We stopped by this year's festival box office (in yet another new location, this year it's at an outdoor tent just east of the Osgoode station) and picked up tickets to 19 movies and vouchers for a yet to be named 20th show. Hopefully, number 20 winds up being the Coens' A Serious Man, but only time will tell.
With that chore out of the way, we stopped to shop for film festival apparel. Honestly, this year's selection was a little disappointing. The only long sleeve shirts were hoodies and sweaters, and quite expensive at that. We settled on a couple t-shirts.
Next on the agenda was a mid-afternoon meal. We'd been up since 4:00 CDT and little to eat but a couple packs of peanuts and a half a Clif bar each. Fortunately, the Queen Mother Cafe was a short walk from the box office. The Queen Mother has been my "home base" restaurant for years now. It's comfortable, the wait staff is friendly, the prices are reasonable, and they have a wide selection of beverages and tasty deserts.
The Queen Mum is not a Thai restaurant as such, but it does feature a few Thai dishes, and it was here that I was first introduced to Thai cuisine. Pad Thai was that magical first dish, but today I had the Khao Soy Gai, a scrumptious thin egg noodle dish with a slightly spicy curry sauce, chicken and Thai herbs & veggies. Maureen opted for the aforementioned Pad Thai. No wine with lunch today, as caffeine is necessary to maintain any sense of energy, so iced coffee it was. We'll be back for more before this trip is over.
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