Monday 5/17:
I woke up and decided to take it easy. I had thought about cramming in a last minute sight, or walk around the Eaton Centre again, but I just decided to find breakfast somewhere on the street instead.
I headed in the vague direction that I remembered seeing Timothy's World Coffee, willing to give it a try mostly as a joke because "it's on the map!". It ended up being the last leg of the square I walked around my hotel, naturally.
It was very much like a Star Bucks. The cheese croissant was above average, the pain au chocolate was good, and the hot chocolate was excellent.
Afterwards, I checked out of the room and retraced my steps on the public transit system back to the airport. I thought it would be easier and cheaper to get back to the airport, then call Best Western for a shuttle than to take a $50 cab ride. It took 2.5 hours to get from the airport to downtown, but only 1.5 to get back. And this time I figured out how to pay for the subway, maybe it was just free on weekends. I waited about 30 minutes at the airport for the shuttle, and another hour and a half for my room to be made ready at Toronto.
The rest of the team trickled in an hour or so after I was set in, and then we headed to the office to set up the event. A few things went wrong/missing/etc. as always, and by the time we tracked things down and finished setting up what we could we were an hour late to the HP dinner with the Toronto team.
We went to Milestones, the same good restaurant that they had taken us to the two previous years. It took awhile to get a menu and order, since we had come late and the wait staff was busy with the rest of the party, but it was nice to sit down and enjoy a Molson or two.
For dinner, I had the lamb, which was the same dish I had last year. I felt a little bad not branching out, but that feeling quickly left as soon as the food arrived.
I got to know Dean and Kurt, two of the presenters, really well during dinner, which is a big reason why we have big team dinners.
After dinner I collapsed in my hotel room, knowing I would have to wake up earlier than I would like the following morning.
The Best Western was pretty horrible. Only 1 elevator worked and it was extremely noisy, and the room was blah. I wouldn't stay there again.
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