Mmmm.... maple-y
Jan. 2nd, 2005 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seasleepySo, I'm in Canada now.
It's nice. Definitely colder than Texas. But I find it a lot more comfortable to have confirmation that it's January by walking outside (as opposed to College Station, where a day in January could quite easily be 70+ and you could be wandering around in shorts). Apparently it's unseasonably warm right now here though (it was supposed to get up to 47 today, and it was raining).
Today, we were planning to go visit Jerry's family, but freezing rain and fog ended up keeping us here in Hamilton, and so we went and wandered around a mall here which had very few stores I actually recognized but did have a Steak Escape. Yum. And then we went to the previously mentioned "huge" grocery store (well....it was big, but on the scale and style of Market Street in Amarillo) and bought food and Kinder Surprise eggs. Apparently Jerry's one caveat about something they don't have there -- electronics -- was indeed incorrect as they do actually have a little electronics section in the middle of the store. And then we returned back to the apartment, had some dinner, crashed some cars (on Burnout 3, which I've decided is like Megarace with a lot more game attached and better graphics), and watched some TV.
Tomorrow, we're going to go down to Toronto, go up the CN Tower, go to Sam's (the late-night record shop) and some other places. And then we're going to Dave and Buster's to eat out with a few people.
It's nice. Definitely colder than Texas. But I find it a lot more comfortable to have confirmation that it's January by walking outside (as opposed to College Station, where a day in January could quite easily be 70+ and you could be wandering around in shorts). Apparently it's unseasonably warm right now here though (it was supposed to get up to 47 today, and it was raining).
Today, we were planning to go visit Jerry's family, but freezing rain and fog ended up keeping us here in Hamilton, and so we went and wandered around a mall here which had very few stores I actually recognized but did have a Steak Escape. Yum. And then we went to the previously mentioned "huge" grocery store (well....it was big, but on the scale and style of Market Street in Amarillo) and bought food and Kinder Surprise eggs. Apparently Jerry's one caveat about something they don't have there -- electronics -- was indeed incorrect as they do actually have a little electronics section in the middle of the store. And then we returned back to the apartment, had some dinner, crashed some cars (on Burnout 3, which I've decided is like Megarace with a lot more game attached and better graphics), and watched some TV.
Tomorrow, we're going to go down to Toronto, go up the CN Tower, go to Sam's (the late-night record shop) and some other places. And then we're going to Dave and Buster's to eat out with a few people.
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Date: 2005-01-03 05:11 am (UTC)Oh, and make sure to go to the Danforth while you're in Toronto... it's a BNL reference, and on top of that, it's a really neat area... basically "Greektown", though there's a lot of Asian influence there, too. Plus, it's possible to get there from downtown by crossing the Bloor Street Viaduct, another BNL reference.
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Date: 2005-01-03 06:30 am (UTC)you're about...ohh 30 minutes away from me right now ;) The weather today sucked ASS but rain melts away snow and that is a good good thing!
Enjoy T.O. tomorrow - there's a lot of neat shops along Queen Street West (including the infamous LUSH cosmetics if you guys have time.
See you in a week!
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Date: 2005-01-03 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-03 05:34 pm (UTC)