Vacation 2026 [Montreal-Quebec City]

           I can say this: traveling is very stressful and I found a way to mitigate this by accessing my iphone hotspot and using it on my iPad really does a heck of a lot of distracting for me so I found myself either catching up on YouTube videos or continuing on with the Discord build which isn't fully finished and I have other pressing matters like moving my screens and setup over and getting this all finalized as right now I am not recording anything new and hope to get it all finished soon so I can press forward.

           Anyways, basically did the same things in Quebec City but always nice to go back and visit and see family but this year we added in Montreal which we were there to have a night over as we split our time and didn't get time to look around much but we also went back and I got to see the Montreal Canadian's arena "Bell Centre" where they play which was really cool and we couldn't find the Forum as it was hard to find but that's OK. Anyways it was stressful trip and in the end and that is the first post of the day and I will talk to you all at 11 am EST.

Chris

Fiesta Week 2025!

              This week I went to 2 out of the 3 pavilions as I had a bit of a meltdown but least you guys are seeing 2 out of the 3 but here is my review on Fiesta Week 2025:

Polish Pavilion (Wednesday, June 18th, 2025): It is the closer out of the two pavilions near home but been here before and it was delicious. Might of been 2 times actually. However this time I had 5 perogies which had cheese and potato in it. Awesome as long as I have it with sour cream. 10 out of 10 on the Perogies. That wasn't just the only thing I got was a meat on a stick and soon as I pick it up, it fell apart which means it was cooked very well and very, very fresh. I am lost for words how to describe it but was very delicious.

Caribbean Pavilion (Club Carib) (Thursday, June 19th, 2025): One of my favorite evenings every, got to see some Caribbean entertainment, including dances from juniors, intermediate and senior groups for dancing and also the Steel Drums which I love those. I had Chicken Roti which had potatoes, Chicken in a wrap. I found it dry but that was the potatoes as we all know how potatoes are. It was very spicy. It was the curry that was spicy but still really good. Also I had a Jamaican Patty which was also delicious. 

               Those are the two I went to this year. I will most definitely going to the Greek Next year that is a wrap with this week's events till July 1st when I will be down at the lake for Canada, possibly. Anyways I will be going live this afternoon for an update stream both on FB/YouTube. 

Chris

Ukrainian and Polish Festival 2019!

          Obviously there was no blog but I had no time when I woke up to write something small and when I got home I was so tired, I cleaned up and was in bed pretty fast and up bright and early this morning. Anyways this morning I want to talk about the Ukrainian and Polish Festival. I want to start off with the Ukrainian Festival which we went to after the disaster of transit issues which I will talk about on a separate post tomorrow which is a post on itself technically. Anyways we got there safely and we actually did make it a little later then we wanted technically but we did miss the parade this year which was definitely a disappointment however we saw a preview of some of the entertainment that we were going to see and we did see some entertainment on the other side of the event over at Runnymede Street in Toronto. Anyways there was tons of options for food, there was rides there for the kids, they had hats from all the different countries including Ukraine, Poland and so forth. Now food wise we had the 8 Perogi, I had the cheddar and potato and my dad had the Cottage Cheese and Potato. However next year I want to split things so this way I can try the other one. The perogies were good, super soft, delicious and the onions very nicely caramelized. However 2 issues with the Perogi Pavilion. First issue they forgot my water we had to remind them and the second part was they forgot the sour cream which we paid for so I was not pleased and I think next year we will go elsewhere for our food and I wasn't pleased with the mistakes made.

 Now we traveled onto the Polish Festival and we actually were back on schedule which again I will talk about it tomorrow on the blog post about the mishap with the transit system as I said it is for a separate post tomorrow. So we got there and we walked down Roncesvalle which both Ukrainian and Polish were busy and I am happy to see quite the crowd and it is definitely getting busier each and every year that we are there. Always nice to see people indulging in the multi culture of the city of Toronto. So we walked around and we saw the donut place that we had dessert the one year yet we forgot to stop and get one again this year but always next year we will. I wanna have at least one dessert when it comes towards these festivals. We saw one stage with some Polka music playing and yes I almost wanted to dance but I didn't. Think I was in a bit of pain with my knee but the first real pain I've had in a while. Anyways we saw some more musicians under a tent followed by some dancing at the main stage. After that we had a beer at the beer tent which was a Polish Beer and my very first one ever. It was very smooth and it did leave an after taste but still good in the end. We continued to walk all the way down Roncesvalle to almost the end of the festival and headed back up. Finally we grabbed the first part of dinner which we split a Potato Pancake also known as Latke. We continued up further and we grabbed polish sausage on a bun which the bun was massive and funny fact that is the same place as last year so kind of funny in a way but worth it and we will be back in the very nearby future again as I took a picture of it to remind me where we were for the food. Overall the two festivals were really good minus those two issues at the Perogi Pavilion at the Ukrainian but overall still a fun filled day.

           



Chris