Whenever Diane comes to Toronto, we like to celebrate her birthday which falls on September 10. After a cursory search of some good place to enjoy a Sunday brunch, we ended up back at Sassafraz. Most places were inconvenient location-wise, or closed on Sundays! We took Diane to Sassafraz for her birthday in 2001, and hated to make a return engagement, but at least they do a nice brunch. 
Of course, not even at Diane’s brunch can we escape the Film Festival as witnessed by this photo of Diane and Chris poring over the film schedule before ordering. As I mentioned the brunch at Sassafraz is delicious, and we certainly weren’t disappointed. I have to make special note of this delectable desert that Diane and Scot ordered. Everything on that plate is edible, including the little candy star.
More festival antics ensued at Sassafraz as Scot and Diane take a moment to recreate a scene from the ubiquitous TIFF promo that screens before every film. This year’s is particularly bad, and I often wonder if the people responsible for selecting the promo stop to think that many people will be seeing this brief clip a couple dozen times in a short span of time?
From Diane’s brunch, we forged out on our day of film, which culminated for four of us with the second of the highly anticipated Canadian films, this one being Sean Garrity’s LUCID. Unfortunately, this one didn’t quite live up to our expectations. Pictured right is Sean Garrity, the film’s director and the cast. We did enjoy our first celebrity sighting as Paul Gross (WILBY WONDERFUL, “Slings & Arrows”) and his wife Martha Burns (“Slings & Arrows”) watched the film in the row in front of us.