To Toronto and back!

My goodness, where to start? It's been a long time since I had sufficient time or motivation (not to mention internet access) to update.
So here goes, as best as I can remember (so this'll probably be a disorganized and hard to follow narrative; you have been warned).
After the first weekend in Put-in Bay we anchored off of Kelly's island for a few days doing maintenance and had a swim call, put on the Niagara's new headrig net, partied in it, etc. good times were had.
Then we went back to PIB for Pirate Fest, and I got to meet up with three entirely flamablamablous people; Grant, Ebeth and Ebeth'sFriendBen (also known as Ben). It was great to see them and visit, call other friends to gloat that we were together, try on goofy hats....in short, it was epic.

Then after other sundry brief stops, we locked down the Welland Canal into lake Ontario and headed to Toronto for the first stop of ASTA (American Sail Training Association)'s Tall Ships' Challenge.
Toronto was cool, I didn't see more than the main road where the other ships and showers were, but it was good.
Seeing tons of tall ships in one place was amazing, and I'm so excited for all the other ports.
The parade of sail out of Toronto was exciting, boats EVERYWHERE, and then sailing along getting ready for canals and looking out and seeing other sailing ships on the horizon, at one poit I was out on the headrig furling the jib with Claire, looked over to the Pride of Baltimore II under sail and just had one of those total "my life is so epic" moments. It was good.
We locked up either yesterday or the day before, I honestly don't know which, but it was a very, very long day. It's been a lot of very, very long days recently.

Today is prepping to go to Cleveland, so a brief overnight here in Erie. I'm on the laundry crew, so we're waiting for the laundry and I have WiFi, yay!