I haven’t really been keeping up with the journal here because of obvious reasons. I have just got back from Toronto where another game designer and I attended a huge festival in the anticipation of the upcoming release of our Video Game. I had a great time, It had been a long time since I have poked my head outside of the building and saw actual human beings. We stayed in a very upscale area of Toronto called Yorkville. The first night Rudy and I got there we walked about 3 miles down a street called Church Street to the Pantages Hotel to pick up VIP passes for the event the next day. Little did we know that the walk was going to be 3 miles, and in the weirdest neighborhood in Toronto. Church Street is the gay area of Toronto, and they are “WAY” out of the closet if you know what I mean.
After we got to the hotel and got our badges we decided to find a nice restaurant where we could get something nice to eat. As Rudy said, “I didn’t come all the way to Toronto to eat at McDonalds”. During our dinner we met a very nice waitress that hooked us up with a waiter that was going to direct us to the nightlife. He waxed philosophic of a recent haircut in an area of Yorkville where he received a great haircut and then sauntered his way across the street to a small piano bar filled with tall, blonde and hit Russian women. Rudy and I looked at each other and it was agreed that what man in his right mind could turn down hot Russian women. After scribbling a haphazard map on a napkin we were off for our 3 to 4 mile walk in the 99% humidity and oppressively hot Toronto night to find our hot Russians. After stumbling around trying to find this place for the better part of maybe 45 minutes, we did manage to run smack-dab right in the middle of this Russian piano bar.
At the onset of arriving at 111 Yorkville, we were very impressed with this outdoor sidewalk piano bar. From this vantage point you could see just about the entire town come down the street. Most of those people by the way were beautiful local women. As Rudy and I were seated, we were inundated with some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Our waitress was a drop dead gorgeous woman from Romania, whom had had some Visa problems and was a recent runaway from Washington DC. Aside from her beauty, and pleasant demeanor, she was a fireball of energy and within minutes had us drinking something called absinthe boom. I’m not exactly sure what it was other then Absinthe and soda. After she dropped the Absinthe shot in the soda, she then covered the glass with a napkin and proceeded to slam down the glass on our table. It almost made the glass look like a glass of bubbling alka-seltzer. Rudy proceeded to drink down the entire glass in one shot. I myself took my time; I’m all about pacing myself. Needless to say that Rudy and I had a lot of drinks, and saw no less then 2000-3000 walk by on the street past us. We had a good seat to the action that was Toronto after dark.
Ill finish the rest of this later, as for now, lunch is over and I need to get back to work.