Firsts

Just got back from a tiny boat 'cruise' of Toronto. It was quaint with a small party of about a hundred people. Lake Ontario was still. Looking off the deck of the boat, we were surrounded by the blackness of water and the dotted lights of the Toronto skyline.

I don't have a nightview of the skyline (I didn't have my camera with me today :O) but here is what it looks like in the day:



Mingling with the crowd we shifted our feet to the sporadic mix of songs played in the background. At one point "Ice Ice Baby" came on which ignited a conversation piece about music from 'back in the day'. God I felt old.

It was 1990 and Vanilla Ice's 'To The Extreme' was my very first CD. It was some time before I could play it though because we didn't have a CD player yet. Both were extremely expensive having just been invented, or rather having just been put on the market for commercial sale.

Even though my taste in music has changed, I have an itch to search for that CD and play that funky music. Reminiscing about that and other firsts, I shall sleep with a smile on my face. One, for the happy memories that most my 'firsts' stir and; Two, for the funny, silly, I can't believe I did that/wore that/said that/acted like that memories that are racing through my mind right now.

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