Team Canada on the way to Toronto in Fallowfield with all the luggage after a hectic Saturday morning packing up everything and now waiting for the train. Not everything is carried along the WCT and up the Rocky backcountry trails :-)).

We are going team up with Team Germany (2 of my sisters, and the husband of one as well as their kids) in Vancouver for the West Coast trail.

Once arrived in Toronto we looked for a dining place in walking distance of the Union train station. Margaret convinced me going for Ramen (first time since a long long while in San Jose that I was in a noodle soup place): Hokkaido Ramen Santouka

 I have to say that I liked the ramen served and the place itself very much (have to figure out if there a similar good places in Ottawa):

After dinner it was time to figure what to buy to eat on the train. We happened to walk past a Panera and bought some Danish and some bagels with chream cheese. Afterwards we looked for a sushi place I had dined at about 8 years ago when visiting Toronto to see the first Wagner ring cycle performed in Canada to buy several boxes of vegetable sushi and a vegie bento box for Margaret. The most memorable event on that past opera trip aside from the avocado salads I had back then in the sushi place and the opera itself was an unavoidable must attend conference call because one of my most valued team members in all of my Cisco time felt the need to inject some very hot air (or should I label it "a furnace blast") into the management chain during my absence to the point that my then superior was no longer in his "comfort zone". So I had to attend a "crises" call with the team and him that promptly run massively over to the point that I missed the first and maybe even the 2nd act of that nights opera and only saw the remaining acts after a break. I still shake me head every time I walk by this beautiful opera house in Toronto and think back about me sitting on the stairs inside and waiting for a break to get in: The "joys of management" if you are happy to run a team of intelligent beings. Needless to say that the "still valued team member" certainly will read this para and knows who I am talking about :-). Afterwards it was a waiting game

in the train station because the train left 2 hours late right at midnight. We were relative early in the queue buildup for the train which was an advantage when entering the train (I had not made a seat reservation or there was no seat reservation for escape fare class people).