Just a pre Toronto update
Today Manchester united was playing against Inter and I was on the treadmill the whole game running nonstop, and reaching 7Miles (11.2K)!!!!:)!!!!! Making this my new personal best ever, passing the half way point on the race preparations (though still only indoors). Manchester winning was a great bonus for the evening.
I spent my evening with busy fundraising and arranging hikes
Today I approached Manchester united football club, another Jewish federation, I have the number of the JCC manager for tomorrow, my linked in contacts and the entire hitzig family (my grandma’s family)
16% raised so far but still to slow and too far behind since I didn’t raise 1 cent from any stranger. More updates on that soon.
So back to Toronto
after the shoe museum we went to the Toronto museum- we had about 2 hours so we hurried in and were told we had to check in our bags and coat. Bags are free, but coats are 1$ - so like good tourists we put the coat in the bag and hand it in. didn’t work, they still wanted the $. So we went in and headed for the 4th floor (here a floor is a floor, as our feet told us later), directly to the Egyptian exhibition, where they had a display of the book of the Dead.
The true story is that they had it from 90 years ago, bought by the museum founder close to a century ago, then placed in the store rooms again. Imagine- after being hidden for 3500 years, they hide it again, by mistake of course- so they restored the old papyrus and placed it on display.
And now I am more aware of old Egyptian gods, with the correct names and appearance – and I gladly noticed a demigod I had no idea existed.
This is Ammit demonstrating how to place 2 coins of the boat man on the way to the other side
This is Amit in human form
and this is the demigod Ammit with a humble servant
Below is the translation from the book of the dead on the newly found god
For those of you who do not know the human form of Amit – he is one of the original blogilisters and a very good friend- who will accompany me this summer in Alaska J
So- we read the book of the dead- which is basically a set of scrolls to guide them on how to handle the dead, how to pray to avoid the soul from going to the wrong place, how the souls is being judge, introduction of the gods and other such death related subject. The Egyptian called it the book of the living, or something- since the living used it- the dead could not for some reason.
We breezed through the Cyprus period and the Ukrainian display and continue with the Egyptians- and see lots of interesting ancient jewelry , scarabs and mummies- these mummies also don’t jump at us, but they look real- so creepy photos attached.
The middle eastern display is such a cliché- full of weapons- is this the CNN sponsored display? No wonder they all think we are just fighting- we do other stuff like… wait, we have election twice a year-which is another form of fighting, or haggle(another form) or swear at the players of the other team, the players from our team, the current coach, the previous coach, and the one that will come tomorrow, and of course the judges - also fighting – oh yes we grow great fruit- unless you count biological pesticides as fighting…- lucky there are demi gods the handle this.
From there we saw some glorious butterflies and bugs and headed for the nature of diamonds display- which was more of an info on diamonds then actual diamonds, which was very interesting. They also had under a very big vault – the world 3rd largest diamond ever found. We found ourselves checking the security measures and noticing other would be thieves doing the same.
The day did not end at that- we went to the main attraction of the day- “we will rock you” the musical by queen- which was o.k but the songs were great.
After the show, we went hungrily to find food and all we found was another place the serves Shawarma, actually…. There were other places, but I have a shawarma crave for the last month. This place didn’t have photos of Jordan, but the shawarma was better- or was I hungrier?
We walked back after a long day- and accidently passed by some nice looking place, and stopped since they had a rest room. The place looked good and we stayed and had that great big shake, banana split and a mai tai. We split the banana split but the “killer” shake was too much, so I had the rest for breakfast.
So after this very interesting and dietetic day , it was time to tell Toronto good night
Some cities I dislike right away like detrotoilate Budapest or Venice (yes I didn’t enjoy Venice very much), and others I like right away (Amsterdam, Prague, san Marino, asisi , Verona , san diego) I don’t know exactly why , Budapest and Prague look generally the same, yet one is charming and the other is Budapest. Toronto was on the like side.
It is the same as any other US major city , just nicer- could it be the fact that temperatures are in Celsius? The traffic light are on the sides as they should and not on wires in the middle? The speed is in kilometers?, they have lots of good Shwarma? The city is open at night? And when you want to turn left, all the roads will lead to the right(just like tel aviv), they say baataa and not baita – I guess it’s the best of a US city with Israeli features. So Toronto is still on the road map- we will probably go there again in the summer- and maybe stay for more than 1 day, we have not even begun to explore it.
The Toronto chapter ends and it’s time to say goodbye
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