Christmas Market
Christmas Market hosts in Toronto each year, during preparations for Christmas. It takes place in the beautiful old part of the city – Distillery District. Today this area is transformed into a place of entertainment and recreation. This is a very popular area among wedding photographers and tourists. The fair is organized for fun and create a festive mood. A huge Christmas tree, decorations on the windows and doors of buildings and shops make this place colorful and festive. Many visitors to the fair look like costumed performances participants. All that creates an atmosphere of celebration and full of smiles, laughter and music.
Santa Claus with elves is always ready to pose for the image with young participants of the ceremony. Elves and angels entertain kids with the songs and competitions. The orchestra plays classical Christmas music. And of course, the Carolers gather funs around to create the Christmas spirit. The kids are happy to ride on the carousel and other attractions despite of the frost.
There is, of course, commerce component of the holiday. In numerous shops you can buy souvenirs, Christmas decorations, sweets, drinks, and hot chocolate. But for adults bars open outside and inside where you can drink beer or hot mulled wine.
Everybody welcome to the Distillery District Christmas Market from 10 am to 9 pm during the four weeks before Christmas.
White Christmas
Christmas is the main and most picturesque holiday of the year. A lot of people are waiting for that dreamy time with anticipation. It is a magic time with beautiful Christmas Trees, Santa Clause Parade, wonderful decorations everywhere, Christmas songs and carols. People are excited with the Christmas shopping to make gifts for their families, kids and loves. Everybody dreams of a White Christmas like in Irving Berlin song. But sometimes unexpected events overshadow that lovely holiday.
On the night of December 22 in Toronto freezing rain broke Christmas plans for many people. In a few hours trees and bushes covered with a thick crust of ice. Electrical lines and wires could not carry so heavy weight and start to brake. Trees fell down. City and Province of Ontario dived into the darkness. In the morning about 350 thousand people did not have power at their houses.
In everyday life we do not realize how we are dependent of electricity. If it happens to lose it there is a terrible sense of discomfort. But when it goes on for long hours and days the sense of feeling discomfort turn into disaster. In the wintertime that situation is getting worse because of lack of heat. And finally short and gloomy winter daylight drives people in state of depression. Such feelings were observed during the Christmas period in many places of Toronto.
Fortunately, not the entire city was in darkness, and people could move to their relatives, friends, and acquaintances.
City and provincial authorities and services actively worked on troubleshooting, but the damages were huge and many people did not have power until December 29. Even today, December 30, the day of publication of that post, about two and a half thousand people remain without electricity.
But the world around looked beautiful. Crystals on the trees and bushes were magic. When a few days later the sun came out everything was shine and sparkling.
Snow whirled and fluttered in the air and laid over the frozen ground.
Over the past few years White Christmas came to Toronto for the first time.
A little bit of Christmas
Yesterday was frosty day with heavy snow. Blizzard raged full day long. In one day city was covered with white coverlet. Through the window everything looked black and white. Frost decorated windows with beautiful drawing. Unlike that home Christmas decoration is warm and colourful.
World in your eyes 