When your 11.5-year-old son leans over 20 minutes into a musical and says, “Mom, this is so cool,” and your 50-year-old brother-in-law announces “this was better than Wicked!” at intermission (which he’d seen on Broadway), and your mother-in-law calls your husband the next day in tears because she just loved it all so much, you…
A Christmas Carol + Ontario’s ultimate Christmas village
We’re packing up for the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake again soon — this time to see A Christmas Carol! Although I’ve never read the Dickens classic, I’ve seen the original 1951 movie several times and watched Scrooged with my kids in recent years. These movies have been part of my own Christmas tradition for as…
The perfect family day out in Niagara-on-the-Lake
I’ve been coming to the Niagara region since I was a toddler. And while I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched the power of Niagara Falls come down across Table Rock and dump into the pool below, I’ve only visited Niagara-on-the-Lake once. Sans kids. But with its quaint downtown strip, historic buildings, thriving…