Tomorrow will be the day when I leave Vancouver for Toronto where I have been living for 5 years. I have been here since the 29th October because my daughter was having a hip operation – her second one since last June. It was a partial replacement like the first one, but for this one, the pain has been much more intense and she is having a bit more problems to get up and walk around. She cannot drive for 6 weeks and for her, it is a sacrifice because she needs a car to get around.
She does exercises here in her apartment, but the rehab where she went for the first one is full right now, so she has to wait for their call hoping that it won’t be too long a wait.
I was more or less in the house all the time, but I did manage to go the museum to see an exhibit of Georgia O’Keefe which was very nice. I was in Santa Fe when her own museum opened in July in 1997, but still you never tire of looking at the paintings, her personal photographs of her daily life – it was very thorough .
And then , one should not miss going to the “Christmas Market” where the Canadian Artisans show their work. It was very interesting and worth seeing.
So tomorrow I will be saying good-bye to Vancouver which a very nice city especially when the sun is out and shining . From the centre of town, we can see the mountains, and for now, no snow yet . So, one has to hope that I will be returning in a few months .
