Well, actually, it was more like I knew exactly where I was and knew exactly where I wanted to be, it just took a bit of work to reconcile the two. After work on Thursday I drove downtown to meet up with Joanne, Mary, and some other people for a dinner to celebrate Amy’s birthday.
I had some MapQuest directions to the Indian restaurant we were going to, but asked a coworker’s advice as someone who actually does the commute everyday. He suggested getting off the Gardiner an exit earlier and take Lakeshore which would have lighter traffic; the next thing he mentioned sounded like a complicated way of saying turn left onto Bathurst, but as I found out, you can’t do that. I now understand what we was talking about, but it’s a moot point as a big stretch of Bathurst is all torn up. So, I had to do some detouring once I found streets I’m familiar with, but I backtracked and got there without too much difficulty.
So the lessons learned: Toronto driving is messed up, and construction project managers really should inform MapQuest of their plans.
Dinner wasn’t too bad, but I’ve definitely had better Indian dishes. Mary and I went with Amy & Joanne back to their place where a game of Settler’s of Catan, of all things, broke out. It’d been a while since either Mary or I played, and it was totally new to Joanne. I sucked big time, and Mary won just as it was getting late and I needed to head back.
I got to visit Amy and Joanne when I was in town for the Mt. Sinai interview in March, but it’s been forever since I last saw Mary. Hopefully now that I’m closer it’ll be easier to keep in contact with people in the TO area. It’ll also be nice at Rob’s wedding next month to get together as a big group again.
Oh, and even leaving downtown at 11:30 at night doesn’t mean you get to avoid traffic. Silly city.
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