traditionally, we had breakfast at Tim Horton’s and then met V&M at AGO. It’s an interesting building, a combination of an old Victorian mansion with a very modern addition by Frank Gehry. Together we saw a special exhibition on art and theater and then we wandered around the gallery while M&V had coffee in the members’ lounge. When we got out it stopped raining. We had lunch in a Turkish pancake place/gallery across the street and then walked through a different part of the city – University of Toronto campus. We parted at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). We briefly considered going there, but the lines were around the block because Fridays are half-price and maybe because they had an exhibition of terracotta warriors from China, which we both saw in their natural environment in Xian. In the evening we went to dinner at Terroni Italian restaurant, a very popular lively and noisy place with good southern Italian food..
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