Toronto 2

Hello again,

I’m going to try and write every couple weeks on this, so watch this space – hopefully every entry will then only be short and I won’t keep avoiding it!

If you are looking for details on Alison’s trip, I’m sorry to disappoint, but she will do her own separate entry in the coming weeks. Her top of the line waterproof camera couldn’t cope with the super fun Alison was having and got water damaged – hence it needs to be repaired. Alison will provide an entry once she has her photos to compliment her blog. However, she had an amazing trip and she got home safely.

I ended up getting a job at Tony’s work ‘Pi Media’ it wasn’t exciting or high paying but it stopped me from spending and kept me out of trouble. I was working in a warehouse mainly moving furniture in and out of trucks – I feel as though I have definitely mastered the art. My Pi Media experience only lasted 2 weeks though, as I decided to move on to bigger and better things.

I had a couple of good quality ‘boys nights’ while Alison was away, I headed out with Tony, and friends, to a couple of good spots and went a little crazy – slipping down the stairs in my snow drenched shoes in front of what seemed to be a thousand people was definitely a low-light, but rocking it out with a cover band playing the Beetles was awesome. Luciano and I seemed to hop to 10+ clubs looking for the right one, but we never actually found it, but as they say it’s not the destination, it’s the journey – and we had a top night.

The cottage: just before Alison and got back, Craig, Tony and their brother Alex decided to travel north to Craig’s cottage for a weekend of bonding.

5:40pm We headed up on Friday night battling the traffic whilst watching Wedding Crashers on Craig’s 2 inch screen.

7:25pm We stopped off at Wendy’s for food on the way up - and I was persuaded to tackle 2 of the ¾ pound triple cheeseburgers, it took every ounce of strength to not vomit all over the restaurant and then the car. But I got them down, and that is where they stayed.

8:10pm We continued on our journey.

10:15pm We finally arrived. We then had to trek through waist deep snow to get up the driveway and I was nominated to carry a 35kg coffee machine, along with my bag, and snow boots (that’s right, I carried my snow boots in my hand whilst wearing running shoes in waist deep snow).

10:25pm By the time I was at the door I was sweating like I’d just run a marathon.

10:27pm We discovered the heating was not working.

11:20pm An hour of fiddling with the heating system and no luck, we called the repair man and decided to test the water.

11:21pm Apparently Niagara falls had temporarily moved to Craig’s cottage basement. So this meant – no water, no heating.

11:25pm Back on the road Toronto bound.

1:30am Back in Toronto and ended up going back to Craig’s and watching a movie.

4:30am Fell asleep just in time to get up at 8am to get Alison from the airport.

It was quite a laugh, so I can’t complain – hopefully we’ll get back up to the cottage soon and stay for longer than hour.

The following morning Alison arrived home so I met her at the airport and we headed home. She was glad to be home but sad to have left Brazil at the same time. It took a couple days to settle back in, but now she’s ready to venture out again.

I worked this past week and Alison manned the apartment. Throughout the week though we finally got to head out to a Maple Leafs game. Although all tickets were sold out many months in advance, we went along hoping to snatch some tickets from a scalper, and we were not disappointed. There were SEVERAL scalpers trying to dish out tickets and we were able to snatch some up below cost which was great! However they screwed us when we got inside - $14 for a beer; robbery! But we had a great time, decent seats, Maple Leafs won and I can now die happy.

Friday night and we headed out with our friends Philli and Jen, Trent, Leigh and Jacqueline; destination – Medieval Times. You’re going to have to check out the photo’s for this one, because words cannot explain the awesome that was Medieval Times. In short, it’s a dinner and show with knights and horses. We got to wear cardboard crowns, and eat with our hands. It was definitely a place that needs to be visited with children, or drunk, we choose option 2 and hence had a great time. Afterwards the whole team headed back to our apartment where we drank and reminisced and pondered how I somehow had acquired a sword with flashing lights.

With Alison’s excitement to travel still strong, we decided to venture out of Toronto temporarily to see a bit more of Canada. So as of tomorrow we shall be heading east of Toronto to Montreal for a few days followed by Quebec City and then to Ottawa. We haven’t booked much and are just going to take it as it comes. So we are looking forward to our bus ride first thing tomorrow!