This year (2023) has been “a special year”, as my daughter had her second son last september. So, it was difficult for her family to join us in France for Christmas. We decided to move all the family (almost all!) to Toronto instead! We had to find places to accomodate 6 adults, not too fare from where my daughter and her family are living… We succeeded, with the help of some luck!
For Christmas Eve dinner, we tried to keep the traditions alive, but we had to make with the Canadien environment! The goose became a turkey (or parts of a turkey!), the Bertillon ice cream became “a local ice cream”, the smocked salmon and blinis were as good as the usual ones, and we made (my grandson, my daughter and me) a chocolate bûche using a receipe coming from my mother… We had a really great time together!
The main drawback was that we all were looking forward for a white Christmas, but instead we had a wet Christmas :-)! Just before the end of the year, we had some snow, but very little…
We visited a few places in Toronto, mainly places where there were a lot of illuminations. The most stunning place was Casa Loma (https://casaloma.ca/).
Here are some photos taken during our trip:
On the way back, we took our traditional selfie at the airport:
To end up this short story, I would like to dedicate this drawing to the fantastic team of the department of Hematology at Saint Antoine Hospital, and in particular my wonderful graft doctor, to my anonymous stem cells donnor, and my family and friends: I love you all!
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