Cruising on King

Friday night was one of my favourite local events: Cruising on King. It’s only the second time I’ve actually been, with the first time being a couple years ago. The last two years I missed it for some reason so I made sure I didn’t miss it this time around.

I don’t know for sure how many vehicles were involved, but the parade from Victoria Park to King Street took a while, so there was a decent amount of cars and trucks to check out. Everyone taking part in the show started off in Victoria Park where people were free to get some close up views of the muscle cars, pick-up trucks and countless other gas-guzzling beauties before the trek to downtown started. We live just down the street from the park, so we were lucky that the parade of vehicles went right by our house. We stood on a neighbour’s driveway taking in the sights, sounds (and gas fumes) before walking up to King Street to see them parked up and down the road.

As mentioned earlier, it was only my second time at the show and this time felt like there was double the amount of people. That’s probably an exaggeration, but there were a ton of people downtown on Friday night. We did a slow walk east on King to see more cars and basically stopped when our stomachs told us it was time to eat. We were hoping to grab a bite at Holy Guacamole, but since they were closed, we were more than happy to substitute that with a visit to Northern Thai on Queen Street.

It was a pretty great night and it made me wish cruise night was held more than once a year. In fact, we were so into the event that I completely forgot about a poker night I was supposed to go to afterwards. By the time we got home at 10:30 it dawned on me that I missed it, but then realized that since I’m kind of very awful at poker, it was no big deal.