Lots of stuff happening in the city this long weekend. The Canadian International Air Show is on all weekend, with flights by the Canadian Forces’ Snowbirds , the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, to name but a few.
It’s also Frosh Week, so there are students marching through the downtown university streets with their Frat House signs and banners, chanting and singing as they’re walking along, staking out their territory.
El Franco and I went for breakfast in Little Italy yesterday and discovered we were in the middle of preparations for the annual three-day Italian festival for this Labour Day weekend. The morning was beautiful and sunny, so we sat outside on the patio at Cafe Diplomatico at College and Clinton.
The waiting staff from the cafe—and from other, nearby restaurants—were dividing their time between seeing to customers and placing tables and chairs out in the closed-off, pedestrian-only streets in anticipation of the arrival of the festival-loving crowds.
As we were dining al fresco, we saw a convoy of vintage Cinquecentos and other smaller cars file by at the intersection of College and Clinton. The drivers/owners lined their cars up along the side of College Street, displaying them for all to see. It was quite nostalgic to see them (and almost all of them were in surprisingly good condition), so I took some photos with my archaic phone camera:
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