My mother is a practicing mormon and I’m very happy for her to have found this community. I myself have no use for a religion but I’m certainly glad that hers brought her down to the Greater Toronto Area this weekend. She and her church members have to make a pilgrimage to a temple in Brampton once a year. I received her email saying that she’d like to spend a day with me, and I was elated to prepare for it.

She mentioned that she wanted to visit the CN Tower, so it would be the central theme of the day. After picking her up at the temple, we went for a good lunch and also went back to let her see my living area. Being a mother, she immediatley pointed out what was deficient in my living setup, and we immediately had to go to Walmart to purchase the missing necessities. It was near 3pm when we were done, so we started heading downtown and I took her on her first Toronto subway ride to Union Station. We took the SkyWalk to the CN tower and enjoyed the scenary and tour for the next couple of hours. One of the highlights was taking my mother on the “simulator” ride. She had never been on one before and it was absolutely fun for her.

It was a perfect match. I had never been to the CN tower myself at all so to be able to spend a day with her doing these activities was quite like heaven. My mother remarked that it would be too bad for any of my future girlfriends, since I wouldn’t be able to capture that first time feeling using the CN tower on a date again. We went all the way up to the skypod of the CN tower, the tallest observation deck available to the public in the world. When I first stepped out and saw the view of the CN tower observation deck beneath me along with the skydome, I was pretty scared. I do have a little fear of heights but I did adjust to the view within minutes.

I had obtained free tickets to the Toronto Blue Jays vs Boston Red Sox baseball game so we left CN Tower to go the Roger Center (formely known as SkyDome) as people were filling in the seats. I’ve been baseball games before, but never had as good a seat as I did this time around, just off the 1st base in row 15. I taught mother the rules and how to watch baseball. She was very quickly knowledgable and calling the strikes and balls herself! Foul balls flew close to the left and right of us, and I have to admit, I’m not a fan of watching baseball, on TV or live. But this game was something else! It helped that the Jays played very well against the World Champs and jumped out in front with an exciting 6-0 first inning. Absolutely Thrilling!

We left at the seventh inning stretch, to beat the traffic, have dinner and rest up for the night at my place. The Jays went on to win 8-2. I feel very proud to have shared this day with mother.