# 38 YORKVILLE
Mingle with ladies who lunch, shop in exclusive boutiques and take in some history in the city’s chicest neighborhood.
DATE: Friday, July 9, 2010.
TIME: 4:25pm - 7:09pm
After a crazy hot heat wave, it’s nice that the weather is much more comfortable for our walk. Today we’re exploring Yorkville, choosing this walk more out of convenience than anything. Despite going to school at UofT, living and shopping around here (I should clarify – shopping on Bloor and SOUTH of bloor) I’m not as familiar with the area covered on the walk as you’d expect. So I’m interested to see what sites the cards have picked for us to visit. If I were to think of notable places in Yorkville to visit, it would include a) Cumberland Theater b) the Toronto Reference Library (though that might just be out of the borders) c) our crepe place and d) some of the pretty houses in the neighborhood.
"Mingle with ladies who lunch, shop…"… i do neither of these activities when I’m in Yorkville! Like Mon, I’m usually in Yorkville to check out a movie @ the Cumberland… besides that I’m hardly in the area. In my university days, I used to get off at Bay station to then go to the Chapters before music class. I remember once when leaving that Chapters, I bumped into Jimmy Fallon. I think he was shooting that film with Queen Latifah.. I can’t remember the name. But yeah, my eyes widened in seeing him and that when he saw me, he quickly looked away… I wasn’t gonna get all fan crazy over him. He just surprised me. Anyhow, I have some fond memories in that Chapters… too bad it’s now a Winners (although… we did get those tickets to the Bata shoe museum from there). But I digress… on we go.
Hair is already a bit frizzy with the humidity and about to get worse!
I don’t remember how much product I put in my hair that day, but it probably wasn’t enough to keep the frizz down.
Even before we get to the first venue, I stumbled on the sidewalk – resulting from the combination of the uneven sidewalk and my own questionable ability to walk- which caused my sandal to strap to break. Thus making the walk a bit slow.
Really?! That was there? I thought that was later on the walk!
Hmmm… I think it was here…?
#1. Yorkville Park
A "conceptual" park. The card orders us to look for the 13 Canadian "landscapes" arranged on the footprint of historical Victorian row houses."
Conceptual is right! We had a hard time distinguishing what each landscape was and just didn’t bother. We were also quite confused because some "landscapes" looked an awful lot like another. But after reaching the other side of the park, we come across with a plaque with a labeled diagram to help us out.
The aforementioned plaque.
Notice something? Another mistake of the cards! The card says there are 13 landscapes, but the plaque clearly indicates there is only 12.
Tsk, Tsk… but are you really surprised at this point?! I wonder if we made cards with a list of walks, how many mistakes we’d have. Mon, you’re editor!
I. Pine Grove
II. Prairie Wildflower Gardens
Oops! My extra long shirt is already coming untucked.
Alma on a rock on the edge of the Prairie Wildflower Garden. At the time, we weren’t sure if these rocks were a landscape on their own…
So this is part of it? Who knew… hence the face!
