I wish I had captured that Smile...

This incident always brings a smile on my face whenever I remember it. So thought of sharing it...

This happened while I was in toronto for couple of weeks.

We always planned our weekends, but this time we didnt plan it well. We thought of visiting 'Casaloma' (a Castle built by Sir Henry Pellatt) on saturday, as the public transport is less frequent on sundays. 

We started our journey on saturday morning not knowing how to get to castle. We some how knew that we could make it. Last time when we had planned for castle, we were lost :( ...its bcoz we were miss guided. But on the same day I remember an old guy who guided us to get to Casaloma. So remembering his words we started to move towards subway. We got down in St Claire station hoping it to be the right location that we had to go.

 
After getting off the subway, we had to get street cars to reach castle. We followed the directions shown inside the subway and could reach the street car station.
Street cars? I had not seen it before.. its nothing but trains on road.
Not knowing where to get down, we enquired with somebody in the car and got down at the right stop. We had to walk for a while to reach the castle. Calling it a castle, I had a great imagination about it.

It was a cold day. We walked about a km and reached the castle. Took a round of the castle praising the guy who had built and lived in it. But it was not up to my imagination of a castle.

We had to walk back the whole way to make it up to street cars and I was damn hungry....
It was hard. With the backpacks, we walked like old women with a hunch back and made it up to the main street. Reached Don mills station and found something to eat.

As we had some shopping left, we had to find a way to reach the shop that we were looking for. We took the subway to reach the Queens station. On reaching Queens, we had go to Sumach street. Without knowing which street car to take, we stood there for a while looking for someone to help us.

I was looking around for somebody who could guide me.. at last I found an old man. They are very helpful :). I caught this guy and showed him the map to help me reach my destination. He suggested which street car to take. I thanked him for helping us. His response was something like this "Its your luck dear... luck matters. If your luck was not good, you would not have come to me... its all your luck". He was not ready to accept my thanks . Again when I thanked him, he reapeated his words :). All he said was my luck was good :).  

Soon a street car came in and he asked us to step into it and said he will let us know when we arrive at destination. We got into the street car and after traveling for a while, an announcement came stating our stop name - Sumach Street. Before we could request for the stop, somebody had already done it for us. When I turned back to see who it was, it was him :), that old chap who guided us before :). He waved at me with a big SMILE on his face. I can never forget him and his smile. I wish I had captured that SMILE and i really mean it. I waved back at him and got down off the car.

We come across many people in life but we remember only few of them....