Anyone who knows me well knows that one of my favourite places in the entire world is the Royal Ontario Museum, aka the ROM. Anyone who knows me well also knows that one of my favourite activities in the world is knitting.

Last Friday, those two things combined in a most excellent way.

I have a new friend who is a PhD student at the ROM, and is able to get a guest in for free. He (yes, he) asked me to teach him how to knit, so we agreed to meet for a knitting lesson at the ROM. After grabbing a quick bite to eat in the cafe, we navigated to a corner of India, where we settled into a pair of comfy armchairs next to Buddha, who was in the process of enlightenment, according to his card. My friend picked up knitting in no time, and we sat and happily knitted away while ROM visitors wandered by no doubt wondering what in heck we were doing there.

We've decided to make knitting at the ROM a regular institution. This time we're heading for the top floor, where I think we might knit in Textiles, which seems appropriate. I would love to knit in Dinosaurs, but dinosaurs apparently don't go in much for armchairs.

Knitting, at the ROM, with a guy, seems like a trifecta of awesomeness which simply cannot be topped. I'm pretty stoked about it.