Ondrej & Ivona Visit

Ondrej and Ivona flew in from Calgary to watch the U2 show with us. He was the one that was able to get us the 4 tickets in the red zone - his patience paid off. We picked them up Wednesday night from the airport and the next day we drove down to the stadium to pick up the tickets. Once we got them, we drove around the block to check out the lineup for general admission on the floor and it was freakin' long. It was really nice to know we didn't have to stay in a long line all day and still have a great view of the show. We drove though downtown on our way to find a spot to eat lunch and showed them where they filmed Much Music. We had lunch at a nice sandwich and coffee shop on an outside back patio. From there we headed over to Kensington Market. The girls found matching Bono shirts which they ended up wearing to the show of course. Before the concert, we decided to get another bite so we went to Jack Astors. The show was amazing as I mentioned in the blog below.
The next day we headed to a trendy part of town called The Danforth because there's a lot of shopping and Greek restaurants on a street called Danforth. There's so many Greek restaurants on it. We went to one Ivona remembered going to about 8 years earlier. Darcie and I had heard of The Danforth but had never gone so it was neat to check out. We'll definitley be going back to eat at some other restaurants. After eating, we checked out a huge candy store that had every kind of candy and chocolate bar you could think of - even candy I thought they didn't make anymore that I used to buy as a little kid. It brought back memories.
We headed home afterwards because we were planning a party for our friends in Toronto to meat Ondrej and Ivona. Mandy, Mason, Derek, Stacey, Vanessa, and Mark (have cottage that we went to) and Ondrej and Ivona were all there. We had a lot of fun hanging out and eating lots.
The next day was Saturday which was when Ondrej and Ivona were leaving so before they left, we headed downtown again and ate some lunch at a nice restaurant on the boardwalk and walked through downtown doing some shopping along the way.
It was great to see them and spend all that time with them. We really enjoyed having them as our guests and had a really good time going to see U2 and doing all the eating and shopping that we did.
Me trying on a small jacket that everyone thought I'd look funny in. They were right.

A shot of us sitting on our private seats in the red zone before the show

Relaxing and eating lunch Thursday

Darcie and Ivona trying on army hats at a store in Kensington Market

Darcie enjoying the selection of cheese at Kensington Market