Hot & Filthy, In The City.....

Today was the hottest day ever, in the history of the Earth. Well, maybe not, but it really seemed like it. I had one shoot today, at 6pm, then I was heading to Toronto, so I had to check out of my hotel by noon, then entertain myself for 6 hours. Great :-/ Well, I had a few stores that I wanted to check out, and of course, I needed to eat, but none of that would take 6 hours to do. I started with getting a coffee &  a pastry, and that took up a good 20 minutes, lol. I drove down one of the main drags, and found a neat store, ReImagine. They had a lot of really cool retro items, all at really good prices. I wanted to buy everything, but it would have been difficult to squish a couch into my car ;) I walked away with 2 drinking glasses & a metal thing "pot holder" type thing.  I walked in & out of a few more stores on the street, and found an adorable pair of Jeffrey Campbell "flatforms". They were odd looking, and neat, so of course, I had to buy them, lol.

Nikki Sixx was checking in, as I was checking out....

I got back into my sweltering car, and drove to my next shopping destination, Just vintage store. The shop was cute, the owner was sweet & chatty, and I walked away with a vintage turban (I'm dying to wear it!) & a vintage pair of high-waisted yellow panties, original tags still on. Next order of business, was food!


Some cool installation art...

I found a place to eat, called Spot. It looked inexpensive, healthy, and they had wifi, so I could waste time on the internet. Of course, the place was so big, and the ceilings so high, that they didn't have air conditioning :( The only outlet that was open was at a window seat, so I sat in the sun & melted even more, for about an hour. The sun was so hot that it actually wilted my salad before I was able to eat it. I still had a few more hours to kill, so I decided to just drive around in my air conditioned car. This day kinda sucked, lol. By the time my shoot time rolled around, I was sweaty, grubby & just all around kinda nasty. My shoot was cool, but we only shot for about 2 hours, instead of the 3 that we were supposed to because I had about zero energy left. Ah well, I packed up all of my things, and headed to the Great White North.