BEN

We try to have a tradition in our family where whoever has a birthday gets served breakfast in bed. However it was particularly challenging to honor that this morning as I am leaving in a few hours for Toronto with our two older sons for a karate tournament and I am scrambling to get all the loose odds and ends done. I’d meant to buy Daniel some muffins and a coffee to go at Tim Horton’s but it looks like that will have to wait another day. Sorry babe!

It’s my first time in Toronto (or as the natives there call it, TO). i wish it were more of a sight-seeing trip but we’re really just there for the tournament. I don’t mind because my favorite part about visiting a big city like New York, Paris or Washington DC has always just been walking down the main boulevards and immersing myself in the feel and smell and sound of the place. So I will take Nicholas and Michael and explore Yonge street. The weather is going to be a record high so I think we’ll have a good time.