Every year for the past 11 years, Rob and I go to a Christmas concert called the Festival of Carols.

This year I was disappointed to hear that Rob had to be out of town on business on the night they were performing.

I decided to ask Zach to accompany me to the concert. This is his last “official” Christmas prep season, so I have been using that as a bit of a bargaining chip. He agreed to go without too much cajoling!

We decided for dinner to head out to a nearby restaurant that served schnitzel. We both were feeling like having it – reminiscent of our trip to Germany two years ago.

We first walked through this cool little “Tunnel of Glam” that is in Toronto right now.

We had a nice dinner, and then laughed at some fellow restaurant clients who were elderly and clearly going to the same concert we were:)

The concert was nice; not as Christmasy as usual. It was a different conductor this year.

Zach thoroughly enjoyed it as the pictures show…

I had a great night – and I’m glad he was a sport and accompanied me. I like to remind him how much he will be missing things like this next year when he is off on his own:))